Sublime is a program to edit, spot and render subtitles for DVD authoring, mainly for Apples great authoring suite DVD Studio Pro. You can directly use QuickTime movies and even compressed MPEG2 videos with speed and accuracy youve never archived before.
Seamlessly integrates into DVD-Studio Pro
DVD Studio Pro is a great authoring application but only offers rudimental subtitling features. Sublime perfectly supplements and integrates with DVD Studio Pro, filling the gap that DVD Studio Pro leaves in this area.
Supporting PAL and NTSC videos, Sublime offers composing and export of graphic and text subtitle files. Using Sublimes bitmap renderer, you will never have kerning problems again and can even use antialiased fonts and other highly customizable text styles.
Realtime Transcription and Spotting
One of the biggest advantages of Sublime is its user-interface: With its intuitive arranger, you can see video and audio and edit subtitles all in one view and workflow. Subtitles can be easily put to their place via drag and drop or keyboard shortcuts, if you prefer working with them. With the subtitle list editor you always have an overview about all your titles. Transcription and spotting has never been easier and faster!
Text Style Grouping
The styles feature in Sublime is a powerful way to quickly group the apperance of multiple subtitles for actors, lyrics, off voices, and so on: You can e.g. assign every speaker a different font and color or set the text italic or bold.
Later on you can change these settings for all the subtitles in one style with a single click. Even the alignment of the subtitle text can be stored in a style, so that you can move subtitles from the bottom of the screen to the top if they would cover text that is printed in the video.
Preview Video and Titles in Realtime
The video preview window gives you the opportunity to view your subtitles as they will look on television later, using different aspect ratios and resolutions. If you have got a dual monitor configuration, you have the possibility to preview the video with the overlaid subtitles full-screen on the second monitor.
Advanced Editing
Tape-offsets, auto line wrapping and splitting, duplicate, merge, find & replace, time shifting and more.
Error Detection
While creating or editing your subtitles, Sublime can warn you about common subtitling mistakes like overlapping titles, too large texts, too many rows, and so on...
Version restrictions:
- Exporting projects is disabled.
- Rendered Quicktime movies and STL subtitles will export the first 10 titles only.
- Saving is disabled.
Enhancements:
- New "Translation mode": You can now edit/compare and create multi-language versions of your subtitles directly in Sublime. By "cloning" the initial language, translators can now compare the new language with the translation without having to leave Sublime, and can now also do timing corrections for each translation uniquely on the fly.
- Every new language can also have its own audio file (if necessary) in the project.
- Added support for the standard High Definition Video resolutions. You can now select HD 720p and HD 1080p/i in Sublimes "Options"->"Video Format" settings. This will scale the loaded video to the selected resolution, or the other way around: Loading HD videos should automatically select the HD resolutions in Sublime.
- Please note that you can not use the HD mode for DVD Studio Pro. DVD Studio Pro is not capable of creating "real" HD DVDs/Blu-rays, so this feature is only useful for those who would like to create a subtitled Quicktime Movie or a subtitle Track for Final Cut Pro.
- Global OSX shortcuts (like Command + Space to switch the keyboard input language) will now work when editing text in Sublime. This will make it easier for translators to for example switch between English and Japanese.
- Added shortcuts to set a specific style for the currently selected subtitle: Command + 1 - Command + 9.
- Those who would like to quickly apply new Subtitle styles, can now do so without having to touch the mouse. These shortcuts can be customized (as all other shortcuts in Sublime) in Sublimes "Keys" Preference Pane.
- Better compatibility with with installed OSX fonts: Sublime did support so far many of your installed OSX fonts, but some of them might be displayed wrong (you got a bold font instead of an italic font). This should be fixed now. Also Sublime will no longer show unsupported old OS9 Font Suitcase formats, so everything you see and select in Sublimes Font chooser should perfectly.
