The subtitle editor
Edit Subtitles is a full editor for one file at a time: a table of every subtitle, a waveform with playback, and tools to fix text, timing and formatting. It needs a license. Cleanup, sync and AI cleanup are separate screens now — see Tools and AI Clean Up.
Opening a file
With no file open, the screen invites you to Open video or Open subtitles, or to drop a file anywhere on the window. Opening a video loads its audio for playback and the waveform; if it has several subtitle tracks, a Select subtitle track dialog lets you pick one, and you can open it again later to load another. Subtitle files saved beside the video appear as sidecar tracks. Other screens hand files over too: Edit on a finished Transcribe or Extract result, and Open in Editor from YouTube Transcript. Double-clicking a subtitle file, or Open with, opens it here as well.
The header
- Undo / Redo — step through your edit history.
- Save — writes the subtitles back to the file they came from, in that file’s own format. With no source file it asks where to save.
- Export — saves a copy as SRT, WebVTT, ASS or plain text; see Exporting and saving.
- Clear file and Open another video reset the workspace.
An Unsaved changes marker shows when your edits have not been written, and the app asks before you close or open another file with unsaved work.
Formatting is kept
The editor opens files with their formatting: italics, bold, underline and colour in SRT and WebVTT, and the same in ASS. You can see and change them in the editor, and they are written back in the form the file’s format uses — ASS overrides in ASS files, tags in the others.
Subtitle-only files
If you open a subtitle file without a video, a banner explains that waveform and playback are not available and offers Open video. Everything else still works.