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Change Logs: EZTitles

EZTitles 7.0.6
May 23, 2025
- Bugs Fixed
- Fixed a bug where the Preview List reverted to its default size upon restarting EZTitles.
EZTitles 7.0.5
May 22, 2025
- Improvements
- New filter option for Find & Replace allows the operation to be performed only to a specific range of subtitles.
- All Global Commands can be performed for all unmarked or visible subtitles.
  The unmarked or visible range options are also available when exporting a file.
- EZTitles 7.0.5 comes with updated FFMPEG video libraries.
- Range selection options for all Global Commands can now be accessed directly from the keyboard using Alt+F.
- Bugs Fixed
- Issue with Subtitling Assistant leading to Another instance of EZTitles have changed the audio configuration error has been identified and fixed.
- The issue preventing the off-line cached license from being loaded for our OLM Services has been resolved.
- List Index out of bounds error caused when using Find & Replace for Teletext or Closed Captions projects has been resolved.
- The bug preventing the correct restoration of backed up settings when EZTitles is integrated with DropBox has been fixed.
- Access Violation error happening when missing to select a tack for import from a multi-track project has been fixed.
EZTitles 7.0.4
April 15, 2025
- Bugs Fixed
- An issue related to Open associated video with .ezt & .eztxml projects option has been resolved.
EZTitles 7.0.3
April 10, 2025
- New Features
- We added new option called Open Associated Video, which allows .ezt & .eztxml projects to be opened without automatically loading their associated videos. This feature is particularly useful when videos are stored on remote network servers.
  
  The option is enabled by default but can be deactivated from Preferences/Startup and Warnings or from File/Open.
- New option in Fix Subtitles is available. The option is called Keep In-cue Forced and is aimed at fixing overextended subtitles where a single subtitle overlaps with the cues of two or more subtitles.
- Word Wrap now includes a new option: Wrap only outside Safe Area subtitles. When enabled, Word Wrap will only adjust subtitles that are flagged as being outside the Safe Area.
- Improvements
- The length of exported QT MOV files can now be extended by up to 10 seconds. Previously, the exported MOV would end precisely at the last subtitle's endpoint.
- Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab can be used for navigating between the different sub-menus and pages within File/Details.
- The Dropbox cloud features have been updated to include increased timeout intervals, ensuring smoother integration and minimizing issues caused by slow or unstable connections.
- Bugs Fixed
- An issue related to ChatGPT's responses from ChatGPT Assistant being incorrectly split in some cases has been resolved.
- Bug preventing items from Clipboard history (Win + V) to be inserted in EZTitles has been fixed.
- The issue with the designation of comments when exporting to Excel (.xls, .xlsx) files has been resolved.
- The problem with working folder when Separate locations for Open/Save, Import and Export is enabled has been identified and fixed.
EZTitles 7.0.2
March 24, 2025
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug causing italics to be exported incorrectly in SRT files for subtitles with text formatted in more than one color has been resolved.
- Issue preventing using the TAB button to be assigned to a shortcut is now fixed.
- Problem causing the audio graph scaling to get reset after opening a new video has been fixed.
- Issue when using Send to Draft (List) leading to incorrect sorting the subtitles in the Draft List has been fixed.
- Bug causing Access Violation error when changing the active Profile has been resolved.
- Issue leading to Access Violation errors when opening .ezt files previously created by using Export Multiple Files has been identified and fixed.
- The issue preventing the Custom Text Import configuration from appearing during the creation of an Import Preset has been resolved.
EZTitles 7.0.1
March 13, 2025
- Bugs Fixed
- Issue preventing settings migration during installation and backup, if EZTitles is integrated with DropBox has now been resolved.
- We resolved and issue causing the wrong "Support and Subscriptions services expire" message when using EZTitles with Parallels Desktop on MAC OS.
- Issue causing Timeline to flicker, when EZTitles is not in default Windows theme has now been resolved.
- Issue related to Translate feature, when using Google engine, when the last subtitle in the project was empty has now been resolved.
- Issue casing In/Out-cue +/- 1 commands to respond slower has now been fixed.
- Rare issue casing EZTitles to show error during spellcheck, when Ignore Internet addresses & Check for capital letters after punctuation options are turned on has now been resolved.
- Visual issues in Help > Explore new features window have now been resolved.
EZTitles 7.0.0
March 10, 2025
- Automated Translation - DeepL and Google Translate engines are supported with an option to choose which one to use. DeepL covers all European languages, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian and Arabic. Google Translate, on the other hand, supports most languages.
  For more information please check the dedicated Help articles.
- ChatGPT Assistant is now part of EZTitles and can be used for a variety of tasks, including proofing or rewriting text, answering questions about terminology or idioms, and even for translation. The big advantage is that it is integrated into the program to eliminate the annoying cutting and pasting back and forth between the ChatGPT app or web browser and EZTitles.
  For details, please refer to the Help article.
- Multiple subtitle tracks - We have extended the two subtitle tracks functionality with an option to have an unlimited number of tracks. They can be used for various tasks such as overlapping subtitles in time (as in Version 6), adding forced narratives, multiple versions of the subtitles, or consolidating all translations into a single project.
  Everything you need to know about that is explained in detail in the dedicated Help topic.
- Linked subtitle tracks - All the tracks in a project (as mentioned above) can now be linked together, allowing you to edit the formatting, positioning, or timing of one track and have the changes apply to all linked tracks simultaneously.
  Please refer to this article for details.
- File and Track comparison - The File/Compare with functionality has been extended, allowing you to compare the active track with another renamed to Compare the active track with.
- Recent files - EZTitles now stores the history of up to 200 recently accessed project files, imported files and video files.
- Double-button shortcuts - You may now assign double button shortcuts in combination with Ctrl, Alt or Shift keys like Ctrl + L + K or Shift + K + Alt + L.
- Export Blu-ray/DVD images, DVB subtitles, QuickTime MOV - These exports haven’t gone anywhere! They’ve simply been organized into the Export Subtitles menu for easy access.
- Macros changes - Macros object model have been updated and now includes functions and methods for using all subtitle tracks./br>In addition, due to a change in recent Windows 11 update, HasSecondSubtitlesTrack and ActiveTrack properties are replaced by TrackIndex properties of the SubtitlesTracks object.
- Windows 7 and Windows 8 End of Life - We’d like to inform you that with the release of EZTitles 7, we are officially ending support for Windows 7 and Windows 8. While we worked hard to maintain compatibility longer than originally planned, the latest technology can no longer function on computers using these older systems. We appreciate your understanding as we move forward.
EZTitles 6.2.39
January 9, 2025
- New Features
- The MCC CEA-708 Closed Captions export now includes new transmission mode compatibility option intended to increase the interoperability with third-party products: Adobe Premiere and Telestream's Switch. We recommend selecting the respective option when the output will be used by one of these tools and keep the "default" in all other situations.
- Improvements
- Compatibility options required to run EZTitles under virtual machine on MAC systems will be applied automatically.
- Subtitles exported as TTML1 & TTML2 and IMSC1 & IMSC 1.1 now include <xml:id> tag for increased compatibility with third-party systems.
- There are several changes made to the USF export:
  - There is a new option to distinguish the exported file as either "open" or "closed" subtitles.
  - Exported USF files will not include color tags for white text, otherwise they might be interpret as additional control code character by third party apps.
  - Improved metadata (Language and Title) handling when exporting USF files.
- Bugs Fixed
- Issue with the Safe Area override option for Open/PAC projects has been identified and fixed. Safe Area override is meant for use only in Open/PAC project types and previously it used to affect Teletext/PAC projects.
- Encoding tag, "encoding=UTF-8", when exporting IMSC-Rosetta Timed Text files has been modified and will always be exported in uppercase letters. Previously, it used to be exported in lowercase letters which turned out to be an issue for some QC systems.
- Bug causing "List index out of bounds" error when trying to export project containing empty subtitles as USF has been resolved.
- Problem causing some pop-on captions to not be displayed after pausing the video or switching to a different CC channel in third party apps has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.38
November 13, 2024
- Improvements
- Rubies rendering when displayed by some fonts, like the Google Fonts, have been improved and as a result rubies will appear much closer to the text they are inserted over.
- Raised subtitles, appearing in the top half of the screen, imported from EBU STL will now be displayed as aligned to the top Safe Area margin. They will be offset from the top margin as much as needed to preserve the original row positioning from the source EBU STL file.
- Added tts:extent attribute to the <tt> element when exporting TTML2 files and the outline color is specified in pixels. This attribute defines the coordinate space for the document and is required when using pixel values for other attributes in the document.
- EZTitles now supports 890 files in Mongolian.
- Added support for more metadata when exporting USF subtitle format. The matching values from Project Details are automatically included in the USF file.
