Too long sentences in subtitles -- looking for solution.

[ralf07]

Hello, sometimes you find subtitles with too many characters (words) in one line, so text doesn't fit to screen and therefore part of it is not visible! depending how big tv you have.

Of course you can always open Notepad and press Enter to split one long line ito two or three.
But if they are hundreds of them?

So I wonder about small program utility which could do it automatically. Of course with few procedures:


Here is too long sentence from subtitle which doesn't fit to screen:

James has a very expensive car and need to wash it evey third day.

The program would split if as follows:

James has a very expensive car 
and need to wash it every third day.

or

James has a very expensive car 
and need to wash it 
every third day.

Of course the program couldn't act like this:

James has a very expensive car an
d need to wash it every third day.

So it shouldn't split words, hovever it should have an alghoritm to make a new line after number of charcers counted in first line.


Anyone knows that kind of program?

[cal_tony]

Many of the srt subtitle programs have that option.

SubtitleEdit is always updated with new features and It has 2 drop down options

merge short lines & split long lines.

Tony

[AlanHK]

Subtitle Workshop has functions to do this.

To set linewrapping on selected lines, use Ctrl-E (Edit/Smart line adjust).
Just select all subtitles (Ctrl-A) to do the whole file.
The default is max 40 characters/line, change that in Settings/Advanced.

Or you can use its "Information and errors" check (Ctrl-I) which will flag "too long" lines and you can edit them yourself if you prefer.

[MilesAhead]

If you have a player that prefers external idx/sub such as WD HDTV for USB as I do, AviAddXSubs can split lines during the .srt to idx/sub conversion. I just set it to Center justified. Now and then you get some short lines in the center but I know everything will fit no matter how many lines there are.

[jman98]

If you have a player that prefers external idx/sub such as WD HDTV for USB as I do,

What do you mean by "prefers"? Do you mean prefers "external subs"? OK, I'll give you that. But if you mean "prefers idx/sub over srt" then I find that dubious. You mean you are actually converting SRT subs to IDX/SUB? I don't get. Granted I have a first generation WDTV player, but crap, I've never seen a player that preferred anything over SRT. In fact, on mine IDX/SUB has so many problems that I convert them to SRT.