Importing .sbv to DVDA subtitles

rdolishny wrote on 3/18/2013, 10:21 PM

I just finished a very large captioning project for youtube and now the client has asked for a DVD with captions.

I can export a.sbv from YouTube but that format is quite different from .sub.

Any ideas how to convert the youtube captions to something DVDA an import?

I'm searching but nothing seems to use the .sub format, or .sub means other things to other software.

IE: here is what YouTube exports:

0:02:10.090,0:02:12.090
People can expect a lot of trouble quitting.

and what it should look like is:

0001 0:02:10.00 0:02:12.00 People can expect a lot of trouble quitting.

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rdolishny wrote on 3/18/2013, 10:45 PM

I found a remarkable piece of FREE software that seems to do so much more than captioning.

It reveals overlapping captions.

It imports everything.

It exports everything ...and most important allowed me to change the format of the export (ie replace --> with a ' ' space)

https://code.google.com/p/subtitleedit/

Amazing. And best of all, it worked.