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Just when I thought it was safe to use version 2.51, I encountered a flaw in the program. I'd have to call this a major flaw too.
After using the feature to join two subtitle files, I noticed there was an entry missing. After a while of manually editing the two original .srt files - actually just the one from which the entry turned up missing after the join - and I discovered something pretty stupid about this program:
If a single subtitle entry has multiple lines, the first line can not contain a number all by itself. Why not? Subtitle Workshop removes the entire entry! Now, if the first line of the entry starts with a number but has other text following it on the same line, then this error does not happen.
To give an example, the entry was something like this:
947
01:42:22,694 --> 01:42:34,280
1967
Bla bla bla, bla bla bla words words words.
Yackity yack yack mumble jibba jabba.
The date "1967" in the first line was causing the program to completely remove entry number 947 from the final output of the joined subtitle files. I had to add something like a comma before working with it so it wouldn't remove it all.
Actually, just the simple act of loading the file into the program will remove the entry. So if you've got subtitles that might fit the description, you'll have a heck of a time manually editing it just for the program to work with it.... and then manually editing the final output back to the way it should be. |