- Tab characters, "U+0009 ", will now be imported from PAC files and will render as a regular space character. Previously, they used to be discarded completely.
- Bugs Fixed
- Problem with Subtitling Assistant, causing "Extract transcription for subtitles" to create subtitles only for part of the whole project, has been resolved.
- Issue related to incorrectly calculating _r_quantisationregion when exporting Imsc-Rosetta Timed Text files has been identified and fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.37
October 14, 2024
- Improvements
- New option when importing SCC files is available. It allows CC data from a specific CC channel to be imported when the SCC contains CC data on more than one channel.
- New option that enables/disables ENM (Erase Non-Displayed Memory) control code from affecting the Time to Process is available for projects in Closed Captions mode. We advise to keep it disabled to reduce the Time To Process needed unless working with CPC-715 .onl and Caption Inc .cin formats. The ENM control code is essential for calculating Time to Process for these two formats.
- Bugs Fixed
- Rare issue causing the text to suddenly stop showing on screen after importing a video file has been identified and resolved.
- Bug causing Fix Subtitles - Snap to top/bottom safe area to continuously report that some subtitles have been modified is now fixed.
- Issue related to Find & Replace being unable to find complex characters, composed or two or more symbols like a letter with an accent, after importing RTF/DOC/DOCX or Timed Text files or pasting the text directly from other text editing applications has been solved.
- Bug causing Find & Replace related macros to affect the loaded Reference file has been fixed.
- Issue leading to some characters not being present in the compressed font file exported along with a DLP XML file in some situations has now been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.36
August 19, 2024
- Improvements
- SubStation Alpha (.ssa/.ass) export has been redesigned and now provides new options:
  - To select Wrap Style;
  - To choose Primary, Secondary, Outline and Back colors;
  - ScaledBorderAndShadow is always "yes" in the output file.
- SubStation Alpha (.ssa/.ass) import has been modified to provide improved handling of files containing overlapping subtitles.
- Bugs Fixed
- Issue related to the import of bi-lingual subtitles from TTML files has been fixed.
- The option to Delete spaces before punctuation will now correctly be recorded as part of a Macros.
- Bug causing the Auto-correct dictionary to sometimes not be loaded or to display entries for wrong language has been identified and fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.35
June 25, 2024
- Improvements
- EBU-TT-D for BBC - ebuttm:conformsToStandard parameter has been updated to comply with BBC's latest guidelines.
- Bugs Fixed
- Fixed is an issue which used to incorrectly report subtitles with vertical text in them as Outside of Safe Area when exporting XML and Images in the DLP Cinema and DCDM (SMPTE 428-7) formats.
EZTitles 6.2.34
May 14, 2024
- Improvements
- Starting Subtitling Assistant from command line will now display pop-up window indicating details about the audio analysis.
- The EZTitles Properties, accessible by right clicking on an .ezt/.eztxml file, will display more statistics for active subtitles, total subtitles time and video duration (frames).
- There's a new parameter to indicates the timecode standard of a video analyzed by Subtitling Assistant from the command line.
- The USF import and export have been redesigned to achieve better compatibility with third-party tools.
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug causing positioning data from subtitles with no text to be lost when exporting SubStationAlpha files has been fixed.
- Bug leading to exporting incorrect vertical position in IMSC1/1.1 files in some situations has been fixed.
- Issue causing the auxiliary data files to be created in the Users folder when video has been opened from the command line in some situations has been resolved.
- Problem with the option to export Compressed font file with the DCDM (SMPTE 428-7) export when the input file contains two tracks has been resolved.
- Issue with the language metadata passthrough when exporting Apple ITT and Paramount Pictures TTML has been resolved.
- Bug leading to "Can't use binary search on unsorted lists" error to pop-up when doing frame rate conversions on DLP XML files, containing stereoscopic depth data, has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.33
March 11, 2024
- New Features
- New option for frame rate conversion is available in Titles/Recut(Offset). The new timecodes will be stretched or shrunk by a factor of the original frame rate divided by the targeted frame rate.
- There is a new file Merge option that can be used to match subtitles by timecode.
- The option to Rollback changes from an earlier Labeled Revisions have been expanded to also enable copying of the individual attributes: Subtitle's Cues, Formatting, Positioning and Text.
- Improvements
- Find Replace - Set replaced text color offers new option to format the replaced text in Default Color, as set in Project Settings/Effects.
- SCC files containing extra space in the heading line can now be imported.
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug with Find Replace has been identified and fixed. As a result it'll now be possible to replace only the words/phrases that are formatted in specific color, font or are underlined without modifying the remaining instances that don't match these criteria.
- Exporting DCDM (SMPTE 428-7) subtitles as PNG Images will also always include compressed copy of the font file. This is needed for compliance with certain equipment.
- Bug common to the DLP XML and DCDM (SMPTE 428-7) export functions causing subtitles with soft shadow applied to be reported as Out of Safe Area during export has been found and fixed.
- Issue common to the DLP XML and DCDM (SMPTE 428-7) export functions and causing the "HPosition" attribute to be discarded in some situations when exporting cropped PNG Images has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.2.32
February 16, 2024
- Improvements
- Improved the handling of empty subtitles when exporting to SSA/ASS format.
- Bugs Fixed
- Fixed an issue causing colors not importing correctly from SSA/ASS files.
- Incorrectly used accents/diacritics no longer cause the Find/Replace to freeze.
EZTitles 6.2.31
January 22, 2024
- Improvements
- Timeline colors in Graphite theme for Detailed and Strip of Frame views have been modified to further increase contrast between the displayed elements.
- Option to select EBU STL character code tables (Latin, Arabic, Cyrrilic, Hebrew, Greek) when configurirng Open/DVD project is now available. Unsupported characters will be displayed as unprintable in the main editor but will also be caught by Check Subtitles.
- Split Subtitle command will now keep vertical positioning achieved by using the Fine Move commands.
- New option is available allowing subtitles from the main track to be indicated as "open" or "closed" when exporting 890 files.
- Bugs Fixed
- Minor issue causing new line to be inserted to a subtitle's comment after using Merge with Next/Merge with Previous command has been fixed.
- Bug leading to the text being displayed by a "system" font after loading Project Template configured with a font that isn't currently installed has been resolved. Text will now be displayed with Arial font.
- Issue with Split text to subtitles has been indetified and fixed.
- Bug causing characters represented with HTML referece codes to be incorrectly imported from SAMI files has been fixed.
- Certain style override options found in SubStation SSA/ASS files will be ignored on import. Previously, files containing such styles couldn't be imported.
- Issue leading to subtitles being displayed outside of Safe Area margins after importing EBU-TT file has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.2.30
November 22, 2023
- We're sad to announce that EZTitles 6.2.30 no longer provides integration with Google Drive due to a upcomming change in Google Drive's API which will not allow us to continue synchronizing EZTitles' settings and templates. Of course, Google Drive may still be used for keeping and synchronizing projects and videos across all your devices.
  
  If EZTitles starts with differently looking settings, please check this article.
- Improvements
- There is a new option available for the Apple iTunes Timed Text export allowing the offset to be exported and indicated in the "<div>" element of the exported file.
- Global Format options have been improved and now include options change presentation for all text lines except the first or second one.
- Fix Subtitles include three new options: "Remove rubies", "Remove Boutens" and "Convert horizontal groups text to normal".East Asian language related options are accessible after activating "East Asian text scripts enhancements" in Edit/Preferences/Editing.
- Subtitling Assistant now supports Icelandic.
- Display coordinates present in SRT files will not be displayed as part of the text even if the Import display coordinates option isn't activated.
- Translated Language, as specified in File/Details, will be exported as part of the metadata of a Softitler TXT files should the Original Language is missing.
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug related to incorrect or missing renderinging of the anti-aliasing color when exporting bitmaps for Sonic Scnarist and other 4-color systems has been resolved.
- Problem causing the Intelligent commands to not work as expected for 50fps projects if the Timecode Format is set to 25fps has been fixed.
- Bug causing "<", ">" and "\" characters to be omitted when importing WebVTT files have been resolved.
- Issue preventing new project templates to be saved if the ezt6ProjectSettings.ini was hidden is now fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.29
October 12, 2023
- New Features
- EZTitles introduces improved speech-recognition with speaker diarization (speaker changes) support for several more languages: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Russian and Turkish. Along with the better speaker diarization comes and improved punctuation which in return helps the Subtitling Assistant to split the translation into subtitles more efficiently.
- We are happy to announce that EZTitles now supports for import and export the brand-new IMSC-Rosetta Timed Text format.
- EZTitles 6.2.29 adds second new import feature allowing import of MacCaption projects (.cca).
- Improvements
- TTML2 and IMSC 1.1 import and export features are modified to support shadow effect.
- New Check Subtitles option is avialable that enables the user to quickly locate subtitles containing specific number of lines.
