A browser-first workflow for multilingual video subtitles

Short summary

A practical guide to building a browser-first multilingual subtitle workflow that treats transcription as structured data with timestamps, editable segments, and consistent terminology. The author built Video Translator to transcribe, translate timed segments, review text, and export original, translated, or bilingual SRT files or render captions into MP4. Key design principle: keep subtitle text editable until final export so captions remain readable, reusable, and reviewable.

• •Treat subtitle segments as structured data with start/end times and editable text
• •Split long translations at natural pauses to fit reading time constraints
• •Export original, translated, or bilingual SRT files; optionally render captions into MP4

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