Subtitle Workshop is the most complete, efficient and convenient freeware subtitle editing tool. It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features you would want from a subtitle editing program. Subtitle Workshop makes subtitle creating/editing/converting tasks almost a pleasure, the amicable and intuitive interface mixes easy to access menus & must have features with advanced functions and a remarkable speed and stability, drastically reducing subtitle editing time. It includes spell check function and an advanced video preview feature which will ease the task even more. The best choice for the beginner, expert or the fansubber. Have a try, and you'll forget the rest!
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it could be improved (do not read by default most of AVI files - you need to find and donwload a codec package by yourself if you want to actually see and sync subtitles with video).
Still it's a very good program, quite intuitive and easy to use
Very easy to use. Used it for adding subtitles to my YouTube videos. I could view the video I was adding subtitles to there in the application, and preview all the subtitles I had created.
There are still some things to improve... but it's the best :D
The best subtitle editor...and it's FREE!!!