Aim for top and bottom lines of roughly equal length for better visual balance. ✍️ Linguistic Best Practices To maintain readability, split text at "natural" points:
workflows (e.g., Aegisub, DaVinci Resolve) subtitle split
Keep "linguistic wholes" together (e.g., don't separate a subject from its verb or a preposition from its noun). Aim for top and bottom lines of roughly
Always prioritize splitting after periods, commas, or dashes. subtitle split
🚀 If your text is very long, it is often easier to merge two short lines first and then manually re-split them at the most linguistically natural point.