SRT (SubRip) subtitle files

When you are working on a video translation, it is important to know how much text you can put on the screen at once. Change the value of the Line length limit (characters) field as needed.

Density means how much text is on the screen over time. You can set limits for Words per minute and Characters per second - the two most common measurements.

No warnings in memoQ itself during translation: when you confirm a segment, memoQ does not warn you if you are over these limits. You see which lines are longer than the limit only when you export the file.
However, the memoQ video preview tool shows all three values in real time when playing the video:

When you import an SRT file, each segment has its own time frame. You can change segmentation in two ways:

• Based on line breaks:
  • To import segments unchanged (flexible option): In the Newline handling dropdown, choose Convert to inline tags. When translating, you can put multiple lines into segments.
  • To make new segments at line breaks during import: In the Newline handling dropdown, choose Convert to inline tags and break segment. When translating, you can put multiple lines into segments.
  • To import segments unchanged (strict option): In the Newline handling dropdown, choose Convert to memoQ tags. When translating, you cannot put multiple lines into segments.
• Based on regular expressions:
  • memoQ normally does not break imported segments using segmentation rules. To change this: in the Regex-based segmentation dropdown, choose Language segmentation rules.

When you import an SRT file and some characters are garbled, try a different encoding: On the Encoding tab, clear the Automatically detect input encoding if possible check box. Go through the Select input encoding list to see which encoding works for the file.

To tell memoQ what encoding to use on export: Under Output encoding, clear the Same as input check box. In the Select output encoding dropdown, choose the encoding you want.

When you export translated subtitles with a Unicode encoding, you can tell memoQ how to handle Unicode byte order marks (BOMs): Choose an item from the Write BOM to Unicode-encoded files on export dropdown.