Need beta testers for a new subtitling editor!

[Rachmaninoff]

Hello everyone,

I'm a programmer and I'm finishing the development of a new & free SRT editor for Windows in my spare time. Right now, I need some beta testers to play around with it and maybe find some bugs. If anyone is interested, please reply to this topic and I'll contact you with instructions.

Many thanks.

[scooby007]

Thank you for your efforts, but it may be better if you could upload your program on a file storage site and then provide a link for users to download the program here. Good luck.

[Rachmaninoff]

Okay I'll do that, thanks for the tip scooby.

[Rachmaninoff]

Hi everyone,

I've just published a new SRT editor for Windows, SRTEd, which can be downloaded here:
http://download.cnet.com/SRTEd-SRT-Subt ... 84617.html

I also made an YouTube video showing the basic principles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWo2_B8brKo

The motivation to this was that I found the existing editors a bit boring, laborious and tedious to use. So I wrote my own, the way I'd like it to be, with a more "visual" approach. I've been using it myself for some weeks and I'm pretty satisfied so far. It's the very first version, so there's a lot of room for improvement and new features. I have some ideas that I plan to implement soon, hopefully. And I'm glad to share it with everyone.

Thanks.

[eduo]

This is pretty interesting. I once did a subtitle editor that I never released but use internally. It's pretty similar in concept, having full keyboard control, lots of visual feedback and sync features (I also added basic fps conversions and sync with separate subs by selecting equivalent start and finish subs).

Good Work

What did you develop this on?

[Rachmaninoff]

Hi eduo,

This is pretty interesting. I once did a subtitle editor that I never released but use internally. It's pretty similar in concept, having full keyboard control, lots of visual feedback and sync features (I also added basic fps conversions and sync with separate subs by selecting equivalent start and finish subs).

Yeah, it always seemed to be the most natural way to handle the subs. I wrote my own because I couldn't find one, had you released yours, I'd probably use it instead of developing one.

What did you develop this on?

Native Win32 and C++. Actually, it's a very C-ish C++, I'm not a fan of STL, Boost or those libraries. The video playback is DirectX, also coded natively. Yeah, low level stuff, but it's a lot of fun I think. But that's why the program is so small and requires no dependencies (DLLs or whathever).

Thanks for your input, I'm glad you like it.

[Rachmaninoff]

Just a quick update:
For my surprise, I just received an e-mail from Softpedia team, which I had not contacted. They said SRTEd was successfully tested on Windows 8, and they liked it, so they added it to their own programs database.

SRTEd has been tested in the Softpedia labs using several industry-leading security solutions and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components. We are impressed with the quality of your product and encourage you to keep these high standards in the future.

I'm really glad for this. Here is the page on Softpedia, with their own screenshots:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia ... RTEd.shtml