Meaning
Subtitle drift is a synchronization error that changes over the course of a recording instead of staying at one constant offset.
A practical example
A cue may be correct near the beginning but late near the end if the captions were prepared for a differently timed version.
What to check
A uniform time shift cannot repair changing drift. Compare several anchors and investigate edits, time stretching and source-version differences first.
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Continue: Subtitle editing
- SRT ↔ VTT converter
- Subtitle time shifter
- Fix a constant subtitle delay, then check readability
- SRT vs VTT: convert plain subtitles and check the result
- SRT subtitles
- WebVTT
- Subtitle synchronization
- Shift subtitles and convert SRT to VTT
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