juyshy / real-time-subtitles

Subtitling video screening in real time at a live event

Real time subtitles

Real time subtitles is for events or conferences with audio or video screenings where translations are prepared as text but not yet time coded or embedded to video. This application provides functionality for real time syncking and overlaying of subtitles on video screening.

Features:

• Two windows:
  • control window with context view: current subtitle highlighted in the context of previous and upcoming subtitle lines
  • subtitle window which may be overlayed to the bottom of video playing in separate player
• keyboard control forward, backward stepping in subtitle queue, toggling on/off overlay window visibility
• jump to defined subtitle line
• settings for size, color and positioning of overlaying subtitles window
• logging subtitle times for timecoding

Subtitle files preparation

• encoding: unicode 7 Utf-8 text files with end lines with LF only
• lines separated with line feed (LF) line breaks

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• PyQt 5

Perhaps easiest to get it running is to install Anaconda python distribution

Potential issue with anaconda and windows: If error: application failed because could not load qt platform plugin "windows" ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues#1270 fix: "COPY the Continuum\Anaconda3\Library\plugins\platforms folder to Continuum\Anaconda3