There's something wrong with me: which subtitle offset direction to use?
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There must be definitely something wrong with me. My brain, ears and eyes are incapable of figuring this out. It has been driving me bonkers for years (same problems with vlc in the past).
Which direction does the "subtitle offset" work?
Let's imagine we have the following situation;
subtitle (0.10) ---> sound (0.58)
IOW the subtitle shows .48 seconds too soon.
How do i adjust the subtitle: using +50ms or -50ms?
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I sure hope somebody that knows answers this because neither way seems to work for me which can’t be right
lol, I've also experienced this phenomenon before.
I'm also troubled by this
If the subtitle is appearing too early = +ms
Subtitle too late = -ms
If that's correct, then it explains why I have the same issue as the OP. If it's too early, I want to retard it, i.e., make it negative.
The way you describe it is how I would resync subtitles by modifying the SRT, i.e., current time code is 123.456, and it's too early, so I will add 0.789 to the time code so it's not as early.
I think my way of thinking in the first paragraph is more intuitive for casual use, such as sitting on the couch. Advance and retard, not literally change the existing timecode of which we have no knowledge.
There has to be a better way to sync subtitles, some subtitles are 20s off. Maybe they could add a feature to type in part of what is being said and the subtitles offset gets set automatically based off that
1 second is 1000 ms so if it is 0,5 seconds to early you should ofset it +500ms. Not 50.
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Doesn't help that different apps conceptualize this differently. If I'm remembering right, adding plus-time in VLC is like adding minus-time in Plex and vice-versa. And using micro-seconds is ridiculous when the difference is approaching minutes, not split-seconds. I use methods other than searching-within-plex for subs most of the time -- drag'n'drop opensubtitles.com gets more obscure successes, and lets you edit the SRT files easily (unlike plex) to get rid of text ads , but only lets you DL 20 subs a day including well-that-didn't-match failed attempts.
Try this tool: https://subsync.online/