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Our special pick from the table above is Movavi Video Editor. Super easy to use for beginners while also offering advanced editing tools and features, this is one of the best overall programs you can use for adding and editing subtitles on the fly. Plus, it comes with a full free version to try out.

Key features:

• Lets you create, add, and edit subtitles

• Can change the position of subtitles on the screen

• Tools for editing the color, font, size of subtitles

• Easy synchronization of subtitles and video

Movavi Video Editor gives you the option to easily add and edit subtitles for your video files. In addition, it comes with powerful video-editing tools to cover all of your video creation needs. ^[1]

Movavi Video Editor is designed to be as easy to use as possible while still offering the user a large selection of professional-quality effects. The software is available as an app for Windows and Mac. There is a free download available so you can try Movavi Video Editor before you buy it.

Key features:

• Translation mode is available

• Can change the color of subtitles

• Automatic updates

This open-source subtitle-editing freeware is licensed under the GPL. It requires the latest version of the Java Runtime Environment to run. It features an optimizing algorithm to help fix timing inconsistencies and will allow you to automatically handle frame rate conversions that would otherwise throw off the timing of all of your subtitles.

There is an easy installer for Windows, Mac, and Linux that includes the requirements. Because it is a Java program, it will run on any system that can run the Java Runtime Environment. For platforms other than the three mentioned, however, the user will be responsible for making sure the requirements are met.

Key features:

• Allows to create subtitles from scratch

• Tools for editing the text of subtitles

• Option to resync subtitles

This SRT editor is also open-source. Open Subtitle Editor uses the .NET Framework rather than Java, as Jubler uses. To run Open Subtitle Editor, you will need to have .NET Framework version 4 or later. Since the software relies on Windows Media Player to work, it only runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Open Subtitle Editor allows you to do subtitle editing tasks such as adding and removing subtitles, translation, re-syncing, and editing of the existing text. You can also use the software to create subtitle files from scratch. It is licensed under the GNU GPL.

Key features:

• Supports over 60 subtitle formats

• Automatic/manual detection and fixing of timing and text errors

• Supports style and color tags

• Spell checking

• Customizable shortcuts

Another open-source, GPL licensed subtitle manager is Subtitle Workshop. This one features a user-friendly interface that is available in multiple different languages. Its tools for timing and text manipulation are customizable so that you can create an interface that allows you to operate in the workflow that is most convenient for you.

Subtitle Workshop will allow you to quickly set durations, adjust lines, check your spelling, and automate frames per second changes. It allows you to detect, mark, and fix timing or text errors using a comprehensive set of automatic and manual tools. It can also be extended using Pascal script files.

Key features:

• Can change the font, size, color, and position of subtitles

• Lets you edit the start and end times for subtitles

The next program on our list, POP Subtitle Editor, is a subtitle creator for MP4, WMV, AVI, or QT video files. POP Subtitle Editor is only available for Microsoft Windows platforms. It allows you to easily edit the styling of your subtitles, including their font, color, size, and position. As with all powerful subtitle software, you can edit the subtitles while previewing the video to avoid the need to go back and forth checking your work. POP Subtitle Editor allows you to export video files with your subtitles with one click.

Key features:

• Can create movies from videos, photos

• Has multiple effects and transitions

• Simple drag and drop option

• Real-time preview of edits

This Windows-only software is more than just a subtitle adder. Aura Video Editor is a full video editing application. The software allows you to import video files in over 30 different formats. You can export the files in MKV, FLV, and 8 other popular formats. Using Aura Video Editor, you can trim and arrange video clips, create a slideshow from photographs, and add music to the final product.

The program features a simple interface with drag-and-drop functionality. When you are done editing your video, you can opt to burn the final result to DVD or Blu-ray in addition to saving it out to the 10 digital video file formats that are supported.

Key features:

• Various video-editing features

• Option to enable/disable subtitles

• Can hardcode or softcode external subtitles

Like Aura Video Editor, VideoProc is more than a simple subtitle editor. This full video editing package is hardware accelerated so you can take advantage of your GPU for smooth editing of video files up to 4K resolution. Unlike other software on the list, VideoProc is not free software. You can get a free trial, though, so that you can see if VideoProc is worth the price before you have to spend any money. The software is available for Windows and Mac computers.

Key features:

• Synchronization of subtitles with audio

• Real-time preview

• Tools for styling subtitles

• Translation assistant

This open-source software is available for Windows, Mac, and UNIX operating systems. Aegisub Advanced Subtitle Editor includes powerful tools for styling and editing subtitles files, including a real-time preview for checking your work. The software includes audio waveform viewers to make getting the timing of your subtitles files just right even easier.

Aegisub supports some features that are not available in the SRT file format. Because of this, you can not save directly to SRT if you are using some features that would be lost by saving to that format. It does allow you to export to that format after you have finished editing though.

Key features:

• Can change the font, style, and position of subtitles

• Lets you edit text color, including background and outline color

• Option to upload a video from your computer or paste the URL of a video

• Allows to create a workspace for collaboration

• Has many video-editing tools

Kapwing is a full-featured online video editor that includes subtitle-editing tools ^[2]. It’s easy to start working with this service since the interface is quite simple, and you don’t have to sign in at the beginning. Kapwing lets you do all the necessary manipulations with subtitles, like changing their timing, appearance, and position. You can upload an .srt file or create new subtitles right in the editor. Kapwing is not just subtitle-making software, it also has various video-editing tools. Another useful function Kapwing provides is creating a workspace to work with your colleagues.

Key features:

• Can create subtitles from a text file

• Ability to edit subtitle files

• Multi-language interface

• Instant preview without saving

• Can save partially edited files

• Spell-checking in multiple languages

DivXLand Media Subtitler is a freeware app that lets you edit external subtitle files. You can also create new subtitles by uploading a text file that contains only dialog lines in chronological order. The software supports a great variety of subtitle formats. You can use keyboard shortcuts to make the subtitle-editing process faster.

Key features:

• Automatic translations

• Supports more than 280 formats

• Easy subtitle synchronization

Subtitle Edit is a free, open-source subtitle editor. It lets users adjust subtitles with ease in various ways. You can convert between hundreds of subtitle formats, automatically sync subtitles with video, rip subtitles from DVDs, use auto-translation, and even create new subtitles too.

Key features:

• Automatic subtitle creation

• Free and open source

• Stretch, sync, and convert using the mouse

AHD Subtitles Maker is a subtitle creation tool for Windows devices. It lets users create new subtitle files for their existing video clips. It's able to generate subtitles automatically ^[3], and users can then use the mouse to edit subtitles on the fly, with tools such as stretching and synchronization.

Key features:

• Supports many audio and video formats

• Subtitle conversions, adjustments, and edits on-the-fly

• Auto-loading of subtitle files

SubEdit Player is a media player that can play audio and video files of many different formats. It stands out for its varied subtitle settings, letting you adjust subtitle format, display time, transparency, size, and so on.

Key features:

• Automatic transcription

• Machine translation for over 128 languages

• Smart timestamp synchronization

• Easy-to-use subtitle editor

Checksub is a web-based application that generates and translates your subtitles automatically ^[4]. It transcribes all kinds of video projects and syncs your speech and text thanks to machine-learning technology. You only have to proofread the result on a dedicated subtitle editor. You can burn your subtitles into your video and customize their style. Checksub also provides a wide range of text and video formats (SRT, VTT, TXT, MP4.)