4 Simple Ways To Embed Subtitles In Videos

To embed subtitles into your video, you need an external SRT file containing subtitles for your video. If you do not have an SRT file, you can make one using a free app called Clideo SRT Editor, or you can code them by hand in Notepad or TextEdit.

Alternatively, you can drag and drop the video you want to embed subtitles into the box on the right.

If your video is available in Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, or Vietnamese, YouTube will automatically add captions to your video once it is processed. [1] X Research source If the captions aren’t as accurate as you’d like, you can edit them.

If automatic subtitles have already been generated, you’ll see DUPLICATE AND EDIT instead. If you choose this option, you can make changes to the subtitles manually, or upload your own transcript to replace them. To edit the timings of each automatic caption, click EDIT TIMINGS at the top of the window.

Click Upload file to upload a subtitle or closed-caption file that contains time codes. YouTube supports the following subtitle formats: . ASC, . CAP, . CIN, . DFXP, . LRC, . MPSUB, . RT, . SBV, . SAMI, . SCC, . SMI, . SRT, . STL, . SUB, . TDS, . TTML, and VTT. [2] X Research source If you are editing an automatically-subtitled video and want to upload a subtitle file, click the three vertical dots next to “EDIT TIMINGS” and select Upload file instead. If you do not have a caption file, you can make one using a free app called Clideo SRT Editor, or you can code them by hand in Notepad or TextEdit. If you choose this option, you’ll be prompted to choose With timing or Without timing and select Continue. Select your file and then click Save to proceed. Click Auto-sync if you want to paste a text transcript from another file and have YouTube sync it to the video. Once your transcript is added, click ASSIGN TIMINGS, and then click CLOSE. Click Type manually if you want to type the captions as you watch the video. YouTube will sync your captions to the video as long as you enter at least 5 lines of captions.

If you do not have a caption file, you can make one using a free app called Clideo SRT Editor, or you can code them by hand in Notepad or TextEdit. If you choose this option, you’ll be prompted to choose With timing or Without timing and select Continue. Select your file and then click Save to proceed.

This method can also produce a subtitled version of the video that you can download, although it will be watermarked.

You can also select a video from your Google Drive or Dropbox in the menu.

For example, if your first line should appear on the screen from 7 seconds in to 14 seconds in, drag the box to 7 seconds, and then expand or reduce the size of the box to hit the 14-second marker.

Continue adding subtitles and moving/resizing them as needed. This creates the timestamps in the SRT file. Once you add more subtitles, you’ll be able to overlap them to make multiple captions appear on screen at the same time. Just drag any subtitle so it overlap another at the desired timing.

You can also click Export to save a version of the video with built-in subtitles. Because the service is free, this will add the “Clideo” watermark to the corner of the video. But if you don’t mind that, choose this option and click Download to save it to your computer, phone, or tablet now.

Windows 10: Click the Windows Start menu, select the Windows Accessories folder, and choose Notepad. Mac: Click the magnifying glass icon in the upper-right corner. Type TextEdit. app and press Return. Click TextEdit. app. Click New Document.

Click the magnifying glass icon in the upper-right corner. Type TextEdit. app and press Return. Click TextEdit. app. Click New Document.

For example, the first subtitle starting at the beginning of the video may read 00:00:01,000. [3] X Research source

In TextEdit on Mac, click Save instead of “Save as”.

Using VLC, you can test the subtitles if the SRT file is saved to the same location and has the same filename as the video file. Click Subtitles and then select a subtitle track.

Windows: While saving the file in Notepad, delete the “. txt” extension at the end of the file name and replace it with “. srt”. Then click Save. Mac: Click Save to save the file as a “. rtf” file. Use Finder to navigate to the location of the file and click it once to select it. Click File and then Rename. Delete the “. rtf” extension at the end of the file name and replace it with “. srt”. Click Use . srt when asked if you want to keep the extension.