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Quick Sub 2: Video Subtitling
Quick, creative video subtitling with direct canvas control.
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Quick, creative video subtitling with direct canvas control.
78 followers
Quick Sub 2 is a streamlined macOS application built from the ground up in SwiftUI for creative video subtitling. Get independent control over text styling, container geometry, and rotation angles. Drag subtitle objects directly on the video canvas for perfect positioning, apply batch styles across multiple objects with a single command, and use a dynamic timeline that scales from 0.1x to 10x for precision timing. The application has full native Undo/Redo stacks andqsub2 file persistence.
Quick Sub 2: Video Subtitling
Quick Sub 2: Video Subtitling
@thys_beesman I see. Subtitle layers are indeed a bit too slow to move. I'll take a look to see what I can do about it in a week or two. I can't do it now since I've started working on a new project.
Does the dynamic timeline let you snap to frames or audio cues, or is it strictly time-based scrubbing? Trying to gauge how it handles tight lip-sync adjustments.
Quick Sub 2: Video Subtitling
@halilekinmn7y It does not snap to a frame at this moment. I may take a look in the near feature. But I can't do it at this time since I've already started working on a new project.
the direct canvas control is what most subtitle tools get wrong. dragging text exactly where you want it instead of picking from preset positions sounds small but it's the difference between subtitles that work with your footage and ones that fight it. does it handle auto-transcription too or is it purely for styling and placement after you have the text?
Quick Sub 2: Video Subtitling
@shubham4real
You can click on the Save as Default button at the bottom of middle pane. Then you can either manually click on the Set saved settings at the top or turn on the Use saved settings checkbox under the canvas.
Nope. I have no intention of having such a feature for the time being.
The direct-canvas dragging plus batch styles across objects is the part that would actually save me time — positioning subtitles in a timeline-only editor is the tedious bit. Two workflow questions before I'd switch a video over: on export, does it burn the subtitles into the video, or can it also output a separate .srt/.ass sidecar so I can re-edit captions elsewhere? And does the .qsub2 file save styling as reusable presets I can reapply across a whole series, or does each new video start from scratch?
the on-canvas drag-and-rotate is the good part — the quiet killer is preview-to-export parity. canvas previews at display res, the burn-in composites at source res, so rotated text anti-aliases differently and slips off the placement you set by hand
ModuleX
Love that you can drag subtitle objects right on the canvas instead of fighting a properties panel. With that 0.1x to 10x timeline zoom, does the dragging snap to anything at the fine end, or is it pure freehand timing when you're lining up a fast cut?