- Color indicator has been added to EZTitles' status bar to show the color code of the selected text.
- New option to automaticlaly switch on/off the Num Lock button on the keyboard has been added to the Preferences/Startup and Warnings menu.
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug causing control code for black background to be incorrectly added in some situations to the exported Teletext EBU STL file has been fixed. Black background is part of the default presentation for teletext subtitles and its control code may be skipped in these situations.
- It's now possible to set the language to Norwegian, without the "Bokmål" or "Nynorsk" annotation, when exporting DLP Cinema XML as well as other Timed-Text formats.
- Issue causing Subtitling Assistant to hang and respectively crash if the Natural Language Processing end-point doesn't respond on time has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.2.28
August 15, 2023
- Improvements
- New parameter <programme_start_tc> is available for use with Custom Text Format and Custom Image and Script export options. It's designed to save program's start timecode saved in File/Details.
- New feature check is available for DLP XML and DCDM (SMPTE 428-7) XML export options. It'll show warning whenever the exported files have no Title specified.
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug leading to incorrect billing of tokens when analyzing the video in sections with Subtitling Assistant in some situations has been fixed.
- Bug causing noise during playback of some videos has been fixed.
- Issue with the display of timecode controls in the main part of the GUI when the windows scaling options are set to 300% has been resolved.
- Access Violation error occurring while spell checking (configured with MS Word) in some instances has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.27
July 5, 2023
- New Features
- Added support for the Netflix Annotation Standard (compatible with Originator CLQTT). Now comments in EZTitles could be exported as a separate metadata element for each subtitle. The metadata imported from such files will be available in the comments.
- Improvements
- Updated the included FFmpeg decoder to version 5.1.3.
- Added an option to Auto generate new Font URIs every time exporting a DCDM (SMPTE-427-7) XML file.
- The SoftNI SUB export is changed so it won't include alignment tags for Bottom Center aligned subtitles.
- Added a new options to import and export SRT files with X/Y coordinates for positioning.
- Bugs Fixed
- Fixed an issue causing the Insert blank subtitle on the first frame of the programme option in the EBU for ARTE export to not work when certain conditions are met.
- Fixed an issue when exporting italics and colors in SoftNI SUB format. Now the text will have the proper closing tags.
EZTitles 6.2.26
June 16, 2023
- Bugs Fixed
- An issue that could prevent EZTitles from connection to the Subtitling Assistant services and checking for updates on older Windows versions has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.25
June 14, 2023
- Improvements
- QuickTime .mov export - options to select which of the loaded tracks to be exported in the output .mov are now available.
- The Production Scripts import feature has been improved to more accurately detect if In- and Out-cues have been mixed with the text.
- Programme Start TC set in File/Details will now be used for Closed Captions projects to determine if the first caption in the project can be loaded in time. Warning will be displayed in the Preview list, as well as by Check Subtitles, in the case that it actually needs more time to be fully loaded.
- SCC Export - the Programme Start timecode parameter will now be used to check if the first caption from the exported file can loaded in time. If there's an issue with it, a warning message will be displayed. EZTitles will still try to move the first caption forward to ensure it could be loaded in time.
- Bugs Fixed
- Closed Captions - bug with the Export in upper case (alternative charset) option causing accented characters to sometimes lose their accent has been resolved.
- QuickTime .mov export - issue leading to hidden subtitles or subtitles from the loaded in the project Reference file to become visible in the exported QuickTime .mov file has been resolved.
- Subtitling Assistant - bug causing two of the files (~aad.dat and ~aad.session) generated by it to be created when opening a video, even though the Automatically collect Subtitling Data is turned off, has been fixed.
- Subtitling Assistant - problem when analyzing the same video, in sections, in two EZTitles instances has been solved.
- Custom Text Export - problem with the <num> parameter when used for exporting RTF/DOC Table or Excel Table has been resolved.
- Small issue related Paste subtitles in the Preview list and using the Recut from current position option has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.24
May 15, 2023
- New Features
- There is a new option to export subtitles as QuickTime .mov with Alpha. The output video can later be inserted as a separate video track in NLE tools such as Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro.
- Improvements
- New entries to a custom Negative dictionary can be entered directly from the context menu, appearing when right clicking on a word in the main editor.
- There's a new option available for the SoftNI import allowing unknown formatting tags to be ignored during import. Previously, they used to appear as part of text.
- DCDM (SMPTE 428-7-2007) XML Subtitles export - new option enables changing the format for the IssueDate parameter.
- Comments from a file can now be added to the current project using the Append Comments option available with Merge Subtitles.
- Bugs Fixed
- Issue causing horizontal alignment of Closed Captions with 31 or 32 characters per line to be inconsistently indicated has been fixed. Now, such lines will always be displayed and indicated as center-aligned.
- Bug causing EZTitles to hang and subsequently crash when editing existing Macros has now been fixed.
- Bug causing EZTitles to hang and subsequently crash when changing the Japanese IME input method with a keyboard shortcut has been identified and fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.23
March 28, 2023
- Improvements
- A few improvements related to using EZTitles and all of its online features through proxy server.
- Option to specify Stream PID when exporting FFMPEG compatible DVB files.
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug causing false-positive Safe Area warnings for top aligned subtitles in certain situations has been resolved.
- Issue causing some Thai characters to be incorrectly exported in 890 is now fixed.
- Fix is an issue with Find&Replace when using Wildcards to change character case of the found phrase.
EZTitles 6.2.22
March 16, 2023
- Improvements
- The DLP XML export has been improved and offers two new options:
  - Option to export the language as RFC 4646 code;
  - Option to remove the Region(Country) identification tag from the language.
- The DCDM (SMPTE 428-7-2007) export now offers an option to remove the Region(Country) identification tag from the language.
- Bugs Fixed
- A few issues related to a recent change in Comments have been resolved. These include:
  - Access Violation errors during startup;
  - Comments changing background when video is playing;
  - Pasting of formatted text from Word or other text editing applications;
  - Comments disappearing when the comments window is undocked.
- Bug with the export of "4 color" indexed images when Preview subtitles on black box was turned on has been fixed.
- Problem importing SCC captions created for 59.94fps has been resolved.
- Issue with the import of EBU-TT files when the subtitles have more than 2 text lines with different horizontal alignment has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.21
February 22, 2023
- New Features
- Exporting of .rtf, .doc and .docx files with tables as well as MS Excel files with custom layout is possible using the Custom Text Format export option.
- Find & Replace is now capable of replacing comments' text by using the respective "Replace in comments" option.
- Improvements
- The Production Script import option now provides additional functionally to insert all "skipped" text as comment to the respective subtitle.
- Bug Fixes
- "Start of Line" and "End of Line" Find&Replace search options will now be recorded correctly in Macros.
EZTitles 6.2.20
February 1, 2023
- New Features
- Two new Timed-Text based formats are supported:
  - Paramount Pictures TTML
  - NBCUniversal IMSC 1.1
- Bug Fixes
- Issue causing "Access Violation" error message when importing MCC files with incomplete data has been fixed.
- Find&Replace - the label indicating that the "Color is not" filter is selected has the correct wording now.
EZTitles 6.2.19
November 29, 2022
- Improvements
- 3 full stops will automatically be converted to ellipsis character U+2026 when exporting Netflix-TT files. This is required by the most recent changes in the Netflix Timed Text Style Guide.
- The Macros functionality has been expanded and it is now possible to display and use simple input forms. For more details, please check the InputBox and InputBoxEx functions in the supplied with the installation EZTitlesMacrosObjectModel.pdf document.
- Bug Fixes
- Issue related to the import of PAC files and causing spaces on certain positions to be discarded and not displayed has been fixed.
- Bug causing the Default Row option, defined at Edit->Preferences->Editing, to sometimes change was identified and resolved.
- Problem related to the incomplete and incorrect display of some diacritic marks and accents in Syriac scripts has been resolved.
- Issue causing the thumbnails track in the Timeline to keeps resetting to its default size has been fixed.
- Several issues leading to incorrect behavior of the Draft and Log lists when removing or deleting subtitles from them have been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.18
November 22, 2022
- Bugs Fixed
- Access Violation error preventing EZTitles from starting on Windows 7 with missing Windows Platform Update is fixed. Now, an informative message will pop-up suggesting to install the missing update.
- Issue related to typing text in Preview mode while the video's playing and causing the text of the current subtitle to disappear if the In- or Out-cues have not yet been set has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.2.17
November 16, 2022
- New Features
- New option "Snap In-cue if Before- plus After cut interval is shorter than Min. Interval" is available in Project Settings/Cues. It's aimed at achieving compliance with Amazon Prime timing requirements and more specifically:
  C. If there is one subtitle before and one subtitle after the shot change, the first subtitle should end 2 frames before the shot change, and the second subtitle should start on the shot change.
