How to Add Subtitles to Video the Easy Way

Which kind of blog does not require a video? Well, I think mostly all sorts of websites need videos to be promoted or steps to be shown as a tutorial. If you are running a website which requires steps to be shown as tutorial then it is very necessary to add subtitles to the video which adds clarity to it. Check out how to add subtitles to a video.

HOW TO ADD SUBTITLES TO VIDEO

2 ways to create the srt (subtitle) file.

Option A:

Directly visit gosubtitle.com. 

Here you will get the option to select your video file and choose your source and destination language. Select the format as .srt

Option B: The manual method

Definitely, it is easier to get the srt file as mentioned in Option A. But if you face any difficulties then there is always the manual method. Example: I am having a video named ‘COLOURS’ in VLC player.

As you can see the snapshots of the video, not having any subtitles.

Steps to create srt subtitles file and sync it with vlc player

1. CREATE A TEXT DOCUMENT

Create a text document by clicking on New or go to Notepad and create an blank text document.

Name the text document with ‘SAME’ name as the video. In my example, it is ‘COLOURS’

2. CREATE SRT FILE FORMAT

You can download your SRT file format by directly visiting gosubtitle.com. By using this you can avoid Step 2 & 3. Next, we need to create a srt file format with the same file name as the video. Click Open your text file. Go to File> Save As

In the File Name put .srt extension. And select All Files. 

Choose UTF-8 for encoding and Save it.

Now you have got your srt file format. You can delete the text file if you want. You will be needing only the srt file format to add subtitles to the video.

3. THE SRT SUBTITLES

Open the srt file.

Write down your subtitles in the following way.

00:00:00,000 stands for Hour, Minutes, Seconds and Milliseconds.

00:00:00,000 –> 00:00:02,000 – Till 2 seconds the particular subtitle will be displayed.

This is Red Colour – This is the subtitle which you want to add.

00:00:00,000 –> 00:00:02,000 This is Red Colour

00:00:03,000 –> 00:00:05,000 This is Green

00:00:06,000 –> 00:00:07,000 This is Blue

HOW TO SYNC SUBTITLES IN VLC MEDIA PLAYER

To sync the subtitles in VLC player just make sure that both the files are located in the same folder or drive. It is recommended to make a separate folder and keep both the files. After putting the files in the same folder, play the VLC video and you can see the subtitles in the video.

The only problem with this method is that we will always need the srt file along with the video. So check out how to add the subtitles permanently to the video.

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HOW TO ADD SUBTITLES TO A VIDEO PERMANENTLY

If you want to add the subtitles permanently and would like to change the format to MP4 or anything else then download Ice Cream Screen Recorder.

The first 5 mins are FREE. So if you are making shorter videos for your blog or on YouTube then it will work fine. For longer videos, you need to upgrade it for $29.99 and that is an ONE-TIME FEE.

HOW TO USE ICE CREAM SCREEN RECORDER

1. After downloading the app go to capture video.

2. Next, you can select the custom area or can select the full screen to be recorded.

3. Once you have selected the previous option, start recording and play your VLC video along with the subtitles.

4. On completion, click stop.

5. This is a very important step as you need to put the same file name which was in your VLC video. In my example, it was ‘COLOURS’.

6. Now play the IceCream screen recorder video. You will find that this video already contains your subtitles and is perfect to publish videos on YouTube, Skill-shares, and others.

7. If you wish to convert it to other formats then go to Convertio. You can upload your video from a computer, Dropbox or G-Drive.

Click Convert and your converted video are ready to be downloaded.

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