Sublime is a program to edit, Spot, and render subtitles for DVD authoring, mainly for Apple's great authoring suite DVD Studio Pro. You can directly use QuickTime movies and even compressed MPEG2 videos with speed and accuracy you've never archived before.
Sublime Features:
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 appearance 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.
High quality video export
With Sublimes video export feature you can render your Sublime project as a Quicktime movie. This movie can be played back on any computer that has Quicktime installed (Sublime is not required for Playback). This way you can Create presentations of your work, or create high quality subtitled movies without having to author/render them in DVD Studio Pro.
Further, the video export allows to render movie files which only contain a video subtitle track. This video can then be imported into e.g. Final Cut Pro, to create and edit subtitled movies.
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, merge, duplicate, find and 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...
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.6 New features:Automatic Scene Detection / Align Subtitles to Scenes Titles which are aligned to video scenes, do usually result in easier to read titles. Sublime now allows you now to analyze imported movies to find and visualize scenes in your projects. Further, warnings will be shown next to the subtitles, as soon as the titles have "slightly" missed a scene start or end. Missed scenes on title starts are less sensitive (3 Frames) than missed scenes on title ends (10 Frames). Drag & Dropping titles will also auto-snap to existing scenes.To use the new scene detection feature in Sublime, first import a movie as usual. Then click on "Options" -> "Scene Detection...". Analyzing movies will take a while, but can be done in background. Analyzing is only needed once per project/video.Auto-Save Projects Sublime can now periodically save backups of your projects while you work on them. This way you have always a set of old versions, in case you've accidently removed something in a project. The backup period and place for the auto-saved files can be configured in Sublimes "Misc" preferences pane.Default Project Template You can now save a Sublime Project as template, so Sublime will always start with this template instead of creating an empty default "factory" project. This can be useful if you are always using the same set of styles or other settings. Those templates can be saved in the "File" menuLeading/Trailing Spaces ... in subtitles are now visualized with a small "triangle" character in the subtitle List, so you can now easily spot and remove them. Most of the time those spaces are unwanted because they change the alignment of the titles.Auto Wrapping/Splitting improvements The Autowrap commands in Sublime will now, if no punctuation marks are present, try to make the lower title longer than the upper one. This results in most cases in a better readability of the titles.Better Final Cut Pro MOV compatibility Due to a problem in the latest Final Cut Pro, exported Quicktime Movies from Sublime could sometimes "miss" some Titles. There now is a compatibility option for FCP in Sublimes Render Dialog which lets you create Quicktime Movies which will always work correctly in FCP. These files are much bigger than the "incompatible" ones, so if you don't want to edit/work with the MOV in FCP, you should not use this setting.
Bug Fix: Horizontal alignment tags where exported as "HorizAlign" instead of "HorzAlign" in text STL files. This is fixed now.