  To achieve this with EZTitles:
  activate the new option and set Min. Interval = 2 frames, Threshold= 3 frames and Gap= 0 frames.
  Enabling "Snap In-cue if Before- plus After cut interval is shorter than Min. Interval" will also affect Check Subtitles and Fix Subtitles.
- Improvements
- Language codes available when exporting Netflix Timed Text files have been updated. If a specific code isn't currently present in the list it can always be typed in manually after selecting "Custom" from the language drop-down menu.
- Bugs Fixed
- Issue causing subtitles to be displayed a frame or two later on the screen when video is playing has been fixed.
- Problem leading to reading speed or duration discrepancies when checking the same project on different computers has been resolved. It was result of difference in the CPU instructions responsible for rounding fractions.
- Bug with the audio track selection options when starting EZTitles from command line has been solved.
- Bug with Find & Replace when using the "Match Case" option has been fixed.
- Issue with character position indicator displayed in status bar has been resolved.
- Problem causing video picture to not show/load when double clicking on an .ezt/.eztxml project from Explorer has now been solved.
- Issues leading to Access Violation errors when importing certain .docx/.doc/.rtf or .mcc files have been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.16
September 14, 2022
- Improvements
- Handling of the MS Word Security Warning, indicating Macros settings need to be adjusted or Macros disabled, is improved and will no longer appear behind other windows. For more details how to resolve the warning itself, please check this article.
- The MS Word isn't your default app for viewing documents warning has been removed as it's no longer needed.
- Bugs Fixed
- Issue related to "blinking" of the secondary display when starting EZTitles, if Second Monitor Preview is enabled, has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.2.15
September 8, 2022
- New Features
- New option to change Outline effect's opacity is available in Project Settings->Effects. Outline's opacity will be preserved when exporting:
  - DLP Cinema XML (both script and images);
  - DCDM (SMPTE 428-7) (both script and images);
  - TTML1 and TTML2;
  - IMSC1 files;
  - SMPTE-TT (Image Profile);
  - OOYALA Timed Text;
  - DVB Subtitles;
  - All image based exports for Blu-ray/DVD that supports opacity: BMP 32bit, TIFF 32bit, PNG 8bit and PNG 32bit.
- Bug Fixes
- Bug causing Find&Replace and Check Subtitles to incorrectly report subtitles containing only numbers as Uppercase characters has been fixed.
- Bug incorrectly allowing the Escape button to close/hide the Preview List when it was undocked is now fixed.
- Issue related to importing Closed Captions files and causing special characters to be displayed twice on the screen has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.2.14
August 16, 2022
- New Features
- Added support for Afrikaans (South Africa) language in Subtitling Assistant. You could find the list of all supported languages here.
- Improvements
- Using the Ignore All command during spell checking will now save the ignored words to your project saved in EZTXML format.
- The WebVTT importer will now properly handle position values that use fractional numbers.
- Bugs Fixed
- Fixed an issue that caused the "Out-cue snap to shot" command to snap to the wrong shot change in certain cases.
- Issue causing the "Check for capital letter after punctuation" option of the spell checker to incorrectly report the lowercase word after three full stops (ellipsis).
- Fixed an issues that could prevent Subtitling Assistant to analyze the audio when using a license from On-Line Licenses Manager.
- A bug causing erroneous results when using an apostrophe in the Auto Correct search term is now fixed.
- Fixed an issues that incorrectly disables the Ignore All spell checker command in certain cases.
- Bug causing EZTitles to start in an inconsistent state after double-clicking on a file in Windows File Explorer is now fixed.
- Fixed a bug that causes wrong font information to be included in EBU-TT-D after exporting EBU-TT compliant file from Teletext mode.
- Fixed an issue causing EZTitles to sometimes crash when trying to use Thesaurus.
EZTitles 6.2.13
August 1, 2022
- New Features
- New option to check if the next letter after sentence ending punctuation (full-stop, question mark,etc.) is available in Tools->Proofing->Spell Checker.
- New option to change presentation for the lines typed in with Font1 or Font2 is available for Titles->Format.
- Find&Replace offers new options to change letter case for the replaced text.
- Check results can now be exported as MS Excel file for further QC/verification.
- Improvements
- Colors configured through the custom color presets will now be saved for future use.
- Rendering quality for 2bits/pixel DVB has been improved.
- Corrupt dictionary files will no longer deny EZTitles from starting.
- Various visual and theme related improvements of the whole EZTItles GUI.
- Bugs Fixed
- Problem with the "Snap subtitles to top/bottom safe area" option of Check Subtitles and Fix Subtitles has been identified and resolved.
- Issue causing the vertical position to suddenly change while adding subtitles in Preview mode has been fixed.
- Bug causing space characters to get trimmed when exporting to EBU STL has been resolved. The issue used to happen when the words around the space character were formatted with the "Default" color and visually identical color from the color palette.
- The "em-dash" character (U+2014) used to be incorrectly displayed as "supported" character in CEA-708 mode while in fact it's not supported in CEA-708.
- Access Violation error happening when changing displays or after waking up the computer and leading to incorrect drawing of the subtitles in the Preview List has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.12
July 19, 2022
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue in EZTitles Merge feature that could cause inconsistent results when subtitles without text are present in the project.
EZTitles 6.2.11
July 12, 2022
- New Features
- New option enabling automatic backup of all EZTitles's settings is available and turned on by default. This way, settings backups will be created when starting EZTitles for the first time each day.
- Improvements
- User Profiles can now be renamed directly from the Profiles drop-down menu.
- Context menus displayed when right clicking on an item in EZTitles will behave better when Primary and Secondary mouse buttons have switched functions.
- Color range for some videos is now normalized. Previously, the picture might get a little darker or brighter when played in EZTitles compared to the original video.
- Bug Fixes
- Issue causing serious slow-down when using MS Word for spell-checking in languages without the necessary proofing tools installed has been resolved.
- Empty lines before or after subtitle's text will always be trimmed down when exporting a file. There were situations in which empty lines could have been exported in the output.
- Bug related to configuring Export presets for EBU STL files has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.2.10
July 5, 2022
- Improvements
- We've improved how 2K and 4K vidoes are handled and "Out of Memory" errors are less likely to pop-up. However, we still recommend to always import 2K and 4K for better and smoother playback.
- Improved the way EZTitles handles fonts with incorrect font family name set in the font file. Now the text should render correctly with such problematic fonts.
- Removed an unnecessary warning when exporting black text in Teletext Level 2 EBU STL files.
- Bugs Fixed
- Fixed an issue that caused inconsistent results when copying a column from Excel that includes empty cells and then pasting it in EZTitles.
EZTitles 6.2.9
June 23, 2022
- New Features
- New option to play videos at x3 speed with sound filters that keep the speech still understandable. Backwards payback at x3 is possible only for imported videos.
- Improvements
- Importing PAC files with incorrectly encoded or invalid characters will now display warning.
- Caption bars of all "lists" (Comments, Preview List, Draft List and Log List) in EZTitles have been increased slightly for convenience.
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug causing some interlaced videos to import and display just half the picture has been fixed.
- Serious slow-down issue when exporting 24 & 32bit BMP images has been fixed.
- Issue leading to exporting incorrect color values for images with transparency has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.8
June 17, 2022
- Bugs Fixed
- Problem causing the vertical position to be exported incorrectly in DLP XML and DCDM (SMPTE 428-7) files has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.7
June 16, 2022
- Improvements
- Horizontal position from WebVTT files using "line-left" &"line-right" attributes will be imported. Prior to that it used to be discarded.
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug causing Access Violation error when using the Second monitor preview option and adding Video Mask has been fixed.
- Bug causing Access Violation error when starting Subtitling Assistant for videos which had some of the shot changes manually deleted has now been resolved.
- Visual glitch making right aligned, left or center justified text to go outside Safe Area in Teletext & Closed Captions modes is fixed.
- Issue causing incorrectly the font to fallback to the "default" (Arial) for fonts which have different than the font-family name has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.6
June 8, 2022
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug with the 4 Color image exports (Sonic Reel DVD/Scenarist, Apple DVD Studio, Spruce DVD Maestro, Graphic STL) causing incorrect color and opacity values to be saved in the output script file has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.5
June 7, 2022
- Bugs Fixed
- Issue causing some Japanese characters to rotate incorrectly when inserted in vertical subtitles has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.2.4
June 2, 2022
- New Features
- New parameter to export project's <frame_rate> when using the Custom Text export feature is available.
- The Video Mask feature now adds the possibility to display subtitle's text while configuring video mask.
- Titles/Renumber will behave more adequately when executed for subtitles with Zero Subtitle loaded in the Secondary Track.
- Bug Fixes
- Visual glitch with display of precomposed characters, letter and an accent typically, as unprintable in PAC mode has been fixed.
