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The world’s first Silverlight 3 client is avaiable now for searching and downloading subtitles. This powerful tool enables users to search and download movie subtitles for free. It display the results in a list where you can preview the subtitles and download the one which is more suitable.

How to use?

First of all you will need Silverlight plugin for your browser. After you install it click on Search subtitles link on top of page and the search utility will brings up.

Now once the plugin is loaded let`s take a look what we have here:

1. The Title textbox: here we input the name of the movie;

We can use the Language filter… to search only a certain language.

1. The Year textbox: this helps us to differentiate between movies of the same name but directed in a different year;
2. The Season and Episode textbox: complete this if you search for subtitles for serials (ex: Title: Stargate Atlantis, Season: 3, Episode: 20);
3. After all the relevant fields has completed click on Search button and below will be show the results on a multiline table list;
4. Click on list once to select your movie subtitle and finally click on Download Subtitle button to download it to your hard drive.

Tipp: If you using Vista or Windows 7 you can even download this tool as a gadget to put on your desktop and you can search from your desktop for subtitles.

Whatever the reason, you may need to modify a subtitle file so it syncs up with your movie. You can paste your subtitle in the text area or you can use the browse button to open your file.

1. Use the Browse button to open your subtitle file.

Just click on Browse button, search for subtitle file on your hard drive and open it. Or you can paste it into the text area if you previously opened with a text editor.

1. The Difference (Offset)

Here you can set delay positive or negative, time in seconds or by number of frames within your tool. In both cases must be enter the amount of seconds or the number of frames.

Increasing delay (+ sign) it will cause the subtitles to display later.

Decreasing delay (- sign) it will make the subtitles display sooner.

Example: If you want to increase subtitle time by 5 seconds. Browse our subtitle file. Choose the + sign from the dropdown list, enter 5 to the textbox. Select as seconds from the dropdown list.

1. The FPS

FPS stands for frames per second in which the measurement of a video clip contains number of image frames within one second. Each frame is a picture. The frames per second indicate how many times the picture will be changed per second.

With this tool you can convert between different subtitle frame rates. This feature is very useful, in case your subtitle file has a different fps from the video file.

1. The Output Options

The Output Options will allow saving your modified subtitle file to your hard disc. You can choose the Subtitle format and the Output format for your file.

Subtitle Format: This will be your generated subtitle file extension .sub or .srt. You can leave these settings on default value (Same as input).

Output Format: If you choose Save as a file your subtitle will be saved to your hard disk or you can preview it choosing Show in browser.

1. Finally:

Click the Process button to generate your file.

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This HowTo was contributed by Balaji Athreya

1<==>2 CD converter is a wonderful tool.
Suppose you are in a situation where the movie file you have has 1 CD and the subtitle file you have has come in two parts. Then you won’t be able to see the subtitle for the second part of the movie.

Anyway, using this 1<==>2 converter you can merge both the subtitle files into a single subtitle file.
This tool also works the other way. Suppose the movie file you have has 2 CDs and the subtitle file you have is a single file. Then again you will have trouble in using the subtitle file.

But using this 1<==>2 converter you can cut the subtitle file into two parts.

Procedure to use 1<==> converter:
Now, if you want to merge 2 subtitle files into one, press the button “2>>1 CD”. If you want to spilt a single subtitle file into two click the button”1>>2 CD”

“2>>1 CD”
Click the “browse” button and select the first subtitle file from the “file upload” window that pops up. Click “open” button.
Then click the second “browse” button and select the second subtitle file from the “file upload” window that pops out. Click “open” button.
Then click the “join subtitles” button.
A new link appears. Open the link in a new tab or window. Go to file menu in the tool bar of your web browser and select the option “save page as”. A new pop up window appears. Click the button “save”.
Now the subtitles have been merged into a single file.

“1>>2 CD”
As before click the “browse” button and select the desired subtitle file. Then click “upload”.
Now select the dialogue sentence from the new text box that appears which u wish to set as the first line of the second subtitle file. Also enter the number of seconds after which the subtitle must be shown while watching the movie.
After the process gets completed, two links appear. Open the links in a new tab o window. Go to file menu in the tool bar of your web browser and select the option “save page as”. A new pop up window appears. Click the button “save”. Repeat the process for the second subtitle file.
Now you have got your single subtitle file split into two files.