About
SuperTitles is the perfect tool for subtitling a live performance, such a theater or a concert. An easty to use supertitling / surtitling program.
I needed a flexible program that could display subtitles during a theater performance for Chalmersspexet but none of the programs i found worked well, so I made "SuperTitles". It's a simple java app which allows you to:
- Easily reposition and rotate the projected text to fit a non permanent projector screen.
- Lock the projected text to prevent accidentally moving things around
- Change the font face and style
- Save and load configs to/from file
- See a preview of the full lyrics
The program is open source and distributed under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Download
For windows download and run the EXE, for other platforms download the JAR. Java is needed to run the program.
Usage
The program takes UTF-8 text files. If multiple lines should be shown on one frame, such as if two people are singing over each other, these should be on the same line in the file but separated by a <br> tag. For example: Hello there!<br>General kenobi!
To move the text on the projector screen and cue the next line you can use the following keyboard shortcuts:
| Shortcut | Description |
| Down arrow (S) | Cue the next line |
| Up arrow (W) | Cue the previous line |
| CTRL + Arrow keys (CTRL + WASD) | Move the text around on the screen |
| CTRL + SHIFT + Left/Right arrow keys (CTRL + SHIFT + A/D) | Rotate the text on the screen |
The save config button saves the current text configuration to the file .supertitles_config.cfg. This includes the text posision, rotation, font face, font style, font size, as well as if the config is locked or not. The load config button loads a previously saved config if available.