- Bug causing outline or drop-shadow to render even when their size is set to "0px" in Project Settings has been resolved.
- Bug causing Access Violation errors when the Log and Draft Lists had subtitles from the main and secondary tracks has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.2.3
May 26, 2022
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that caused the background/box to appear too big in certain situations.
EZTitles 6.2.2
May 26, 2022
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with Subtitling Assistant not working if the audio analysis for EN-UK or EN-AU languages was created by a previous version of EZTitles.
- Intelligent Commands feature could be toggled ON even in a project that was not analyzed by the Subtitling Assistant which could lead to some commands not working properly. This issue is now fixed.
EZTitles 6.2.1
May 25, 2022
- New Features
- New Speech-to-Text engine by AssembyAI is used for English audio (EN-US, EN-AU, EN-GB). It'll reduce processing time, increase punctuation accuracy and provide speaker change detection.
- Text rendering based on the latest improvements in the DirectWrite technology allow us to benefit from the advanced typography features of OpenType fonts and hardware accelerated text. This will significantly improve typography and display of characters in EZTitles and various images outputs.
- Project Settings in PAC and 890 modes are redesigned to exclude the no-longer necessary compatibility options.
- Ruby Alignment parameter is supported and will be exported in TTML2, IMSC 1.1 and all image-based formats. Ruby Alignment can be modified from the Phonetic Guide and Fix Subtitles tools.
- We’ve completely changed how the character per line value is calculated for Arabic, Thai, Hindi, etc. These scripts contain composite characters (characters with tone marks, top and bottom vowels, etc.) which now count as one character for all indicators and checks in EZTitles, including reading speed and duration calculations. This change is in line with the newest specifications from major broadcasters and streaming services and advancements in text editing applications.
- Background colors will now be displayed in Open/Native and Digital Cinema modes by activating Enable background colors in Open/Native and Digital Cinema modes under Project Settings/Subtitles. Its main purpose is to preserve the background color from traditional subtitling formats like PAC, EBU STL and 890 when delivering to the more and more used Timed-Text based files.
  With the option activated the background color will be automatically exported to TTML1&TTML2, IMSC 1&IMSC 1.1, EBU-TT, SMPTE-TT Subtitles, WebVTT, PAC, 890 and EBU STL (TTX lvl1, TTX lvl2) as well as all image-based exports.
- Video playback and text drawing will now benefit from Hardware Acceleration.
- New DVB export option creating FFMPEG compatible (MPEG-TS) subtitles is available for EZTitles Ultimate.
- Improvements
- There is a new Character Code Table compatibility option added for Teletext projects that enables you easily spot unsupported by EBU STL characters right in the main editor. The Character Code Table options 1:1 represent the characters supported for each one of them according to EBU TECH 3264.
- New Fix Subtitles option is available allowing to change position of all raised subtitles to Top.
- Background color and outline can be exported in WebVTT.
- New option to Prolong last subtitle in chain is available for Split text to subtitles and Out-cue and split text..
- Option to view File History for all recent projects is now available.
- New options for easier management of Local and Global Short forms are now available. Short forms can also be exported and loaded on different computers.
- Option to add write full path to image files is available for the DaVinci Resolve compliant .fcpxml image-based export.
- Disney IMSC 1.1 export now shows warning if the bouten symbols used in the file are not the approved Filled Dot (U+2022) symbol.
- Bug Fixes
- EZTitles 6.2.1 includes large number of minor issues and bug fixes, including those reported since EZTitles 6.1.18 has been released.
EZTitles 6.1.18
March 17, 2022
- New Features
- Subtitling Assistant now supports Ukrainian.
  Transcription of audio in Ukrainian will be free of charge for the moment but we may revise this in the future.
- Bug Fixes
- Issue causing Subtitles from Audio to sometimes generate subtitles without timecodes has been fixed.
- Problem preventing EZTitles to integrate with DropBox when Business and Personal accounts are linked up on the same computer has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.1.17
February 9, 2022
- New Features
- Project Templates can now be imported and exported. For details, please check this topic.
- tts:luminanceGain can be configured when exporting TTML2 and IMSC 1.1 files.
- Improvements
- EZTitles's build version will now be displayed in the upper left corner for convenience.
- MCC files with missing the "Captions Service Descriptor" or CSD can now be imported as the parameter isn't mandatory by specifications.
- Bug Fixes
- Issue when exporting subtitles as Images for Final Cut Pro X and Davinci Resolve has been fixed. There was a problem with subtitles that had no gap between them.
- Bug preventing sharing Project Templates while integrated with the new Google Drive service has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.1.16
January 19, 2022
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue causing the Subtitling Assistant to analyze the video using the wrong language configuration when using sections.
EZTitles 6.1.15
January 13, 2022
- New Features
- New option to replace ‏ and ‏ marks with their Unicode counterparts U+200F and U+200E is available when exporting to WebVTT.
- Total number of text lines will now be displayed under the main editor when Subtitle Information is enabled.
- Improvements
- List of languages for Row doesn't end on now use the same names and abbreviations as in the list of input languages in Project Settings. Previously, there were a few entries that did not match those in Project Settings.
- Bug Fixes
- Issue causing top aligned captions to be incorrectly reported as not snapped to the safe area has been fixed.
- Video LambdaCap export has been modified for better compliance with SSG1. This includes better handling of control codes inside the LambdaCap file and better support of nested/partial italics.
- Playback issue leading to skipping video frames while playing MPEG2 video has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.1.14
December 7, 2021
- New Features
- EBU-TT import has been improved and now enables micro-positioning to be interpret and represented. Previously, only legacy positioning was supported for compliance with Teletext subtitles.
EZTitles 6.1.13
November 30, 2021
- Improvements
- XML only exports for Final Cut Pro X are now compatible with the latest "fcpxml" specifications.
- Bug Fixes
- Problem with text selection while using Voice Commands and causing only a portion of the text to be selected has been resolved.
- Issue with Auto Correct that used to sometimes wrap words from different lines to a single line has been identified and fixed.
- Bug occurring when switching between Open/Native and Open/PAC modes and causing top-aligned subtitles pushed down to the bottom line to be incorrectly indicated as "raised" is now fixed.
- Few visual glitches with EZTitles' interface have been corrected.
EZTitles 6.1.12
November 9, 2021
- Improvements
- New option to override the set in the Project Settings min. interval by holding the Ctrl button and dragging the subtitle' In-or Out-cue is available.
- New informative text label will be displayed onto the Video Import configuration window whenever the video file is corrupted and cannot be imported.
- Bug Fixes
- Problem related to the export of subtitles in Hindi for 4 Color DVD systems and causing the text not be rendered has been fixed.
- Issue causing "TC to Frames: attempt to process empty timecode" error when trying to Extract transcription with Subtitling Assistant has been resolved.
- Problem leading to incorrect import and display of text in italic when importing it from some RTF files has been fixed.
- Issue with the Custom Text Export option when exporting right-to-left languages has been solved.
EZTitles 6.1.11
October 26, 2021
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue causing the video position to move to the wrong timecode after inserting a new subtitle between other subtitles.
EZTitles 6.1.10
October 18, 2021
- Improvements
- Updating entries in Subtitles from Audio > Row doesn't end on list will now happen when clicking the "OK" button. Previously, the list used to be saved/updated only after actually starting Subtitles from Audio
- The Preview window when comparing two labeled revisions has been updated to always show the older revision on the left hand-side.
- Bug Fixes
- Bug with the Lambda Cap import causing text inside nested formatting tags to be displayed incorrectly has been solved.
- A few minor bugs related to importing/exporting RTF/DOC/DOCX files or using MS Office for spell checking when MS Word isn't the default application for opening these type of files have been identified and fixed.
- Bug causing "Access Violation" error when importing files in to Secondary Subtitles Track if the Auto Renumber option was enabled has been resolved.
- Issue causing the Zero Subtitle to remain on screen until the first subtitle comes in when playing the vidoe in Preview mode has been fixed.
- Bug related to using Split text to subtitles when there was Zero Subtitle inserted and causing the newly split subtitles to end up with incorrect numbers has been solved.
- Incorrect "Not enough time to process"ccwarning when exporting SCC or other Closed Captions dedicated files if the project contained Zero Subtitle has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.1.9
September 30, 2021
- New Features
- EZTitles is now compliant with the new Google Drive application. Google Drive is meant to replace the existing "Backup and Sync" application on 1st of October and EZTitles will no longer work with "Backup and Sync".
- Improvements
- Background color can be saved when exporting TTML, IMSC or SMPTE-TT files from Teletext mode.
- EZTitles behavior has been improved when using MS Word for spell checking or importing RTF/DOC/DOCX files but MS Word isn't the default application for opening RTF/DOC/DOCX files.
