Tutorial:Resync
Subtitle Workshop
This tutorial uses Subtitle Workshop to demonstrate how to resync subtitles.
At the time of this tutorial, the current version is 2.51 and is available at http://www.urusoft.net/
You should have both the video file and non-synced subtitles at hand.
To load the video file, click Movie → Open (or Ctrl + P) and for the subtitle file, click File → Load subtitle... (or Ctrl + O).
If you have trouble loading the video (i.e. a black screen), you can download the fix from: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jhatanb9z64l3m9/Set_VMR9_Default.inf
Right click that file fix and select "Install". You may need to reboot your computer.
In most simple cases, you will only need to reshift the subtitles, which assumes that the video file you have, does not contain extra cuts/scenes or adverts.
Follow the instructions on the image shown below:
Now click Movie → Subtitles → Move Subtitle (or Alt + M), which will now subtract or add all the timecodes, but keep the duration for each line intact.
Make sure to save the newly synced subtitle.
Subtitle Edit
This tutorial uses Subtitle Edit to demonstrate how to resync subtitles.
At the time of this tutorial, the current version is 3.4.2 and is available at http://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit/
You should have both the video file and non-synced subtitles at hand.
To load the video file, click Video → Open video file and for the subtitle file, click File → Open (or Ctrl + O).
If the video and subtitles have similar file names, both the video and subtitle should load up together when loading the subtitles.
In most simple cases, you will only need to reshift the subtitles, which assumes that the video file you have, does not contain extra cuts/scenes or adverts.
If the video doesn't load in Subtitle Edit, you can enable it by clicking Video → Show/hide video (or Ctrl + Q).
You should now click the Adjust tab located on the bottom left, similar to the image shown below:
Press the play button on the video player, to obtain the sync point where the first dialogue is first spoken, and pause the video.
You can then click the first button titled, 'Set start and off-set the rest (or press F9), which will adjust all subsequent lines onwards.
If you happen to just miss this sync point, you can click the or backward (<<) or forward (>>) button (as shown in blue), to find that initial sync point.
Use the first set of << or >> buttons if you need to adjust the milliseconds, and the second set of << or >> buttons to adjust the seconds.
As you get closer to the sync point, you can reduce the millisecond or second intervals by press the up and down buttons.
After you're done syncing, click the button titled, 'Set start and off-set the rest (or press F9), to automatically adjust all subsequent lines thereafter.
Make sure to save the newly synced subtitle afterwards.
