Submerge - 1.8.3

Through v. 7.1, Submerge was stable and effective, offering an easy-to-use subtitling application that could be adapted to anything from iPods to TVs. What's more, the price is right at $9.

The latest version, 1.8.1, has a few problems. The subtitles may appear in the very center of the screen, not the bottom like before. Processing clips isn't as smooth as past versions. Just as troubling, but for a different reason, customer service is never responded, or even acknowledged inquiries. Using their online support form was useless.

I use this software for multiple tasks, like watching series with subtitles not sync, and obviously to export to my iPod movies with subs burned on it.
Keep up the good work!

As good as it can be the support is s****t,
Still need some work, it shuts off for no reason with you try to save the file

This program is very simple and *very* fast. It did exactly what I needed, which was adding subtitles to a Quicktime movie, and did it in about 60 seconds --- which compares very favorably with the huge amounts of time various other programs seem to require for the same task.

I did run into a problem, which turned out to be the result of an improperly formatted .srt file at my end. It would have been nice if the program dealt with the problem more gracefully than just stalling and crashing on me! HOWEVER, when I contacted the developer, I received a response almost immediately, and after I sent him my subtitles file (at his request), he spotted the error right away, and I was in business. So I, for one, am very impressed with the support for this product.

I literally had my credit card out to fork over the $9 until I ran across the mention on the author's support page that they used an activation system with their registration code. That was a dealbreaker for me. I'll buy software that has to phone home only when a) there's no competition whatsoever (like Adobe) b) the company is gigantic enough to likely be around in 20 years (like Adobe) and c) I don't mind having no warm feelings toward the company that by this system is treating me like a criminal (like...you know). I don't like anything that puts itself between the serial number I paid for, and my full use of the software. It just feels creepy.

The app itself I like quite a bit. It could use a few tweaks (like support for per-title italic tags rather than just a global italics setting for the entire movie, a bit more customizability for title placement on the image, and a WYSIWYG font selection system) but for $9 it's a steal.

If supporting the spread of software activation doesn't bother you, then I'd recommend Submerge since the software itself seems to be very well executed.

Sorry for the rant.