- Bug Fixes
- Bug causing the Next/Previous buttons when using the Labeled Revisions compare functionality has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.1.8
September 7, 2021
- Improvements
- Set Language improvements - Added a new option to apply language for spell checking only on Font 1 or 2.
- Spell checker stability improvements - We've improved the integration between EZTitles and MS Word spell checker.
- New Recut/Offset options - Added a new option to move only out-cues that are not chained to the next in-cue.
- New video synchronization indicator - Added a new indicator in the main video window when the synchronization between the video and subtitles is turned off.
- Bug Fixes
- When exporting colored subtitles in WebVTT format the green color will now be properly exported as lime.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Timeout errors when using the Subtitling Assistant.
- Fixed a specific issue that could cause dashes at the end and start of line to move position when using Subtitling Assistant > Generate timecode for subtitles feature.
EZTitles 6.1.7
August 11, 2021
- Improvements
- Production Scripts Import- Timings that have the HH, MM, SS and FF values separated by space are now supported.
- Custom Text Export- new <bold> and <italic> tags are included for use in the File Header & Footer, Subtitle Header & Footer, Row & Subtitle Delimiter sections to increase the readability of none-text lines in the output file. Please refer to the dedicated Help topic for more details.
- The max. allowed values for the Threshold and Gap intervals is increased to 99 frames.
- Bug Fixes
- Problem with the Play/Pause command not working until playing the video forwards / backwards has been resolved.
- Issue causing the playback speed when using the Preview Subtitle Scenes Only option to reset after performing certain actions has been fixed.
- Bug causing "Access Violation" error when trying to change justification of subtitles with not text is now fixed.
EZTitles 6.1.6
August 9, 2021
- New Features
- New option to import CCSL, CDSL, Dialogue Lists and other tabular formats without effort. The Production Script import option is available with the EZTitles Standard and Ultimate license editions. For more details, please refer to the dedicated Help topic.
- Subtitling Assistant has been significantly improved and now expands the scope of operations it can perform by introducing two new options:
  - Extract transcription for subtitles- fills in the existing subtitles with the text from the acquired audio transcription.
  - Generate timecode for subtitles- automatically generates timecode for the existing subtitles without changing their text.
  For more details about the new options, please refer to the dedicate Help topic.
  There are two other changes as well:
  - Added is a new option to Keep original subtitles as text breaks when using the Align loaded text to audio operation. It's meant to preserve the logical structure of the original text and will ensure that no text from two different text blocks from the original script have been merged in one subtitle by the Assistant.
  - Subtitling Assistant can now be used for videos in Hebrew. The list with all supported languages can be found here.
- New option to select Programme Start Timecode from the Setup Timecode menu.
  Adding the new parameter lead to two more changes:
  - The selected Programme Start Timecode will be saved as part of project's Details.
  - The new parameter is visible when using the EZTitles Properties to quickly preview the statistics of a project without opening it in EZtitles.
- SoftNI (.sub) files are now supported for import and export. The new options are part of the EZTitles Standard and Ultimate license editions.
- Improvements
- The "Media Start Timecode" option available in the export configuration of some formats has been renamed to "Recut/Offset" to outline more adequately its function and use.
  In addition, options to automatically fill it in using the Programme Start Timecode or Video's Start Timecode from the input file are also available.
- The list of Netflix approved language codes has been updated to include all languages recently added to Netflix's Delivery specifications.
- Find & Replace- new wildcards options for Start and End of subtitle. For more details, please refer to the dedicated Help topic.
- The Video Crop function now offers 1:1 crop preset.
- The Color Styles will be available for Check Subtitles and Find as long as the selected foreground color differs from the colors in the standard pallet.
- The WebVTT import function is updated and now allows system symbols, such as "&","<" or ">" to be imported. Previously they had to be represented by their respective character reference codes or they wouldn't be read.
- Auto center-left aligned subtitles can now be identified by Check Subtitles or Find using the option to look for "Not centered" subtitles.
- Bug Fixes
- Issue that may lead to EZTitles starting with "default" settings have been resolved.
- Problem when using the Preview Subtitled Scenes option and leading to resuming playback at faster speed has been fixed.
- Bug canceling text replacement when the length of the line would exceed the specified character limit has been resolved.
- Issue with the Preferred Number of Rows option when using the maximum allowed for the project type value has been fixed.
- Bug allowing TTML and IMSC files to be exported without a language identification tag is now fixed.
EZTitles 6.1.5
June 22, 2021
- New Features
- Subtitling Assistant: the option to "Align loaded script to audio" will now preserve the alignment and positioning as loaded from the original script.
- Improvements
- Subtitling Assistant:Additional Speech Recognition Service hosts in US-East and US-West are now available to mitigate and/or reduce the down-time in case of connection problems to the default one in Europe.
- It's now possible to set justification for 1-line subtitles. This way adding new text line or splitting the line in two later on will respect the justification.
- Bug Fixes
- Subtitling Assistant: issue causing audio analysis to suddenly stop and never finishes when video's name contain "#" in the name has been resolved.
- Bug making the Minimize button/function to stop working has been fixed.
- Bug allowing TTML and IMSC files to be exported without a language identification tag is now fixed.
EZTitles 6.1.4
May 25, 2021
- Improvements
- Improved file save procedures when working on computers with overly aggressive Anti-virus tools installed.
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue preventing you from opening video files on the last day of the license when using time-limited licenses.
EZTitles 6.1.3
May 21, 2021
- Bug Fixes
- Small issue when preparing subtitles in Japanese for Disney+ has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.1.2
May 20, 2021
- Bug Fixes
- Problem causing serious slow-down when exporting DC Subtitles (DLP XML, DCDM-SMPTE 428-7) as images has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.1.1
May 19, 2021
- New Features
- We are proud to announce a new and improved Subtitling Assistant. Thanks to changing the underlying speech recognition engine we’ve achieved dramatic improvement in recognizing non-English speech. More about it you can find at the dedicated to Subtitling Assistant page or in our What's New.
- EZTitles is now fully compatible with Dragon Speech Recognition software. You could now benefit from Dragon's full text control features and easily control EZTitles by voice.
- We’ve not only redesigned and improved our find and replace but also added some useful new capabilities.
  - Search scope – you can now switch between searching in subtitles and searching in their comments and between either both or only the active subtitle track.
  - Search only for normal text.
  - Search only in the active subtitle track.
  - Search only for text with certain attributes.
  - A new feature allows you to change the text style and color of the replaced text.
- EZTitles 6.1 comes with big changes and improvements when working with Reference files:
  - The Reference file is now always synced with the subtitles in the main track so you could work smoothly even if timing corrections are needed and Split, Merge, Delete, etc. commands are used.
  - Reference Tips balloons can be focused with the mouse. Text can be selected and copied from them afterwards.
  - New Go to Reference Tip command that automatically focuses on the corresponding Reference Tip.
  - New Copy from reference subtitle that copies text, its style, position and formatting from the corresponding reference subtitle and automatically pastes it in the edit file.
- There are several improvements aimed to make the process of working and writing Macros easier:
  - It's now possible to include external javascript (.js) files via the #include statement.
  - Ctrl + F allows you to search the code of the macro.
  - Selecting part of the code will now highlight all occurrences of the same code in the Macro.
  - There will be notification after hitting Escape or pressing the Cancel button when the macro has been modified but the changes not saved.
  - Ctrl + Left/Right Arrow can be used in the Macro editor to jump to the beginning or end of the phrase in the code.
  - Ctrl + Backspace deletes the selected phrase in the code until the preceeding it space.
- There is a new Compare With option that allows you to directly compare any supported by EZTitles file to the current project. It is called and can be accessed directly from the File menu.
- There is new Video Crop option available in the Video drop-down menu. It allows you to crop the black bars of the loaded video if it doesn't match the Aspect Ratio of your project to avoid looking at unusually stretched or squashed image.
- There are two new options for the Preview Subtitles Scenes only feature that allow you to either completely skip the parts of the video with no subtitles in them or increase the playback speed while fast forwarding through them.
- Improvements
- There are two new commands, In and Out cue + 1 frame and In and Out cue -1 frame, allowing the user to offset the current subtitle 1 frame forwards or backwards.
- There is a new Fit text to one line command intended to merge the text from two or more lines to a single line if the project's settings allow it.
- First Subtitle and Last Subtitle commands will jump to the first/last subtitle in the currently selected list: Preview List, Log List or Draft List.
- The min. value for the Threshold interval can be decreased to 1 frame.
- tts:textAlign="start" will be used to indicate top justified, vertically oriented subtitles (Japanese) when exporting TTML: Netflix-TT, TTML1, TTML2, and IMSC: IMSC 1, IMSC 1.1, Disney IMSC 1.1, files.
- Handling of control codes and style tags has been improved to avoid the accidental insertion of double-spaces when working in Closed Captions (CEA-608), Teletext, PAC or 890 modes.
