Product Documentation

SurtitleLive Guides

0Account & Setup

0.1 Creating Your Account

Register, verify your email, and understand the required profile details.

0.2 How to Verify Your Email

Verify your email address, understand the verification screen, and know what to do if the email does not arrive.

0.3 How to Reset Your Password in SurtitleLive

Reset your password after clicking the email link and understand how the shared sign-in action page works.

0.4 First Login & Dashboard Overview

Get oriented with the dashboard, navigation, and mobile-device expectations.

0.5 Creating a New Project

Create a project, choose its status, and stay within active and archived project limits.

0.6 Managing Your Projects

Open, edit, archive, unarchive, or delete projects from the dashboard.

0.7 Redeeming an Invitation Code

Redeem a trial or promo code from the Membership page if your account is eligible.

0.8 How to Accept a Team Invitation

Accept a team invitation link, handle email verification, and fix the most common account-mismatch blockers.

0.9 Inviting Team Members

Invite collaborators, assign roles, and understand team limits on Pro.

0.10 Managing Team Members

Change roles, disable access, or remove members from your organization.

0.11 Managing Organization Identity

Update your organization name, review the locked organization ID, and understand owner and plan restrictions.

0.12 Managing Membership, Billing & Credits

Review plans, billing, credits, invoices, and subscription actions from one place.

0.13 Viewing Credit Usage

Track AI credit consumption, weekly resets, and what happens when you run low.

0.14 Security Alert Actions

Use sign-in alert links to confirm that a sign-in was yours or report it as suspicious.

0.15 Troubleshooting Without a Logs Page

Use visible workflow status, Credit Usage, deployment banners, and retry prompts when there is no general Logs page.

0.16 Error Messages & Troubleshooting

Decode common project, translation, deployment, auth, and operator-session issues.

0.17 Glossary of Terms

Look up the key product terms used across SurtitleLive guides and interfaces.

0.18 How to Request a Refund in SurtitleLive

Request a refund from the Membership page and understand the current refund eligibility and review flow.

Follow the live subtitle workflow

Pick the stage you are working on. Each step shows the product guides for that part of the setup.

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Editor & Translation

Review lines, languages, translations, prompts, exports, and backups before rehearsal.

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2.1 Editor Quick Start

Use the core editor controls for languages, AI translation, simulation, and export.

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Editor & Translation

2.2 Opening the Script Editor

Understand the editor layout, toolbar, collaboration behavior, and read-only access.

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2.3 Editing Lines & Roles

Edit text, speakers, line types, order, flags, locks, and other row-level controls.

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2.4 Adding & Managing Languages

Add or remove project languages and work within your plan's language limits.

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2.5 Using AI Translation

Configure source and target languages, translation modes, and AI translation options.

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2.6 Writing Effective Translation Prompts

Write better AI prompt instructions for tone, rhythm, subtext, and stage intent.

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2.7 Exporting Your Script

Export scripts to XLSX, PPTX, DOCX, or QLab import pack format and understand Free trial-export limits.

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2.8 Exporting a QLab Import Pack

Download a projection-only QLab 5 import pack from the Editor and import SurtitleLive subtitle Text cues into an offline QLab workspace.

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2.9 Backing Up Your Project

Create local backups with exports and understand what SurtitleLive already saves automatically.

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2.10 Restoring Your Project

Restore from original DOCX files or SurtitleLive-generated XLSX backups through Excel Restore (Test); general XLSX/PPTX import is not supported.

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