Bug fixes: • Fixed three potential crashes. • Updated the help.
New features: • Quick Look previews of subtitle files and Subs Factory projects in the Finder. Bug fixes: • Fixed a crash at launch on Intel-based Macs. • Minor user interface fixes.
New features: • Keyboard shortcuts are now fully customizable. • The buttons on the rows of the subtitles table are now hidden to leave more room for the text: show them by hovering over the icon at the end of the row. • Multiple subtitles can now be selected at once, for group actions: moving, deleting, formatting and merging. • Subtitles can now be cut, copied and pasted, including to and from external editors. • New contextual menu when right-clicking the timeline. Bug fixes: • Better detection of single clicks on the timeline. • The window asking for the encoding no longer appears for files whose encoding is certain. • The video is now displayed in retina resolution on displays that support it. • Many small user interface improvements. • Many performance improvements. • Many other bug fixes.
New features: • New ReSync window, fully refreshed, now with a preview ! • A subtitle can now be split or merged with one click. • It is now possible to translate only a range of subtitles. • It is now possible to paste as unformatted text. • The subtitles table evolves and has now action buttons for each subtitle. • Translation, transcription and store windows optimized. • Subs Factory is now also localized in Spanish.
Fixes: - In some rare cases, Subs Factory would refuse to open .srt files. Now I've convinced it. - The « Always edit last displayed subtitle / Always display edited subtitle » setting was not taken into account when the video was playing. Now it is.
New features: - Transcription is finally here! Use the “Transcribe Audio” button in the video panel to automatically generate your subtitles! - Audio files without video are now supported. - New icon. - Added time formats using a period instead of a comma. Fixes: - Various bug fixes and potential crash fixes. - Various minor performance improvements. - Various cosmetic fixes related to macOS 26.
Some improvements under the hood to prepare for the future.
New features: - Corrupted .srt files can now be corrected right in Subs Factory, thanks to a new dedicated interface. - Subs Factory is now universal: it runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon processors. - Modern video formats: .webm files and AV1 encoded tracks can now be read. - Sentry is now used instead of AppCenter to collect anonymous crash and usage data. Fix: - The timeline was somewhat misaligned for some audio formats, it has now pinpoint accuracy.
Fix: - Fixed a crash at launch, mainly under macOS version 14.3.
Fixes: - Video files with a track that cannot be decoded by ffmpeg now display waveforms, and their subtitles can be extracted. - All fields in the resynchronization popover are now accessible by the tab key. - When entering a time in standard format, if more than three digits are entered after the comma, the last ones are ignored. - In the case where a subtitle track does not have any subtitle, the track is no longer automatically deselected during playback. - In the resynchronization summary sentence, the indication of the affected subtitles is now correct. - Several causes of crashes have been eliminated.
Fix - Timeline now works under macOS 14 Sonoma.
New features: - Characters counts are now displayed for each line as well. - More playback speed steps. Fixes: - Colors with transparency (8 hexadecimal digits) loading from .srt files do not make the application crash anymore. - Video origin change is now immediately reflected on the interface. - Subtitles edition field readability improved. - Several crash causes should be fixed (including with search/replace). - Interface was incorrectly stating "microseconds" instead of "milliseconds" (no functional change).
Fix: - UTF8-encoded subtitles files starting with BOM character can now be opened correctly.
Fix: - A crash cause has been eliminated.
Fix: - Subtitles on two lines are now correctly parsed from an srt file.
New features: - Now subtitles can be simply formatted (bold, italic, color, size,...). - Subtitles can now be displayed in white instead of the track color. - Palettes organization is now saved in project files. - It is now possible to use mouse or trackpad scrolling when the pointer is over the timeline or the counter. - Subtitles can now be translated from the "Create new subtitles..." button.
Fixes: - A bug has been fixed. - Some other little tweaks.