- The max. value that can be entered as max. characters per row has been increased to 100.
- The Draft List will now show the number of subtitles in it.
- Regular expressions can be used for adding entries in the Negative Dictionary to exclude words sharing the same root.
- Replacement words in italics can be defined with Short Forms and Auto Correct.
- Zero Subtitle Templates can be now copied and duplicated.
- There is a new option for the MS Excel export to subtitles' text in a single cell but without the line breaks.
- Parenthesis, Square Brackets and Curly Brackets will no longer be exported "mirrored" after using the "RTL Reorder" option when exporting SubRip (.srt), MicroDVD (.sub) and SubStationAlpha (.ssa/.ass) files.
- Fix Subtitles: Fix Empty Out-cues - if the out-cue of the last subtitle was empty it will now be calculated based on the Reading Speed and Min. Duration set in the project as long as the last subtitle has a valid In-cue. In addition, Fix Subtitles will indicate which subtitles still have empty out-cues if their out-cues cannot be automatically calculated.
- The list of supported by Netflix characters has been updated to accommodate the most recent changes of Netflix Accepted Glyph List .
- It is now possible to select Disney from the Character Set providers list in the Project Settings menu. It will indicate as unprintable character any symbol that is currently not supported by Disney+ delivery guidelines.
- New option under the Preferences menu enables you to choose the display device, if you have two or more displays connected to the computer, that will show the full-screen preview from EZTitles.
- New option allows you to easily load wallet for use with the Subtitling Assistant.
- Bug Fixes
- "Access Violation" error happening when using the Split command and related to the Intelligent Mode of the Split command has been resolved.
- "Access Violation" error when exporting project containing Hidden subtitles to Custom Text Format has been fixed.
- "Access Violation" error when importing Cheetah CAP files containing incorrect Start Row and Column values has been fixed.
- Bug preventing the user of using any shortcuts in EZTitles after switching to another application with "ALT + TAB" has been resolved.
- Issue related to the Media Start TC value when exporting IMSC1/IMSC 1.1 files has been fixed.
- Bug related to performing single wild-card search from Find&Replace to Log All occurrences found and causing EZTitles to become not responsive has been resolved.
- Bug related to replacing text with Macros which hinders the highlighting of incorrect words has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.0.13
March 9, 2021
- Improvements
- 3 full stops will automatically be converted to ellipsis character U+2026 when exporting Netflix-TT files. This is required by the most recent changes in the Netflix Timed Text Style Guide.
- The Macros functionality has been expanded and it is now possible to display and use simple input forms. For more details, please check the InputBox and InputBoxEx functions in the supplied with the installation EZTitlesMacrosObjectModel.pdf document.
- Bug Fixes
- Issue related to the import of PAC files and causing spaces on certain positions to be discarded and not displayed has been fixed.
- Bug causing the Default Row option, defined at Edit->Preferences->Editing, to sometimes change was identified and resolved.
- Problem related to the incomplete and incorrect display of some diacritic marks and accents in Syriac scripts has been resolved.
- Issue causing the thumbnails track in the Timeline to keeps resetting to its default size has been fixed.
- Several issues leading to incorrect behavior of the Draft and Log lists when removing or deleting subtitles from them have been fixed.
EZTitles 6.0.12
January 29, 2021
- Improvements
- Alignment attribute for vertical subtitles justified to the top side will be exported as tts:textAlign="start" when exporting TTML-based files (TTML2, IMSC 1.1, Netflix-TT, Disney+ IMSC1.1) in accordance with the latest recommendations and delivery specs.
- Bug Fixes
- Issue causing the EZTitles Cloud Integration service to sometimes stop working and incorrectly report that the Cloud Services were not available has been fixed.
- Problem causing the Subtitles from Audio function to stop working or slow-down significantly if the video used to contain very little number of shot changes has been resolved.
- Bug causing "List index out of bounds" error when using Subtitling Assistant->Start/Resume Audio Analysis has been found and fixed.
- Visual glitch with the Find & Replace form when viewed on displays with high scaling and DPI settings has been resolved.
- Bug related to changing the extension of the exported file when there was a full stop in file's name has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.0.11
January 5, 2021
- New Features
- Macros object model has been updated and now you can find a couple of new properties of the Subtitle object: RowCount, ChainedWithNext and ChainedWithPrevious, as well as a new method IndexOfSubtitle which can be used to check if a subtitle has already been added to Log or Draft lists. For more details, please refer to the EZTitlesMacrosObjectModel.pdf document inside EZTitles' installation folder.
- Improvements
- There's a new option allowing to change the default extension of the output file when exporting Timed-Text based formats, including Netflix-TT. For this, simply select the new extension from the Save as Type drop-down menu when choosing where to save the file.
- Cloud Services integration has been updated and will no longer work while Internet Explorer is selected as the default browser due to the most recent changes implemented by DropBox and Google Drive. Internet Explorer is no longer supported by their respective APIs.
- Roll-up captions with out-cues that are in the gap of 0 frames to Blank between pop-ons interval from the next caption will no longer trigger a warning when performing Checks. These captions are considered as chained and their out-cues will automatically be removed during export.
- Bug Fixes
- Issue with imported videos causing audio issues when playing the imported video at slow speed, x0.1, x0.5 and so on, has been resolved.
- Problem related to modifying the in-cue of chained captions (captions without out-cue in Closed Captions mode) has been fixed. Their durations didn't use to update correctly in the Preview list.
- Issue causing the Timeline to not scale properly on monitors with high DPI and zoom levels has been resolved.
- Bug causing the magnifying glass icon in the bottom left to not always work as expected is now fixed.
- The progress bar displayed after using the Out-cue and split text command will no longer show.
- Several issues with the Subtitling Assistant have been resolved as well:
  - Audio Analysis configuration sometimes not saved correctly after analyzing a video file. The problem used to be resolved by opening and closing the Subtitling Assistant->Start Audio Analysis once.
  - Issue causing the Row doesn't end on option to work incorrectly when the language of the project was not English-US has been fixed.
  - Bug causing Access Violation and List Index out of Bounds errors when starting Subtitling Assistant after the last subtitle in the Preview list has been fixed.
  - Align loaded script to audio used to add extra spaces after control codes such as italics, colors, etc in Teletext/Closed Captions modes.
  - Subtitling Assistant will now handle dash/hyphen characters indicating speaker change with greater priority. Text after speaker change will always start in new subtitle or on new line depending on the particular configuration.
EZTitles 6.0.10
November 17, 2020
- New Features
- The "Find & Replace" functions have been enhanced and now support wildcards, special characters that substitute one or more characters, and even regular expressions. Please check the dedicated topic for more details.
- Improvements
- The Netflix mode option available for Fix Subtitles has been modified to comply with the latest changes to paragraph 3. Dialogue that crosses shot changes in Netflix Subtitle Timing Guidelines.
  In-cues inserted 9, 10 or 11 frames before a shot change will moved to 12 frames before the same shot change.
- Warning will be displayed when exporting Netflix-TT file in Japanese if the inappropriate type of quotation marks are used in the file. According to the latest Netflix's style guide update half-width double quotes U+201C & U+201D should be used instead of full-width double prime quotation marks U+301D & U+301F.
- Our work to improve the behavior and display of EZTitles' GUI when using multiple monitors continues. In addition to fixing several known issues, we've also made sure that any dialog or window will open on the same monitor as the main editor.
- Applying Video Mask will no longer hide the additional subtitle information displayed below it.
- PNG image generation has been improved for Blu-ray BDN when working with two subtitle tracks. Now overlapping images will share the same color pallet to avoid exceeding the 255 color limit at any given time.
- The EBU for Arte export has been changed to allow 37 characters (no colors) or 36 characters in different color to be exported.
- The "Word to Next" and "Word to Previous" subtitle commands will behave more consistently when moving the last word from a subtitle. Previously, the vertical alignment was not preserved in all cases.
- Bugs Fixed
- Issue with importing text from RTF files causing each character to be imported on a separate text line is fixed.
- Bug leading to "Not enough memory" error when opening or importing files in Secondary Subtitles Track on computers with 4k monitors has been resolved.
- Bug causing "List index out bounds" error when opening the "Row doesn't end on" list in Subtitles from Audio, Split text to subtitles and Word Wrap has been fixed.
- Problem when exporting subtitles for Final Cut Pro X from a project with custom resolution has been identified and fixed.
- Issue with the export of SRT files when the last subtitle was empty has been fixed.
- Bug causing the Auto-recovery file to be sometimes discarded after receiving Access Violation errors have been resolved.
EZTitles 6.0.9
October 28, 2020
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug causing the program to crash with multiple "Access Violation" errors after "cutting" marked subtitle from the preview list has been fixed.
- Issue with the "Snap to shot changes" Fix Subtitles option creating incorrectly snapped subtitles has been resolved.
