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At the start the app looks like this (click on an image to zoom):
As a start just drag your video from Windows Explorer into the field File or Folder. The same goes with a directory of multiple video files, eg. a series. The title will automatically be extracted from the name. All common notations are known (resulting from analysis of hundreds of videos) and the result will be good with very high accuracy. The app provides an extraordinary amount of tooltips that explain unknown things if the mouse hovers a short time over an element. Thus the usage should be pretty intuitive. Additionally there is a small question mark in the right top of each window that will open up directly an explaining web page. One time only you will have to tell Subtitler which languages you would like to have. They can be set up in the menu item Settings->Languages. We're already finished. You can now start to search and download subtitles by clicking the button Download. So it takes exactly 2 clicks, nothing more. Atlas Subtitler knows all relevant servers, i.e. those that offer at least 1000 or more subtitles. Most of them offer millions. Find out more on the Subtitle Servers page. There are two different approaches how servers identify subtitles to a video. One is by making a Hash code (calculation number) of the video by looking at the start and end of a video file. This is the most preferred way. Sometimes subtitles can't be found this way because there may be subtitles from another rip (extract) of the same video on the server. To find these, a search by title, season, episode and year is needed. With Subtitler this can be done in just one step (recommended). Please check the log to be sure that the correct subtitles were found. Sometimes there can be discrepancies in the numbering or simply mistakes entered by the users uploading the subtitle files. To suppress this Atlas Subtitler has a special highly effective filtering function, but even this one can fail at some occasions. If you are not happy with the automatic selection you can check the box Choose from Hand. In this case you will get a list with the found subtitle files where you can choose which one should be downloaded. Depending on the server you might first get a selection of matching TV show names resp. movie titles. You can recognize that on a green background:
The shows resp. movies are then searched and the subtitles found are displayed for selection:
If you want to have this list only if more than one file per language was found, you can check the box Only if more than one additionally. The fields Shift Timing by aso. are an integrated version of the dialog to shift timings. Downloading subtitles for a whole seriesFirst assert that all the videos of the series are in one folder. It's also okay if each part is in a subfolder inside this folder. Then drag and drop the main folder into the field File or Folder. If you are downloading by title, fill as much info as you have in the fields Title, Season and Year. If you have multiple seasons leave this empty. The download process will examine each file name and try to extract a part in the form "S01E02" or similar (case doesn't matter, leading zeroes are not required). Subtitler knows practically every notation for the season and episode part ever used (by analyzing thousands of files). It can also find information that is present in parent folders. For example, these constellations are also recognized:
What could be extracted overwrites the data coming from the dialog. So in the example picture above, subtitles for a series named "Predestination" for season 1 and episode 2 from any year would be searched for. Character Sets (Encoding)A decade ago the sublanguage files were specified to have always 'Western' (ANSI 1252) character set (see Wikipedia "srt file"). But in the UNICODE era today this is outdated. Atlas Subtitler features its own built-in logic that automatically determines the character set and converts it to the one specified in the player profile. This is usually UTF-8 with BOM (Unicode 8-bit, with the first few bytes of the file containing some extra info). UTF-8 has the advantage that most video players can handle it. The automatic character set analysis also recognizes the sometimes occurring mix of ANSI and Unicode and corrects them as well. If this heuristic fails, the correct character set can still be set manually via dropdown box. You will have to do this also in case you are using a non-western character set, for example Thai, Arabic, Vietnamese and so forth. Backup current subtitlesIf you have subtitles coming from another server or even such that were included in the original video, you may want to preserve them before downloading new ones. Atlas Subtitler has a button Backup to directly move them into a new subfolder named 'Subtitle Backup'. If files exist with the same name appendix numbers are automatically added. Preparation of subtitlesIf the checkbox Copy to Main is switched on, the best matching language file will automatically be copied to the main subtitle file and processed for the player. More about this here. Copy/MoveFor those people who have a NAS, a special video box like Dreambox, VU+ or just a big storage drive, there is a built in Copy/Move process that allows to directly put the video and its subtitles on them. Because this can be a long running process you will see a progress bar and an estimated end time. At the end you can let Subtitler exit, let the pc go to sleep or shut your PC down. The progress is also displayed in the Subtitler's icon in the taskbar. If you want to free up the PC for another task the copy/move operation can also be paused or the process priority can be changed. How to see the subtitlesTo see the downloaded subtitles just press the Play button. Subtitler will automatically hand over the main subtitle file to known players so you won't even have to activate it. If the subtitles are not displayed they must be activated manually in the player. Consult your player's manual how to do this (and send us a feedback (;-)). We recommend VideoLAN Client (VLC) because it's a free and open community solution. Without being handed over from Subtitler, VLC detects srt files automatically if they have the same filename but a different extension. For example if you have a video named "video.mp4" the most compatible subtitle file is called "video.srt". This is called the Main subtitles in Atlas Subtitler. You could also have an additional "video.eng.srt" with the language identifier inserted. VLC would also recognize subtitles in a subdirectory named "Subs" but since this is a non standard feature it's not supported in Atlas Subtitler. Inside VLC you can activate one of the found srt files using the menu "Subtitles".
In folder mode the Play button plays the biggest video found in the folder. So even if you have some samples there they won't interfere. Tips for using
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In case you are using a non-western character set, for example Russian or Thai, you will have to switch the dropdown box Encoding to your language's character set before starting to download. Please remember this tip if you see only scrambled subtitles.
Web Search: Searches on the web for the contents of the boxes using
the pattern for the web address specified in the 