New features: - New automatic subtitles translation feature (needs In-App purchase). - Subtitles extraction from video file (SubRip/SRT tracks only). - Defining the video beginning timing. - Graphical improvements of the timeline for more readability. - New subtitles default duration can now be set in the preferences. - New icon. Fixes: - "Stop edition" now works even if editing field does not concern subtitle. - In french translation, in the new project window, buttons "Open" and "Create" were inverted. - Some other little fixes.
Fix: - Corrects a bug affecting some users, where menus were not filled in export popover.
Fixes : - Two crash causes eliminated, including one concerning the search/replace function.
New : - Export subtitles in the format of your choice thanks to the new "Custom export formats" function ! - Check your subtitles readability with the new "Maximum characters per second" constraint. - Simple display of characters count and characters per second in the edition field. - Create subtitles by option-click-and-drag in the timeline. - Delete subtitles and markers by option-click in the timeline. - Loop play on current subtitle. - Switch to subtitle edition with a keyboard shortcut or a double-click. - Click in timeline to go to timing. - Some graphical interface refinements. Fixes : - Controls to move amongst subtitles are now related to selected subtitle track. - "Go to previous subtitle" button now works correctly. - Timeline is now correctly updated when project changes length. - Clicking on a subtitle in the timeline goes to clicked location and not to beginning of subtitle anymore. - Graphical update for hiding palettes. - Other bug fixes. - Some performance improvements.
Fixes : - Waveforms now appear correctly for files where soundtrack is before video track. - Output .srt format has been fixed. - Unimplemented text format removed from export menu.
Fix : - A rebellious crash cause finally eliminated.
Fixes: - Two crash causes eliminated. - A missing translation added.
Fixes : - Interface was blurred under macOS 10.14 (Mojave). It is now crystal clear as expected. - Two other crash causes eliminated.
New : - Subtitles and markers can now be modified by dragging in the timeline. - Subtitle text can now be displayed in the timeline, and waveforms can be hidden. - Files can now be added to the project by drag-and-dropping them into the window. - Subtitle file encoding is now detected automatically. - Detailed timeline scale can now be changed. - Palettes have been reorganised to dedicate more room to the content and timeline. - Palettes list can now be accessed via the menu.
New : - Subtitles display can now be restricted to the normal size, and to the video bounds. - Subtitle edition can now be independent from subtitle currently playing. - Edited subtitle is now highlighted in the timeline. - Clicking on a subtitle in the timeline now selects it for edition. - Added "Change couples of markers to subtitles" menu and keyboard shortcut. - Default end marker and default second anchor marker in "ReSync" popover are now set to last marker. - User's manual has been updated. Fixes : - Now correctly selecting the default encoding at export. - When no video was loaded, clicking on a subtitle made the counter run. Not anymore. - Fixed a display bug with automatic Dark/Light mode selection. - Corrected some bugs appearing when video is shorter than subtitles file.
- Fixed annoying bug when deleting subtitle.
- Now displaying sound waveforms to help positioning subtitles. - Dark mode (macOS 10.14 Mojave and higher only). - Full Touch Bar support. - Subtitles are now displayed on the video, and markup properties are correctly rendered. - Subtitles included in video files can now be played. - Smoother backward play. - VLCkit has been replaced by mpv/ffmpeg, providing much more functionalities for Subs Factory development. - New "Subtitles" menu for subtitle edition, with associated keyboard shortcuts. - Time counter is now editable to quickly go to a precise timing.
- MicroDVD (.sub) and Tab Separated Values (.tsv) export. - Command buttons icons are now retina. - Using "Enter" when editing a subtitle in the "Editor" palette now creates a new line. - Text edition in the "Editor" palette now taken into account right away. - Some other minor bugs fixed.
- Reliability, ease of development, modernity and future-proof: the application has been translated to Swift, and the whole code has been reviewed for more simplicity and a much better ability to evolve. - Now all actions are undoable : resync, split, merge, replace,... - User interface improvements for better readability. - It is now possible to play the subtitles, even without a video. - Performances improvements. - Numerous bugs have been fixed.