Add subtitle to output video

Have recorded a movie by camcorder and wanna convert it to an AVI movie with your own dialogue? It's easiy with Any DVD Converter.

Any DVD Converter allows you to add external subtitle to output video. This feature helps you to make your own movie more professional and interesting. You can also upload to a movie with your own dialogue to YouTube to share your feelings and ideas. Here is a simple instruction which will show you how to add a subtitle made by youself to output video.

What is .SRT subtitle ?

SubRip caption files are named with the extension .SRT. SRT is perhaps the most basic of all subtitle formats. This format is supported by most software video players and subtitle creation programs. The time format used is hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds, with the milliseconds field precise to three decimal places.

SRT file does not contain any video data, it is a simple text file you can edit by any text editor. Thus you can translate subtitles into another language easily. The purpose of srt subtitle file is to use it with desired movie file together to display subtitles when you play video file by any player supporting srt subtitles.

If your video doesn’t include any subtitles, you can add a .srt file to this video folder, then you will be able to get a video with subtitles by converting this video using Any DVD Converter.

Step 1: Edit a .SRT subtitle

You can either download a .srt file from website and then modify it, or create .srt format subtitles totally on your own. To make .srt format subtitles, you can use Notepad, Wordpad, Dreamweaver or any other text editors. Here is an example.

Edit subtitle with a text editor

Notes: SRT consists of four parts, all in text.

a. A number indicating which subtitle it is in the sequence.
b. The time that the subtitle should appear on the screen, and then disappear.
c. The subtitle itself.
d. A blank line indicating the start of a new subtitle.

Step 2 : Save subtitles to .srt format.

In Notepat, please click menu File->Save As; change file name to "xxx.srt"; set "Save as type" to "All Files"; set "Encoding" to "ANSI" or "UTF-8".

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Notes: If you are using English subtitles, save .srt file with ANSI Encoding and if not (such as Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, etc), please use UTF-8 Encoding.

Step 3 : Copy .srt file to the folder, rename .srt file according to the video name.

Note: If you add more than one .srt files to the AVI folder, you can rename the .srt file name like this: if source AVI file name is “michael.avi”, the .srt file names can be “michael001”, “michael002”, etc.

Step 4 : Add the video file to Any DVD Converter.

Step 5 : Select .srt Any DVD Converter

Go to the right panel of Any DVD Converter, unfold Audio Options, and select .srt subtitle in Subtitle drop-down list.

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Step 6 : Change subtitle position, size and font

Encoding: Please set “UTF-8 (UTF-8)” as the default format for subtitle encoding.

Position: Adjust the slide bar to change the position of the subtitles on screen.

Size: Increase/Decrease scales of subtitles according to movie height, width, and diagonal.

Font: Please follow this directory C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\; choose your desired font; right click on the font name to choose Properties; copy and paste the font name, such as “ARIAL.TIF” to subtitle font option.

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After you finish editing the subtitle options, please click OK to go back to the main interface.

Step 7 : Preview the video before encoding.

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Step 8 : Start converting

Start converting the file to the your desired output format if you feel satisfied with the subtitles. After converting, open output folder and play output video, you will find that the subtitle has been added just as what you set.

Subtitle formats

.SRT format is the most basic subtitle format but it's not the only one. For Any DVD Converter, you can also try subtitle format with .sub extension.