Easy Subtitle editor?

[magnu]

I am after a subtitle editor that is easy to use? I've tried Subtitle Edit but it insists on doing things I don't want to do, such as changing the layout of the original text as well as the spelling!

All I want to do is import some subtitles from one video to a slightly extended one, change the starting point of some of the text, and occasionally let it appear a bit longer?

[krykmoon]

For Subtitle Edit: you probably have some options enabled for auto-correction/formatting.

Anyway.. i use KaiNote : it's also free and has very powerful tools, especially for re-sync tasks, but at the beginning you have to spend quite some time to familiarize yourself with its complex interface full of buttons and understand how those tools work.

[Ennio]

It's not clear whether your subtitles are text- or image-based. For text, see krykmoon's post.

Should your subtitles be image-based SUP or XML/PNG, SE has the option to perform time-based edits (like syncing) without touching the original images.