Language-agnostic automatic synchronization of subtitles with video, so that subtitles are aligned to the correct starting point within the video. The implementation for this project was started during HackIllinois 2019, for which it received an Honorable Mention (ranked in the top 5 projects, excluding projects that won company-specific prizes).<\/p>\n
Install<\/p>\n
First, make sure ffmpeg is installed. On MacOS, this looks like:
\nbrew install ffmpeg<\/p>\n
Next, grab the script. It should work with both Python 2 and Python 3:
\npip install git+https:\/\/github.com\/smacke\/subsync<\/p>\n
Usage
\nsubsync video.mp4 -i unsynchronized.srt > synchronized.srt
\nor<\/p>\n
subsync video.mp4 -i unsynchronized.srt -o synchronized.srt<\/p>\n
For more check out https:\/\/github.com\/smacke\/subsync<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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