Sears - A tool to easily modify, delay and resynch movie's subtitles

[devilcoelhodog]

A java graphical tool to easily modify, delay and resynch movie's subtitles. When your subtitles does not fit the movies/TV show you're looking at. Use Sears to quickly fix the common subtitle problems. Sears Because time matters.

---> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sears/

Thanks.

devil (johner)

[jman98]

You are just passing on information so I am not blaming you, but that is a stupid name. Sears is a very well known, old American store. I'm not seeing how it makes sense to call a subtitle resynch tool by the name "Sears".

[lordsmurf]

You are just passing on information so I am not blaming you, but that is a stupid name. Sears is a very well known, old American store. I'm not seeing how it makes sense to call a subtitle resynch tool by the name "Sears".

Agreed.

[Noahtuck]

LOL!!

Yeah the first thing i thought when I read the title was, what does SEARS have to do with anything on video help ?!?!

LOL!!

[devilcoelhodog]

Hello, dear all.

I'm not seeing how it makes sense to call a subtitle resynch tool by the name "Sears".

Yes, it sound strange for me too! LOL

But, despite of that, I want to pass the information concerning about subtitling field.

My brother has Mac system and passed me such program for that system.

I do not know if works well. But it works for Mac. Its one more option for such OS.

But, I agree that name is kinda of funny for subtitling program! LOL

PS: if anyone test the program and put some feedback about it will be nice.

Thanks.

[Des]

Just a shot in the dark here, but -Subtitle Editor And Re-Sync = SEARS
Goodthing it's nothing something more complex or it could be Wal-Mart


--dES

[AlanHK]

You are just passing on information so I am not blaming you, but that is a stupid name. Sears is a very well known, old American store. I'm not seeing how it makes sense to call a subtitle resynch tool by the name "Sears".

The author seems to be French, or at least that's his native language.
Sears don't have any stores outside North America, he'd probably never heard of the shop when he started it, so why should be he care? I don't. It's not likely that anyone is going to think it's sponsored by the department store

[El Heggunte]

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Sears don't have any stores outside North America,

Partially incorrect. There were Sears stores in England until 1999 (according to Wikipedia) and in Brazil until 1992 (according to me, and according to the OP as well).

Too bad the 60s won't come back anymore

[AlanHK]

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Sears don't have any stores outside North America,

Partially incorrect. There were Sears stores in England until 1999 (according to Wikipedia) and in Brazil until 1992 (according to me, and according to the OP as well).

Completely correct, since my statement was in the present tense.

The point remains, outside the US it's pretty obscure.

[lordsmurf]

Just a shot in the dark here, but -Subtitle Editor And Re-Sync = SEARS

Don't forget the sister program: Kutting Movies and Re-sync Tool
Also known as Kmart

[Des]

Just a shot in the dark here, but -Subtitle Editor And Re-Sync = SEARS

Don't forget the sister program: Kutting Movies and Re-sync Tool
Also known as Kmart

Good On'

--dES

[Ai Haibara]

The author seems to be French, or at least that's his native language.
Sears don't have any stores outside North America, he'd probably never heard of the shop when he started it, so why should be he care? I don't. It's not likely that anyone is going to think it's sponsored by the department store

Maybe, but I'd still wonder if a large chain like Sears wouldn't say something to the author, given how a lot of businesses do seem to care about SEO matters. Say, for example, if people didn't like the program, and posted things like "<program> sucks!" "Do you know what <program> did to me?" "I can't believe how bad <program> is!", etc. Then, anyone searching for information on the store would find all of these bad reviews (and not bother to click on any of the links).

(Okay, so I left the name out of the 'quotes' above. I'm perfectly willing to admit I'm paranoid. )

[jman98]

You are just passing on information so I am not blaming you, but that is a stupid name. Sears is a very well known, old American store. I'm not seeing how it makes sense to call a subtitle resynch tool by the name "Sears".

The author seems to be French, or at least that's his native language.
Sears don't have any stores outside North America, he'd probably never heard of the shop when he started it, so why should be he care? I don't. It's not likely that anyone is going to think it's sponsored by the department store

Go to www.google.fr and type in Sears, the American store. The first match is the American English site of Sears. The 2nd match is the Canadian French site of Sears, the American store. If the author isn't smart enough to do a Google search, well, that says it all.

