Custom font style for subtitles

[Paul Brown]

On Saturday, 28 August 2021 22:48:18 CEST vincent wrote:
> Hi Mehdi,
> 
> As far as I know, it is not (yet). However, you can use html font tags.
> 
> Instead of just typing text, you could do:
> |<font color="red" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" size="+1">Subtitle
> 
> text here</font>|
> 
> However, you would have to do that for each subtitle clip, so it would
> be good to either put this in a text editor on the side (so you can copy
> and paste).

OR... srt files are just text files. When you have generated the original 
subtitles, look for the .srt file in your project directory. You can process it 
automatically with any of the many non-interactive command line text 
processors available for Linux.

If you have your subtitles in a file called *subtitles.srt* for example,  that 
looks like this:

---
1
00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:06,033
I'm a Unix old-timer

2
00:00:06,033 --> 00:00:09,166
I cut my teeth on UNIX 5 and PDPs in the 70s

3
00:00:09,166 --> 00:00:12,166
I wrote programs in ed!

4
00:00:12,166 --> 00:00:14,433
When they said I should try Konsole,

5
00:00:14,433 --> 00:00:16,666
"Pah!" I thought,"Another terminal emulator!"

6
00:00:17,666 --> 00:00:19,600
Boy, was I wrong

[ETC]
---

You could do this from the command line this:

awk '{if ((NR % 4)-3 == 0) {printf "<font color=\"red\" face=\"Verdana, 
Geneva, sans-serif\">%s</font>\n", $0} else {print}}' subtitles.srt > 
subtitles.special.srt 

This will create a new file called *subtitles.special.srt* in which, every 
third line (the line containing the subs text) has been re-formatted with HTML 
tags. The resulting file looks like this:

---
1
00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:06,033
<font color="red" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">I'm a Unix old-timer</
font>

2
00:00:06,033 --> 00:00:09,166
<font color="red" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">I cut my teeth on UNIX 5 
and PDPs in the 70s</font>

3
00:00:09,166 --> 00:00:12,166
<font color="red" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">I wrote programs in ed!</
font>

4
00:00:12,166 --> 00:00:14,433
<font color="red" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">When they said I should 
try Konsole,</font>

5
00:00:14,433 --> 00:00:16,666
<font color="red" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">"Pah!" I thought,"Another 
terminal emulator!"</font>

6
00:00:17,666 --> 00:00:19,600
<font color="red" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Boy, was I wrong</font>

[ETC]
---

And renders like what you can see in the attached screenshot.

Importing the file later into Kdenlive so the subtitles can be burned into the 
video also works fine, as you can see in the attached Kdenlive screencap.

Cheers 

Paul

> > Hi Kdenlive developers and users,
> > 
> > I have been enjoying the subtitle editor tool in Kdenlive that I used
> > to miss in old versions a fews years ago. I can add, import, export
> > srt subtitles.
> > However, I don't see a way of customizing font style for subtitles I
> > want to burn to the videos. Is subtitle styling supported in Kdenlive?
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Mehdi
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