Video tutorials to help you get the most out of Spot
Below you'll find links to a series of videos we're putting together on our
YouTube channel. The videos range from very basic tutorials to more advanced lessons. We'll be adding more over the coming weeks and
months, so please let us know if there's a topic you'd like to see covered.
Basic
Getting started (part zero): Installing Spot
How to install Spot and get it up and running.
Getting started (part one): The main window and subtitle edit area
The main window, basic navigation and the subtitle edit area explained.
Getting started (part two): Formatting subtitles
How to format subtitles in Spot with a quick look at Quick View
Getting started (part three): Working with videos
How to open videos, control playback and set various video-related options.
Getting started (part four): Timing subtitles
How to time subtitles in Spot with focus on Ctrl+Enter.
Getting started (part five): Checking subtitles
How to QC your subtitles and link groups of settings to different clients.
The first of two videos that look at how to copy and paste subtitles from an external file into the current one. In this tutorial, we investigate the Copy window.
The second (and thankfully last) of two videos that look at how to copy and paste subtitles from an external file into the current one. In today's episode: the Quick View method!
An introduction to creating auto-timed subtitles based on Spot's speech enhance engine. Please note that this is a deprecated (and not very useful!) function. We recommend you give Spot SubScribe a try instead.
Spot's speech enhance technology can make it easier to find the start and end of speech in videos with a lot of background noise. Please note that this is a deprecated (and not very useful!) function. We recommend you give Spot SubScribe a try instead.