Here’s an example using an EBU format and you can see you get more options to tweak before you commit to saving. Which to choose really depends on your programme of choice. When you’re happy with your subtitles you can export them to a variety of file types depending on the programme you’ll import them in to. So now you can upload your audio or video if you want to, or make adjustments in the same way as we did earlier. You’ll see that things now look much the same as they did in the previous demonstration of writing subtitles from scratch. You can upload your audio or video if you want to, or make adjustments You can see a preview of your subtitles at the bottom with start/end times, duration, characters and so on. ‘ Auto-Split’ might work for you but if it doesn’t you can try changing it ‘ one line is one subtitle’. ‘Auto-Split’ might work for you but if it doesn’t you can try changing it ‘one line is one subtitle’. When it’s opened, you’ll see the text in one big paragraph – I’ve used some from a Lorum Ipsum generator to demonstrate. Click Open Text File and select your fileĬlick Open Text File and select your file. If you have a text transcript that you’d like to create subtitles from, here’s how to do it. Creating Subtitles from an Existing Text File If problems are being highlighted and you don’t think they’re a problem – for example, it’s picking up lines for being too long but they’re fine – you can adjust this in File > Settings > General, where you’ll find that option along with some other important behaviours that you can change to suit your particular needs. The colour will be in the column where the problem is flagging, so it’s easy to spot that and adjust it right away. That’s to either signify an overlap, or to let me know that the character limit is exceeding the recommended single line maximum. If it doesn’t, it’ll be highlighted in that red-orange colour. The blue is just my current selection and what’s changing, and whether that change works. Above, I’ve now adjusted the duration to deliberately clash the captions, one appearing before the other has disappeared, and you’ll see that in the middle left of the screen there’s now a warning that I have some overlap.īack to an earlier screenshot, you might wonder about the colours over the captions. Overlap and Errors Overlap and errorsĪt the top left of the screen you could probably see I had three lines that I’d typed in there. You’ll see that what you type will appear where you’ve paused the video, but you can adjust the exact start and duration with the boxes to the left of Text. To do that, you play your video until the point where you want to start adding captions, then pause it and type into the Text box. You can see above that I’ve typed in three lines of captioning already.
Drag your video (or audio, I’m using video) into the software and it’ll appear in the video (or audio) player Creating Subtitles from Scratchĭrag your video (or audio, I’m using video) into the software and it’ll appear in the video (or audio) player – it might ask you to install a compatible player if you don’t have one already. It’s quite a basic interface but it manages to avoid that cheap look that some software has, and honestly when it comes to video and subtitles, I generally think the less complicated it is, the better. This is how Subtitle Edit looks when you open it. Not only does it make it more accessible but it’s also better for social media views. Including captions with your videos is essential. How to Create and Adjust Captions Using Subtitle Edit Subtitle Edit is a free and open-source editor for video subtitles: creating them from scratch, editing existing subs, and even translating subtitles. Many are put off making subtitles because, let’s face it, it’s a long hard slog to include them. While video editing suites like Premiere Pro are catching up, they come at a price, and the majority of editors still make it quite difficult to create and edit captions.
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