Janina Wittmann

Can you share the first few lines of the SRT file itself?

Sorry, do you mean like this:

Login Ver3_anonym.zip

Thanks for the instructions.

I didn't know I have to zip it.

There you go.

Hi Janina Wittmann

ok - now I can reproduce your problem.  But it is correct:

If you arrange the preview columns like the above and include the "Text" it's a bit easier to understand what's happening.  Segment #1 and #2 in Studio are actually subtitle ID 1 but Studio will segment them because of the full stop.  So this:

becomes this:

But i the preview it's this:

I think the reason you think the second one is missing is because the numbers you are looking at reflect the Studio segment numbering and not the subtitle ID.  So in this case the subtitle starts on segment #1.  The # column is showing you which segment each subtitle starts on.

The same thing occurs on segment #8 where the subtitle ID#6 starts on segment #7.

There is one problem I can see, in that when you add the ID column to the preview it should display the ID of the subtitle, but it doesn't.  That might have made it a bit easier to follow.  So it's currently blank like this:

It should be like this:

Hopefully this explains the problem for you and I'll log the issue of the missing ID numbers for resolution.

Janina Wittmann

The missing ID value is now logged as our reference SDLCOM-2385.  Just to make it easier to come back to later.

Hi Paul,

Thank you so much, this was very helpful.

So one last question is left: Is it possible to split a subtitle ID into two with SDL Trados?

In this case, I'd like to have subtitle ID#1 split into ID#1 and ID#2 at the full stop.

Thanks in advance and best regards,

Janina

Janina Wittmann

It is possible, but be very careful with this because Studio itself will not let you undo!  This is a problem that needs to be resolved as test splitting as part of a normal spotting process should be a given.

In the case of your file if you want to split it then you would split the segments in Studio and this will split the time codes and create the additional subtitle with the new timecodes if this is really what you want?

Given you already have the segmentation because of the full stop I think the easiest way to work with this is to use paragraph segmentation on your TM instead of the default.  This way when you open the file you'll have this effect instead of what you have now:

Note that now you have one Studio segment for each subtitle.  If you split the segment you get this:

Now you have seven subtitles instead of six and seven segments instead of six,  But note that the numbering is still different.  Please excuse me for saying this again (I just want to be sure you don't make a mistake), but you really should be sure you understand what is happening here because when you do this your subtitle file will now look like this:

Note that the structure of the file is changed as you now have these sentences being shown after each other as opposed to both being on the screen at the same time.

OK, but why is the first segment: "Welcome to this short introduction video of FUN. FUN can be accessed using the link displayed on the screen now" still in the same line, respectively, still has the same ID in the subtitle data preview?

I'd need it like:

subtilte ID#1 "Welcome to this short introduction video of FUN."

subtitle ID#2: "FUN can be accessed using the link displayed on the screen now"

Janina Wittmann

Your original file does not look like this.  The structure is like this:

So why do you need it to be different?  Is it because you need to have two separate subtitles or because you just want them to be the same when you are working with the segment number in Studio matching the ID of the subtitle?

I need to have two separate subtitles.

I think this is too long for one subtitle, so I'd like to break it for better readability while watching the video.

Janina Wittmann

ok.  In my opinion you should change your process and do this:

1. copy the content from the word file into an srt file
2. open the srt file in subtitle edit
3. go through the subtitles and complete a thorough spotting exercise to make sure the source is as you would like to see it, splitting merging as needed
4. only then add the file to Trados Studio and translate as required

That will make it a lot easier for you and will ensure you can use normal segmentation rules which will be better for re-use longer term on more projects.

Perfect, thanks Paul. :)

Perfect, thanks Paul. :)