Bug 434785

Summary:	Proposal: Operation to move subtitle to playhead
Product:	[Applications] kdenlive	Reporter:	Johan Vromans <jvromans>
Component:	User Interface	Assignee:	Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jk.kdedev
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Johan Vromans 2021-03-22 18:40:38 UTC

This is an enhancement request for an operation that speeds up adding subtitles.

Tentative operation name: "move subtitle to playhead", hereafter referred to as MSTP.

Semantics:
- When the playhead is BEFORE a subtitle, move the start of this subtitle to the playhead position.
- When the playhead is IN a subtitle, move the start of the subtitle to the playhead position.
- Otherwise it is ignored.

Rationale:
In most cases the text of the subtitles is available in some text document. You can create a subtitle and copy/paste all text lines into in. Make this subtitle long.
- Now start playing until the playhead is at the point where the next subtitle should start.
- Activate MSTP and the subtitles moves to the playhead.
- Continue to play until the playhead reaches the end of the subtitle.
- Use the scissors tool to split off the first line of the subtitles.
- Start playing until the playhead is at the point where the next subtitle should start, SMTP, etc...

Comment 1 Julius Künzel 2021-05-16 13:47:31 UTC

Thanks for your feature request! Like for all timeline clips you can use the "Resize Item Start" and "Resize Item End" action to do that. The default shortcuts are ( and ), adjust them in the settings if you want.

I close this report now. Feel free to reopen if you think this is wrong.

Comment 2 Julius Künzel 2021-05-16 13:48:17 UTC

Ah, one more hint: these actions affect the active track

Comment 3 Johan Vromans 2021-05-16 14:06:47 UTC

Thanks for the suggestion. It surely helps, but the frequent (and necessary) switching between the subtitle edit window and the track (to make it active) is still less than optimal.

Nevertheless I can live with it. Thanks again.