Aegisub is a

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editing application. It is the main tool used for fansubbing, the practice of creating or translating unofficial subtitles for visual media by fans. It is the successor of the original SubStation Alpha and Sabbu. Aegisub's design emphasizes

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, styling of subtitles, and the creation of

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videos. It allows for many video processing bindings to process the timing, such as

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and AviSynth. It can also be extended with the Lua and

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scripting languages. The app's native subtitle format is

Advanced SubStation Alpha Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media. Subtitles might provide a transcription or translation of spoken dialogue. Although naming conventions can vary, caption ...

, which supports subtitle positioning and styling. Aegisub can export subtitles to other common formats as well, such as SubRip's ".srt" format, but at the cost of losing all other features except for raw text and basic timing. In fansubbing, Aegisub is used when translating and interpreting languages, creating and adjusting timing, editing subtitles,

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, quality checking,

lyric timing and karaoke text effects. However, different tools can be used to achieve the same effect, such as

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for typesetting, or a simple text editor like

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when providing translated text.

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* * * * rc://irc.rizon.net/aegisub Aegisub IRC channelon Rizon.net * * {{FOSS , state=collapsed Subtitling Free television software Translation software Lua (programming language)-scriptable software Software that uses wxWidgets Software that uses Scintilla

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