Subtitle Edit 5.3.0.0

What's new in 5.3.0.0

Subtitle Edit 5.3 collects the work of 26 betas and 4 release candidates.
A summary of the changes since 5.2.0:

New features:

• Command palette (Ctrl+Shift+K)
• Import subtitles directly from DVD (IFO/VOB) with title picker, fast rip and exact cell timing
• Improve time codes (forced alignment) - re-time a roughly synced subtitle, with a speech-to-text check and waveform preview
• Remux video - video, multi-track audio (with mixing) and soft subtitles, also embedded CEA-608 captions
• Cut video transitions and fades, burn-in for selected lines, and 3D (half side-by-side / top-bottom) burn-in and image export
• Generate background music locally (ACE-Step)
• Compare: merge view, sync points, time tolerance and taking only text or timing per row
• Custom shortcut slots built from steps, AltGr modifier, per-plugin shortcuts and many new shortcuts
• Actor picker, "Set style..." quick pick, and "Shot in"/"Shot out" grid columns
• Reload the subtitle when it is changed outside Subtitle Edit, and "Frame numbers" time code mode
• Taskbar/Dock progress and prevent sleep for long jobs (speech to text, text to speech, burn-in, batch convert)

Video player and waveform:

• New FFmpeg video player with hardware decoding, audio track picker, real frame stepping and Linux sound
• Experimental mpv Metal video player on macOS, deinterlace setting, and customizable player controls
• Editor-style layout 14 with a track timeline, and layouts 12 and 13 (text box below the video)
• Experimental fast waveform renderer, "Show speech only" waveform, grid color and remembered zoom
• Waveform toolbar: initial text box, move-lines buttons, line breaks and wrapping

Speech to text:

• Crisp ASR: speaker detection (Sortformer), VAD choice (Silero, FireRedVAD, WebRTC, Whisper-VAD) and "Isolate speech"
• New models: Parakeet Ultra, Phonon-2, ReazonSpeech/Japanese Parakeet, Voxtral F16 and Index-Echo
• OpenAI-compatible API works with vLLM; retry of failed clips on selected lines

Text to speech:

• New engines: OpenAI-compatible TTS, ElevenLabs v4/v4 Turbo, KugelAudio and Supertonic-3
• Voice manager with transcripts, voice packs and copying voices between engines
• "Remove original speech", "Speak from current line" and "Play with speech"
• Optional Sidon cleaning of voice-clone reference audio

Auto-translate and AI:

• New engines: LM Studio advanced and API Route, model browsing, and new llama.cpp models (Index-Translate, TranslatePsy-AfriSLM) …

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