Created attachment 147190 [details] double subtitle looks like this. SUMMARY *** Double Subtitles appear and even some phantom titles appear even though not seen on the editor view. *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE I think this is related to a complex arrangement of MTS clip with separate sound. The sound came from another video camera too. 2 video camera files one has better sound. I split the MP4 file (from samsung a50 phone) and deleted the video I used the MTS files someone gave me I also use unicode characters. OBSERVED RESULT Double subtitles.. 2 different fonts and positions overlapping . Also one subtitle appeared where it should not (on time line) Subtitles look fine in viewer window but not final result render EXPECTED RESULT expected subtitles as seen in edit viewer window SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Ubuntu Gnome 21.10 with latest update from late February 2022. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Subtitles are a nice feature. I suspect it has to do with separated audio from 2 video files. I hope that font can color can be point and click later on instead of html I DID NOT ADD CSS HTML.. I used pure default letters for this bug I also had a phantom subtitle which did not appear in the viewer window. I tried importing and exporting a zero srt file and the old one.. but still did not help. example srt with unicode. (cannot give more than one attachment?) 1 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:44,239 "Na hi verena verāni, sammantīdha kudācanaṃ; 2 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:53,680 Averena ca sammanti, esa dhammo sanantano"ti. 3 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:24,120 Majjārī = Female Cat 4 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:08,400 Hen 5 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:30,320 Cat eat the eggs 6 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:46,880 Cat eat the hen together with her eggs
two video files were made at the same time. The samsung a50 mp4 file had a clip on mic and better sound. Normally I use a single video file with sound. However, the focus was not locked and it was not good. So I "borrowed" the audio from the mp4 by ungrouping it in kdenlive and deleting vid. I used the mts video file for the video part and alligned the audio two tracks, muting the mts audio track.
Are you using VLC player or similar video player to watch your render video? Kndlive makes a .srt file in the same folder and players like VLC autodetect it . I spend 2 o 3 hours with this problem and the solution was turn off the subtitles on VLC.
I was able to use the latest appimage. I could not reproduce this. It seems from what I can remember.. I never manually added an srt file because I was making new videos and just clicking play. However, I was using vlc. I cannot reproduce this anymore. I dropped down to 20.04 from 22.04 due to being fed up with 22.04 and I have someone else editing the videos now. The subs is a new feature so standard repo will not have it. So I no longer have the same system. If you are a dev.. it would be good if the subs could have a transparent selectable background color, like in this video (time stamp given). https://youtu.be/BjmsRF_d4jg?t=89 When I was editing myself and not able to use subs .. I was making title cards . However, I had to manually make line breaks which took too much time. I just did a small mkv screen record test. My other real videos on my system are too long to bother. Leave this open.. I'll try to use an mp4 file made from my phone later today or tomorrow. I do some development, so I know some issues. Your time was appreciated. Kdenlive is the only stable free video editor for linux. I'm not sure why they even bother releasing these buggy useless other video editors.. They look nice though. Perhaps a Flutter KdenLive could be made one day?
I suffered from the same, until I came here. Not much about 'complexity' as supposed by the reporter. I created my own video clip, without, and added the subtitles later (23.04.3). I never intended to create a sub-title file, and yet I did, not knowing. Just turning it off in VLC actually brought the expected result. My suggestion, RFE, simply to implement: ask the user if a separate subtitle file is desired. I for one didn't want / need one. I just wasn't aware of its (automatic) existence.