A keyboard macro program for adding color to subtitles w single key

[loninappleton]

Can someone say if Sub tile Edit has hot keys for adding color codes (max three needed) for editing and creating subs.
The subject line is to look for a stand alone keyboard program that can remap three keys to the code of a few SRT colors-- no more than three needed for use with old style membrane keyboards. Mine is a Belkin 6565 and still in good shape. I thought if I could program three plus the terminate color keys on the numeric pad (1 - 2 - 3) would work well

I guess actually an additional key to turn the font color off is needed. So an example is:

<font color="#ffff00"> {text} then </font> to turn the color off.

[loninappleton]

Since my question SE informed me yes there are are some shortcuts for color in earlier releases of SE. Those look like the screen shot at the path SE > Options > Shortcuts > scroll down to List and text.

I was not successful in getting it to work because no guidance on it.

Has anyone just simply used the color options successfully in the past?

I do know that manually entering a color like the earlier example shows up on the video in SE using the recommended player.

[loninappleton]

For any one observing or searching this topic I came back to this today since I now have a good grasp of how to use the color codes in Subtitle Edit and to use the 'turn off color switch' which is </font>.

Subtitle Edit automatically uses </font> at the end of the line to turn off the color.

To make a single word in color use the text box and start at the word and insert.

So from start to finish ....

Go > Subtitle Edit > Options > General > Shortcuts > scroll down to 'List view and Text Box' > scroll down to 'color' >
select that, then set the hot key.

To set the hotkey where color 4 is selected I checked Control Box (bottom) + Alt Box and finally at the word KEY, open that and select a keyboard key. I found it best to stick with the F-keys such as F12 because many other key combinations are in use for active SE shortcut combinations.

So in the example to get your color, type Cntl-Alt-F12 while using the SE text box in an active SRT editing.

One thing I could add here since there is only HTML code is make list of the colors. In other words, without such a list it's guesswork.

When I've completed setting that up, I'll add an update.

[loninappleton]

Since last time I practiced using the optional codes in SE at the Options > Shortcuts > list location. What I'm showing here is a few of those with color tags so one would know which color is accessed by which F-key combination I ser up. It appears that cntl+alt and an Fkey selection works the best.

Also on this post I show some other codes for experimentation: purple, olive etc. But going crazy with colors is not something I would do and perhaps not at all. The phrase (a long silence) was simply a line I chose to practice with from an srt loaded into Subtitle Edit.

<font color="#FFA500">( a long silence)</font> orange cntl+alt+F6

<font color="#FFC0CB">( a long silence)</font> White cntl+alt+F5

<font color="#FFFF00">(a long silence)</font> yellow cntl+alt+F11

<font color="#00FFFF">(a long silence)</font> light blue cntl+alt+F9

<font color="#00FF00">(a long silence)</font> med. green cntl+alt+F10

<font color="#FF0000">(a long silence)</font> red/magenta cnt+alt+F12


Red

#FF0000
Green

#008000
Blue

#0000FF
Black

#000000
White

#FFFFFF
Yellow

#FFFF00
Cyan / Aqua

#00FFFF
Magenta / Fuchsia

#FF00FF
Gray / Grey

#808080
Silver

#C0C0C0
Maroon

#800000
Olive

#808000
Navy

#000080
Purple

#800080
Orange

#FFA500
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