Kijio sports an easy to use interface that supports adding and editing primary and secondary subtitles of videos and movies. The user has the option to only load the movie and start the subtitle creation from scratch or load one or two subtitles into the program interface to edit them afterwards.

The subtitle editor displays a preview of the movie, a timeline and the current subtitle text on the screen. The mouse is used to pause the video playback, select parts in the timeline to add new text and to edit existing text.

The lower part of the interface contains additional fine tuning options to sync the subtitles with the movie.

One interesting option that is provided by Kijio is the ability to translate subtitles into different languages. It is possible to translate a complete subtitle file or only selected text.

While this is not as good as manual translating text it could be enough to enjoy the movie if time is of a matter.

Subtitles that have been created or edited can be saved as .srt or .sub files in the end.

Kijio is a handy subtitle editor with a powerful translation option to instantly create subtitles in different languages. The program is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Subtitle Search is another program for finding and download subtitles from the Internet. It supports several subtitle databases including the popular sites Open Subtitles and Subtitle Resource.

The main program basically works by entering a movie title or partial title into the search form in the program’s interface.

Subtitle Search will then perform searches on various supported websites to find the movie and corresponding subtitles.

The subtitle downloader usually populates the results listing quickly. Each result is listed with its title, language, number of CDs, rating and source.

Subtitle Search will also pull information about the movie from IMDB including its cover, votes, rating and link. All it takes to download a specific subtitle is to left-click it in the results. It is also possible to open the page it is hosted on by right-clicking the subtitle instead.

Users can also perform a search on IMDB right from the program’s interface which might come in handy if a movie title cannot be remembered.

There are two additional features that we would like to mention in this short review. The first is the ability to automatically download movie trailers if they are found on supported websites. The second to monitor the subtitle databases for subtitles that are currently not hosted there.

Subtitle Search is an Open source software program for the Windows operating system that can be downloaded directly from the project’s website at Sourcefoge.

There is also an option to analyze existing subtitles for problems like lines with to many characters, empty lines or overlapping times. But analyzing is not the only automatic option that Submagic offers. There is also a very extensive error fixing feature that can fix more than 20 common problems and errors of subtitles including the correction of ocr errors, removal of line separators or the fixing of quotes. Several fixes contain multiple choices that the user can chose from.

The Edit tab can be used to search subtitles, find and replace text and to insert, add, delete or split them. The final tab in the editing process is the synchronize tab which can be just to finetune the display of the lines in the movie.

All of this would not be helpful if there was not some kind of movie preview feature to test the subtitles. That’s possible in the Play Movie tab which also lists some of the commonly used functions mentioned earlier on in the article. It is for instance possible to insert or delete lines directly or to shift and stretch the lines to synchronize perfectly with the movie.

Another interesting option is the movie converter which can be used to convert movies from NTSC format to PAL and vice verse. The final tab contains general options that define how parameters like font sizes for the subtitles, the default screen format and several others like colors or directories on the computer system.

Submagic is a sophisticated well thought out application to work with subtitles. Beginners might feel a bit overwhelmed by the features and settings but it should not take more than a few minutes to get to know the subtitle editor. Impatient users might try their luck with one of the various subtitle downloaders like subtitle downloader, sub download or subtitle download instead.

SubDude has been designed to automatically rename subtitles to match the names of the movies. The software program comes with a graphical user interface which can be used to point it to a folder on the computer system. The subtitle renamer will automatically rename the subtitles to match the names of the videos. Regular expressions are used to match the videos and subtitles and the program usually does a very good job at finding the right matches.

It is furthermore possible to create an undo file in case something goes terribly wrong during the process. There are also two options to add the program to the context menu and send to shortcut in Windows.

SubDude is a portable software program that can be executed from wherever the files are unpacked to. It comes with a ini in the data folder that can be used to edit the regular expressions used to identify matching videos and subtitles.

All three subtitle databases will be searched and displayed in the interface. The top pane contains the titles of the movies while the lower pane will list the available subtitles for the different versions of the selected movie.

Subs Grabber integrates itself into the right-click Windows Explorer menu so that it can be used to right-click a movie and perform a search for it in the software.

The vast databases of the three services ensure that lots of subtitles can be found using the subtitles downloader.