- Problem using the Split Subtitles command around a shot-change when there were subtitles preceding the video's start point has been fixed.
EZTitles 6.0.8
September 29, 2020
- Bugs Fixed
- Bug causing "List index out of bounds" errors when trying to import Plain ASCII .txt files has been resolved.
EZTitles 6.0.7
September 28, 2020
- New Features
- EZTitles now supports the built in Windows 8,Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 spell checking API. Respectively, new "Windows built-in" is available on computers running Windows 8 and later.
- Improvements
- Subtitling Assistant - videos with English audio will always be analyzed with the language set to English (United States). This is required because Google's speech recognition engine provides improved speech-to-text features only for English (United States) while it's lacking for all other English localizations.
- Subtitling Assistant - formatting style (italics, colors) will be preserved when the Assistant is configured to Align script to audio. Previously, all styles and positions used to be discarded.
- The "Convert Arabic to full-width digits in vertical subtitles" option available for Fix Subtitles is renamed to "Convert between Full- and Half-width digits".
  The options has been also modified to follow Netflix's guidelines for writing numbers in Japanese subtitles. Please check Japanese Text Style Guide, paragraph I.16. Numbers or the built in EZTitles help for details.
- Netflix Timed Text (Neflix-TT) files will be exported with the .xml extension by default. The extension can still be changed to .ttml/.dfxp during the export if needed.
- Bug Fixes
- Subtitling Assistant - bug causing "Cannot open " " file..." error when trying to start the Assistant has been fixed.
- Issue with the "Split Text to subtitles" feature resulting in incorrectly split text if there were quotation marks in the text and a video file loaded in has been resolved.
- Problem related to changing between Digital Cinema and Teletext modes and causing incorrect horizontal positions to be assigned to subtitles containing empty lines has been fixed.
- Bug when using the "Send Marked to Draft List" command and causing slow-down has been resolved.
- Issue causing "List index out of bounds" errors when opening .ezt/.eztxml projects containing invalid Zero Subtitle has been fixed.
- Bug related to the "Paste subtitles" command and causing the comment inserted for the next subtitle to be multiplied has been fixed.
- Problem with settings migration (from ver.5 to ver.6) when EZTitles was integrated with DropBox has been resolved.
- Several problems related to the Spell Checking functions were found and fixed.
- Issue related to using Video Import and causing the last 10 frames to be cut off has been fixed.
- Problem with the playback of MJPEG encoded videos in the YUV color space has also been resolved.
EZTitles 6.0.6
September 8, 2020
- New Features
- EZTitles now supports the latest version of FFMPEG to increase the video playback capabilities and solve a number of already known playback related issues.
- Subtitling Assistant now provides an option to analyze the video in segments. Each of the segments defined can also be analyzed in different language suitable for materials with more than one spoken language.
- The "Subtitles from Audio", "Split text to subtitles", "Word Wrap" and "Out-cue and split text" functions have been reworked completely.
  As part of the update, rules priorities are now back and the user can choose their individual weight to the algorithm. The above-mentioned functions each have integrated Preview to facilitate the configuration and use.
- In compliance with the latest updates to the Timing Rules implemented by Netflix, Fix Subtitles offers new "Netflix mode" option aimed at the automatic resolution of shot change related issues. The option doesn't require any further configuration and will automatically follow the Timing Rules as mentioned in the above article.
- All Global Commands can now be executed for the subtitles in the main and secondary subtitle tracks simultaneously by activating the dedicated "Include both subtitle tracks" option.
  This change applies to the options accessible from the Titles drop-down menu:
  - Format
  - Delete
  - Recut (Offset)
  - Hide/Unhide
  - Change Case
  - Replace Color
  - Raise Subtitles
  - Shift subtitles text
  - Split text to subtitles
  - Word Wrap
  - Reset Subtitles
  - Check Subtitles and Fix Subtitles
  In addition, similar option is also available when exporting the project after clicking on "Export range of subtitles".
- Improvements
- The EBU STL export function now offers more detailed information what might be causing the "row is truncated" warning if there were longer lines.
- Excel XLS export now offers option to export subtitle numbers.
- Hermes ID removed from the Netflix Timed Text export as it is no longer used by Netflix
- The threshold interval when using "Fix Subtitles" to automatically correct "Shot Changes" issues can now be configured to 1 frame. Previously, the minimum possible value was 2 frames.
- Bug Fixes
- Bug causing subtitles in right-to-left languages to sometimes be indicated as "outside safe area" has been fixed.
- Bug related to the Subtitling Assistant and resulting in "Subtitling Assistant didn't process the video completely last time" error has been fixed.
- Issue with the "Split text to subtitles" and the Intelligent commands if there was a subtitle inserted before the first video frame has been fixed.
- Bug causing "List index out of bounds" error when exporting Disney+ IMSC 1.1. compliant files has been fixed.
- Issue with the Fix Subtitles option to "Snap to left/right/center safe area" has been fixed.
- Macros: new features
- Macros can be organized and sorted in groups.
- Macros can be executed directly from the Edit Macro window by pressing the corresponding "Run" button.
- New function SetColorStyle() to change the background and foreground colors is available.
- New HasText property of the Subtitle object is available that can be used to determine if the subtitle has text in it or not.
- New DefaultDoubleHeight property of the ProjectSettings object is available.
- Text and background colors can be set by the respective functions by using their respective names i.e. "yellow", "green", etc.
- New ReplaceAllSilent() function is available. It works similarly to the regular ReplaceAll() but doesn't display any warning or confirmation messages - all replacements would be executed silently.
- The ShowLogList() function will automatically prevent duplicate subtitles from showing in the LogList.
EZTitles 6.0.5
June 16, 2020
- Bug Fixes
- Fix an issue when migrating cues settings from EZTitles 5 Preferences to EZTitles 6 Project Templates.
EZTitles 6.0.4
June 4, 2020
- New Features
- The intelligent behavior of Split Subtitles, Word to subtitle and Word to previous subtitle can be toggled on/off when working with videos analyzed by the Subtitling Assistant. The new option is available by pressing the new "Toggle intelligent commands" option from the toolbars, from the Subtitling Assistant drop-down menu or by assigning shortcut to it.
- New commands for navigation in the Log List - We've added two new commands for moving to the Previous/Next subtitle in the Log List.
- New commands for moving through the Checks - We've added two new commands that will move to the Previous/Next Check result when the Checks form is opened.
- Improvements
- Improved results when using Split Text to Subtitles command.
- New Fix that automatically replace Horizontal Bar(U+2015) to Two-Em Dash (U+2E3A) in compliance with latest Netflix Specifications.
- New Fix that automatically replace smart quotes to Double Prime Quotation Marks in compliance with latest Netflix Specifications.
- Improved the visibility of Command Icons in the Command Insight pop-up window.
- Bug Fixes
- Fix Subtitle presets always reported as "Modified" when migrating settings from EZTitles 5 is now fixed.
- Fixed unwanted Checks executed when invoking Check Subtitles from a Macro.
- Fixed an issue that could result in missing spaces when saving your project in EZTXML file format.
- Fixed an issue that could cause EZTitles to crash when Safe Area margins are set to 0px and the subtitle's box goes outside the screen.
EZTitles 6.0.3
May 21, 2020
- Improvements
- EZTitles 6 now allows restoring of user backups created by EZTitles5 for easier and more convenient migration.
- The list of supported by the Subtitling Assistant languages has expanded with the following additions: Hebrew (Israel), Albanian (Albania), Estonian (Estonia), Macedonia (North Macedonia) and Uzbek (Uzbekistan).
  The full list of supported languages can be viewed here.
EZTitles 6.0.2
May 20, 2020
- Bugs Fixed
- Fixed a drawing issue when working in Silver of Graphite themes.
EZTitles 6.0.1
May 19, 2020
- New Features
- Subtitling Assistant - the next gen smart feature intended to automate the process of creating Closed Captions both Pop-on and Roll-up, SDH Subtitles or Master Translation Templates. Subtitling Assistant can be used in two ways:
- Smart Commands - Uses the audio analysis data collected by the Subtitling Assistant to automatically align In- or Out-cues with the audio when certain split or move text commands are executed.
- Macros - now you could record or code-in from scratch little programs which can automate frequently repeated operations, or which can group series of commands and actions and invoke them by a single button press.
- Backup and Recovery - comprehensive project backup and recovery system to ensure fail-safe environment for your projects:
- Commands Insight Toolbar - allows you to search and quickly access all commands in the program.
- Disney IMSC 1.1 - Disney IMSC 1.1 import/export options fully complies with Disney's IMSC Subtitle Specifications, including Disney's Japanese Subtitles - IMSC 1.1 specification.
- Netflix Japanese IMSC 1.1 - Import/export compatible with Netflix Japanese IMSC 1.1 Creation Guide.

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