Main window

SubtitleProcessor's main screen contains a toolbar and 4 pages containing the Subtitle Editor, Movie Player, Translator and Settings windows.

The toolbar contains the following tools (accessible also via the right-click menu):

• About button - show the About box
• Load button - open a Load menu with these items:
• First subtitles - Open the first subtitles. These are the main subtitles and can be edited in the Editor and Player windows. They are also in the Translator window.
• Second subtitles - Open the second subtitles. These are used mostly in the Translator and in some of the Editor functions
• Media file - Open a DirectShow media file.
• Movie Description - Open a movie description file - containing paths to movie and subtitles
• DVD - Open a DVD disc or IFO file
• Workspace - Open a workspace.
• PlayList - Open a PlayList - list of media files to be played.
• Additional media stream - adds a media stream to the DirectShow filter graph.

Each menu item has a submenu with MRU (Most Recently Used) filelist. Upon selecting an item the icon on the main load button changes to indicate what will be opened by clicking on the button. The menu is opened by clicking on the arrow next to the button.

Subtitle menus have another item: Open in encoding. This item allows to explicitly select the encoding used in the subtitles file. There are multiple submenus grouping the encoding to various categories. Select the appropriate encoding and it will be used to transcode the file to the internal 16-bit representation. When no encoding is selected (Open... item), SP will check the file for Unicode BOM (Byte Order Mark) and use the appropriate Unicode encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16 etc.). If there is no BOM in the file, SP will use Windows default encoding (i.e. CP-1250 for Czech windows). There is no statistical detection.

• Save button - open a Save menu

This button opens the Save menu, which has the same main items as the Load menu. The items in Save menu have no subitems }except the Subtitles items). The icon of the Save button also changes to indicate current shortcut. When the save button displays a shortcut, that file is saved without displaying the save dialog (with the same name as it was saved before). The arrow displays the Save menu and the items in this menu display the Save dialog so the filename can be changed.

The Save subtitles items have the same encoding option as the loading items. Using this option the subtitles are saved in the specified encoding. When no encoding is selected, the original encoding will be used.

Save all - Quick-save 1. subtitles, 2. subtitles, Movie description, PlayList and Workspace at once. Subtitles are checked if they are changed before executing save action for them. This function can be configured in Settings - General - Save all function items, by default it will only save 1. and 2. subs. 

Save patches - save patches for subtitles, PlayList and Movie description for normal and DVD mode.

• File information panel - displays loaded files.
• Open window  - display either PlayList editor, Style editor or Subtitle properties.
• The button also has a menu for opening Style editor, Subtitles properties and PlayList editor
• After selecting an item from the menu, it's action becomas also the button's action, e.g. after selecting PlayList the button will be opening PlayList.
• Mode switching buttons:
• Frame mode - Switch edit fields and program mode to Frame mode
• Time mode - Switch edit fields and program mode to Time mode
• Exit button - Close the application

Below the toolbar there are tabs for selecting appropriate windows:

• Subtitle Editor
• Movie Player
• Translator
• Settings

• Language - select the language of SP's UI. This has the same function as the language option in Settings window and it is there just for convenience.
• Time display - displays various times or movie positions.