«

[Playbahnosh]

Hello!

I'm looking for someone with knowledge of a programming or scripting language (doesn't matter which one) for a small-time text editing job.

My problem is: I was making subtitles for a movie with a sub-making program, when something odd happened. Somehow the timing and the texts got messed up, desynchronized. I need someone to help me synch it back again.

For those, who are not familiar with the format of .srt files, here is a sample:

967
01:18:20,597 --> 01:18:23,854
Well, as history has shown,
nothing was further from the truth.

It consist of a number, two timecodes and some text. Basicly, just a bunch of these sections follow each other in the file. The number is the index of the current subtitle line. The two timecodes mark the beginning and end of the line's display time, basicly that line will be displayed in the duration between the two timecodes.

My actual problem is: the editor somehow messed up the relation between the text and the timings, essentially shifting the texts forward to the next timecode. So, timings and durations remained the same, but it displays the wrong texts, it always displays the previous line.
There is no feature in my sub-editor (or in any sub-editor, that I know of) to shift the texts back in place. So I either do it by hand, one line at a time, or I don't. And doing click-->crtl+X-->click-->crtl+V will drive me crazy, if I have to do all the 1463 lines by hand, one-by-one.

This is what I need help with. A small script or whatever, that copies the TEXT from the next timecode, and pastes it back into it's place, then does this for all the remaining lines, so the subtitle comes back into synch with the timecodes, like this:



For somebody, who is moderately proficient in some scripting or programming language, this shouldn't be too hard, I guess. Please help me!