My automation scripts for Aegisub. In my opinion, the coolest thing here is AegisubChain, but I also have some other useful scripts for editing and timing.
- Aegisub-Scripts
Most scripts I make use DependencyControl for versioning and dependency management, and can be installed from within Aegisub using DependencyControl's Install Script function. Some of them strictly require it to be installed.
I wrote a guide or primer on karaoke templates that aims to get people far enough to start reading documentation without too much pain. It also contains a few tables for converting templates between the three major templaters.
I also wrote up the mathematics involved in the various perspective scripts here.
My biggest project. From a technical standpoint, AegisubChain is comparable to a virtual machine that can run (multiple) other automation scripts, while hooking into their API calls. In particular, it can intercept dialogs and prefill them with certain values, or suppress them entirely by immediately returning whatever results it wants.
From an end-user standpoint, AegisubChain allows you to record and play back "pipelines" of macros (called chains), and only showing one dialog collecting all required values on playback. It can also create wrappers around macros that skip some dialogs or prefill some values, or turn virtually any macro action into a non-GUI macro.
Consider the following example, which records a 4-step process to make text incrementally fade from top to bottom, and later plays it back using just one script and one dialog:
chain_demo.mp4
Here's a second, simpler example which adds colors to text and runs "Blur & Glow".
chain_demo2.mp4
Other, simpler uses include turning simple actions like "Open a script; Click a button" into a non-GUI macro. For example, it could allow one to have (instant) key bindings for NecrosCopy's Copy Text or Copy Tags.
Detailed documentation is here.
A script that generates moving focus lines, tweakable with a few parameters.
WARNING: This script is dumb and horribly inefficient. I made it when I didn't know what I was doing. You can still use it, but make sure to clip the generated shapes to the frame area (plus some padding to account for the blur) and apply a Shape Clipper. Also be careful not to use too many layers.
focuslines.mp4
Yet another line2fbf script. Meaning, this script turns lines into frame-by-frame chunks without changing the rendering output, replacing all transform (and fade and move) tags by constant tags in the process. This script should be more accurate than the other line2fbf scripts floating around.
An analogue to Aegisub-Motion that can handle perspective motion. Unlike the "After Effects Transform Data" that Aegisub-Motion needs, this tool requires an "After Effects Power Pin" track, which you can export directly from Mocha, or using Akatsumekusa's plugin for Blender.
More or less an analogue to The0x539's DeriveTrack for perspective tracks. It turns the outer quads of a set of lines (as set using the perspective tool in my Aegisub fork) into a PowerPin track that can be used with Aegisub Perspective-Motion. Alternatively, it can derive a track directly from the override tags. This way, manual perspective tracks can be made and applied to multiple different lines directly in Aegisub, without having to go through Mocha or Blender.
Run this script after Aegisub's "Resample Resolution" to fix perspective rotations in the selected lines that were broken by resampling. If you're resampling to a different aspect ratio, select "Stretch" in Aegisub's resampler.
There exist multiple scripts like this already, but this script uses a different approach to ensure exact accuracy. However, it still has a few limitations:
- It still requires all individual events to have one consistent perspective and will not work if perspective tags change mid-line. In these cases you'll need to split the lines manually first.
- It does not take position shifts due to large
\shadvalues into account. If these become significant, you need to split the text from the shadow, adjust the positions, and resample them separately. - Shapes might need to be
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I have a library arch.Perspective.moon that allows applying perspective transformations to subtitle lines. It abstracts away almost all of the tag wrangling and allows you to just work in terms of the quads you want to transform things from or to. All my perspective-related scripts use this library.
Ordinary single-line perspective handling has been added directly to my Aegisub fork. One day I might still write a script to cover some more advanced usage (e.g. a "perspective Recalculator"), but this is very low priority.
For the math involved in these functions, see either the comments in the source code this write-up.
These scripts try to provide shortcuts for actions in editing or in applying QC notes. They're tailored to the processes and conventions in the group I'm working in, but maybe they'll also be useful for other people.
This script is for whenever you're editing subtitles but want to also preserve the original line in the same subtitle line. It wraps the previous line in braces, but also escapes any styling tags it contains. Conversely, it can revert to any of the deactivated lines with one hotkey.
rwtools_demo.mp4
The script contains more detailed documentation.
Takes a list of subtitle QC notes (or really any collection of timestamped notes), each starting with a timestamp, and provides shortcuts for jumping to lines with notes, as well as a way to mark lines containing notes. If configured to, it will also show the notes themselves in Aegisub.
notes_demo.mp4
Documentation is included in the script. Note, however, that this script is intended to be used more as a companion for working with the note file, instead of to replace it. Any text not matching the format of a timestamped note is skipped, so users should always double-check with the original note document.
If the subtitle file is part of a git repository, this script can parse the git diff relative to some other commit (or any ref, really) and highlight the lines which were marked as changed. This can be useful when reviewing edits made by another member, or when proofreading one's edits before pushing.
These scripts aren't in DependencyControl, since I can imagine that they'll mostly be useful to me.
A couple of shortcuts I use for more efficient timing, especially when timing to video. None of this is groundbreaking, but most of these were things I didn't find elsewhere, at least in this exact form.
- Snapping start or end to video while keeping lines joined.
- A version of The0x539's JoinPrevious that uses the current audio selection instead of the line's commited time. That is, it works without needing to commit the change if autocommit is disabled.
- A version of Aegisub's "Shift selection so that the active line starts at the video frame" that shifts by frames instead of by milliseconds.
- A version of the above macro that shifts all lines whose starting time is larger than or equal to the current line together with the selection. This is useful when retiming subtitles after scenes have been cut out of or added to the video.
For reference, I usually time without TPP and without autocommit, but with "Go to next line on commit" on. I use this script together with PhosCity's Bidirectional Snapping
Chooses the centisecond timings for subtitle lines in their frames in a way that prevents or minimizes frame timing errors (whenever possible) when shifting subtitles by time (e.g. when syncing files with SubKt). The script file has a very detailed explanation.
This script converts the line folds added in my Aegisub fork from the old storage format that used the Project Properties to the new extradata-based format. To use it, either
- copy the "Line Folds:" line in your
.assfile, open this file in Aegisub, and paste this into the dialog of the "Convert Folds" script, or - click the "From File" button to automatically read this line from the subtitle file. This only works if the file is saved on your disk. This will work on any version of Aegisub (i.e. an Aegisub version using extradata folds will be able to load folds from the resulting file), but in order for the folds to be displayed inside of Aegisub, you obviously need a build that supports extradata folds.
You might be looking for my patched version of the After Effects Blender export script that adds the ability to export Power Pin data. This script has been superseded by Akatsumekusa's version, which is an almost complete rewrite with more features and a more user-friendly GUI. Go here to download this version.
Or "Other Stuff I Worked on that Might be Interesting".
- ass.nvim: A neovim 5.0 plugin for
.asssubtitles. Its most important feature is a split window editing mode to efficiently copy new dialog (say, a translation) to a timed subtitle file. - My Aegisub fork with some new features like folding and other audio/video sources.
Thanks to PhosCity for testing many of my early scripts.
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