Some of you guys are REALLY stretching to justify the name here.

[Moontrash]

I wonder if it's ever gonna be possible for some users to try this app and let the "Sears" american store discussion die. We kinda realize what the store is now let's see if the app works. Pretty sure no-one at Sears is gonna make a fuss over a free subtitle app.

[AlanHK]

Go to www.google.fr and type in Sears, the American store. The first match is the American English site of Sears. The 2nd match is the Canadian French site of Sears, the American store. If the author isn't smart enough to do a Google search, well, that says it all.

Some of you guys are REALLY stretching to justify the name here.

It's not a "stretch", it's an acronym "Subtitle Editor And Re-Synch"

Yeah, of course Google knows about the shop. It can find anything.

I've never seen an actual "Sears" shop, or advertisement, or any goods with their brand, and probably never will. Neither has 95% of the world's population.
Maybe the author did know there was an American company with that name but thought it irrelevant to the domain of subtitling applications. As it is.

I wonder if it's ever gonna be possible for some users to try this app and let the "Sears" american store discussion die. We kinda realize what the store is now let's see if the app works. Pretty sure no-one at Sears is gonna make a fuss over a free subtitle app.

Well, I did try it.
It launches VLC to view the file, it doesn't have an integrated movie display. You have to find the times from VLC, and type them into Sears. So forget about using this for syncing.

The font it uses (on my PC) can't display subs using accented ANSI characters correctly, and there is no preference to change the font or encoding. Maybe it only works on Unicode. No manual or "help" to explain how this might be fixed. In fact the only preferences are for language and the video player.

There is no explanation of the "repairs" it does, so I'm not going to just let it do what it thinks with no idea what it's doing or why.

So, back to Subtitle Workshop.

[usually_quiet]

Pretty sure no-one at Sears is gonna make a fuss over a free subtitle app.

You never know. In 1978 Apple Corps, the parent of Apple Records, the music company, sued Apple Computers for for trademark infringement. Here's a case where Sears went after two 13-year old kids for using one of their trademarks http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/01/19/nevada-co-teens-face-lawsuit-over-lawn-care-business/

[AlanHK]

Pretty sure no-one at Sears is gonna make a fuss over a free subtitle app.

You never know. In 1978 Apple Corps, the parent of Apple Records, the music company, sued Apple Computers for for trademark infringement. Here's a case where Sears went after two 13-year old kids for using one of their trademarks http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/01/19/nevada-co-teens-face-lawsuit-over-lawn-care-business/

Irrelevant. That case was about the term "Weedwacker" used in the same context (mowing lawns) as the trademarked product.
And the Apple case was because both companies are involved with music.

"Sears" was just a surname, and it doesn't belong exclusively to the richest person who has that name.

But if someone wants to be a complete jerk, tell Sears and if they're jerks too, and send a legal threat he'd probably have to change the name rather than deal with the harassment.

[lordsmurf]

And the Apple case was because both companies are involved with music.

That's actually not accurate. The Beatles catalog (Apple Corps) had the retarded idea that they owned the name "Apple" Apparently, there's not much fruit in UK. But it was a supremely ridiculous lawsuit. At the time, Apple was still just a couple of dudes barely out of their garage. I still remember reading about the 1st case in college, dumbfounded that such a perversion of trademark law had happened. (This was well before the 2000s case came along.)

In the early 2000s, now no longer a small fry, Apple Computers essentially told the other Apple to "get fucked" (though using legalese). And the computer dudes won round 2 with a TKO.

More reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

... I would agree Sears the dept store won't care about this.

[chowmein]

Sears means nothing outside U.S.

[usually_quiet]

Sears means nothing outside U.S.

You mean N. America. Sears has retail operations in Canada and Mexico.

[Des]

AlanHK: It's not a "stretch", it's an acronym "Subtitle Editor And Re-Synch"

You mean I was right


--dES

[AlanHK]

AlanHK: It's not a "stretch", it's an acronym "Subtitle Editor And Re-Synch"

You mean I was right


--dES

It's in the readme.
Not such a bad name after all if you can guess the meaning.