Subtitle Edit
Subtitle editor
title: "Subtitle Edit" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["subtitling", "free-video-software", "free-software-programmed-in-c-sharp", "cross-platform-free-software", "free-multilingual-software", "free-software-programmed-in-delphi", "software-using-the-gnu-general-public-license"] description: "Subtitle editor" topic_path: "general/subtitling" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_Edit" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Subtitle editor ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Subtitle Edit |
| title | Subtitle Edit |
| logo | Subtitle Edit logo.png |
| caption | Main window with wave form and video player |
| developer | Nikolaj Lynge Olsson |
| latest release version | |
| latest release date | |
| released | |
| programming language | C# (2009 - Present) |
| Borland Delphi (2001 - 2009) |
| | operating system | Windows Linux | | platform | .NET Framework | | size | Windows: 8.0–11.6 MB Linux: 9.3 MB | | language count | 34 | | language | English, Chinese, Argentina, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | | genre | Subtitle editor | | license | GNU General Public License v3.0 | | website | | ::
| name = Subtitle Edit | title = Subtitle Edit | logo = Subtitle Edit logo.png | screenshot = | caption = Main window with wave form and video player | collapsible = | author = | developer = Nikolaj Lynge Olsson | latest release version = | latest release date = | released = | programming language = C# (2009 - Present) Borland Delphi (2001 - 2009)
| operating system = Windows Linux | platform = .NET Framework | size = Windows: 8.0–11.6 MB Linux: 9.3 MB | language count = 34 | language = English, Chinese, Argentina, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | genre = Subtitle editor | license = GNU General Public License v3.0 | website = Subtitle Edit (also known as SE) is a free and open-source subtitle editor to create, edit, adjust or synchronize subtitles for videos.
Features
SE supports 250+ subtitle formats. Some of the most popular ones are SubRip, Timed Text, DFXP (Netflix standards), ITT (iTunes), SubStation Alpha, MicroDVD, SAMI, D-Cinema and BdSub. It uses the VLC media player, MPC-HC, Mpv or DirectShow to play videos.
It is available in 34 languages and works on Windows and Linux.
Development
In 2001, Nikolaj Lynge Olsson had started the development of Subtitle Edit in Delphi which continued until April 2009. On 6 March 2009, 2.0 Beta 1 version (build 42401) was released.
Over time, more developers have contributed to SE's development, and it is still active. It is hosted at GitHub.
On May 17, 2011, the developer announced the testing version of SE 3.2 for Linux. It uses the same source code that was developed for Windows, to implement it on Linux using Mono Project.
On October 17, 2011, the developer announced the availability of stable version for Linux. The developer himself stated that it is working well on Ubuntu.
References
References
- "Check for the comment dated on '09-25-02 10:20 PM' on this page.". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson.
- "Subtitle Edit 2.0 Beta 1 released". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson.
- "A Linux version for testing is out.". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson.
- "Post published by developer(s)". Nikolaj Lynge Olsson.
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