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Very cool. What's the current best tool to help make the .srt file? e.g. the current best-of-breed text recognition / text alignment tool. Last time I looked at something like this there didn't seem to be a particularly robust solution, especially for text alignment.

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Hello! Original author here. I'm not sure about the best tool for creating new .srt files, but for films, you can find pretty much anything on opensubtitles.org or subscene.com (although the quality varies). You can also download .srts for youtube videos (again, quality varies).

For television, addic7ed.com

I will caution people that downloaded subs are very often misaligned (timing) with your video, due to various cuts of videos, intro logos, disc versions, framerates, etc., etc. Leave your download page open and check one-by-one against the source video.

I think Aegisub (http://www.aegisub.org/) is the current golden standard in the anime community, which is one of the most active when it comes to subtitles.

Aegisub is indeed the subtitle editor, and the one I would recommend over everything else when it comes to making subtitles.

Last time I did this (~2011} "Subtitle Editor"[1] was a pretty decent solution for *nix-based systems. On Windows, VisualSubSync[2] was all the rage, iirc.

[1] http://home.gna.org/subtitleeditor/ [2] http://www.visualsubsync.org/

On the Mac, Subler can generate .srt files by OCR from both DVD and Blu-ray image subtitle tracks:

https://code.google.com/p/subler/

...although its OCR engine (Tesseract) can be a little sketchy.

Gnome subtitles is pretty easy to use and works well: http://gnome-subtitles.sourceforge.net/

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