Subtitle Edit review: fix subtitle files without another subscription
Hands-on timing shift and SRT/WebVTT export on Subtitle Edit 5.3.0 (Linux), plus documentation where marked.
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Fix timing on an existing subtitle file and export SRT or WebVTT locally. Our hands-on check used Subtitle Edit 5.3.0 on Linux x64.
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We opened an SRT with three cues that were intentionally early, used Synchronization → Adjust all times… → Show later with a 0.800 s offset, then saved SRT and WebVTT. Every cue moved by exactly +800 ms. UTF-8 characters were preserved without a BOM. WebVTT dropped numeric cue IDs and used a decimal point in timestamps. The Linux x64 build ran as a self-contained binary (no Mono).
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