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No matter what language is spoken, everyone loves to watch movies. The problem is that most movies don’t have the budget to pay for translation into multiple languages, meaning you won’t be able to understand the movie depending on your geographic location. Whether you want to add subtitles to your favorite movies or need to subtitle your movies, translating movies is not too difficult, but it does take time and patience.
This article talks about how to add subtitles to movies without subtitles. If you want to know how to turn on subtitles when watching a movie, click here.
Steps
Download new subtitles
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Note that you can only add movie subtitles on your computer. If your current DVD movie doesn’t have subtitles under “Settings” or “Language” on the DVD menu, you won’t be able to add subtitles without using advanced software and equipment. DVDs are protected and cannot be rewritten, and the DVD player will not be able to add new languages. However, a computer is a completely different device, and you can add any new movie subtitles you want to a movie watched on your computer.
- If you’re watching the movie on a DVD player, try pressing the “title” or “subtitle” button on the DVD player remote.
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Find the movie you want to add subtitles to on your computer and put it in a separate file. Find the movie file or folder in Finder or Windows Explorer. Usually, it will be a .mov, .avi, or .mp4 file. Fortunately, you don’t need to edit the movie file, however, you will need to find it and associate it with a new subtitle file. Subtitle files will usually have the .SRT extension, and simply include the words and the time each subtitle should appear in the movie.
- You need to put the movie file together with the .SRT subtitle file, so that it can read the subtitles.
- Some older subtitle files may have the .SUB extension. [1] X Research Source
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Search the internet for “Movie Name + Language + Subtitles” to find the right file. Use your preferred search engine to find subtitles in your language. For example, if you need Indonesian subtitles for the movie X-Men: First Generation, you can search for “X-Men: First Class Indonesian Subtitles”. The first website you find will usually be suitable for use, these files are small in size and usually do not contain viruses. [2] X Research Source
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Find the movie subtitles you want and download the .SRT file. Download a .SRT file from a website, such as Subscene, MovieSubtitles, or YiFiSubtitles. Make sure you avoid advertising messages and only download .SRT or .SUB files. If you feel insecure about the site, leave and find another one.
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Rename the subtitle file to match the movie file. If the movie name is BestMovieEver.AVI, your subtitles must be named BestMovieEver.SRT. Find the downloaded file anywhere (usually in the “Downloads” folder) and make sure you rename it appropriately. The .SRT file name must be the same as the movie name. [3] X Research Sources
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Leave the .SRT file in the movie folder . Create a new movie folder if you don’t already have one. Put the .SRT file in the same folder as the movie. This will automatically link them in most video players.
- VLC player is the easiest and free video player that handles most file formats.
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Add .SRT files to YouTube movies you post by selecting “Captions” when you upload . After selecting Captions, click “Add a Caption Track” and find your .SRT file. Make sure you turn on the “Caption Track” feature and turn off the “Transcript Track” feature. Click the “CC” button when watching a video to activate the subtitles.
Create your own subtitles (three ways)
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Understand the purpose of subtitles. Subtitles are translations, and anyone who has ever used Google Translate knows that translation is both an art and a science. If you’re subtitling a scene, you need to consider each line carefully:
- What is the purpose of the dialogue? Regardless of the words they use, what is the emotion the character is trying to convey? This is the guiding principle when you translate.
- How do you adjust the subtitles to the right time when the character is talking? Some people will choose to show several lines of dialogue at once, starting early and ending a little late to give viewers time to read through.
- How do you deal with slang and rhetorical forms? They often don’t translate properly, so you’ll need to substitute slang or rhetoric into your native language. However, this requires you to look up the meaning of foreign idioms and slang. [4] X Research Sources
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Use a subtitle generator website to efficiently add subtitles to any movie file. Sites like DotSub, Amara, and Universal Subtitler let you watch a movie while writing down the subtitles, and then output a .SRT file that matches the movie. Even though captioning sites work differently, they all follow the same format:
- Choose when the title appears.
- Write down the title.
- Choose when the title disappears.
- Repeat throughout the movie, marking “Complete” when you’re done.
- Download the .SRT file and place it in the same folder where the movie is located. [5] X Research Sources
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Create your own titles using Notepad. Although this process is done quickly with a program, you can write the title yourself if you want. To do so, open text editing software, such as Window’s Notepad or Apple’s TextEdit (both free and pre-installed), and make sure you know the appropriate format for the subtitles. Before you start, select “Save As” and name it “Movie.SRT Name”. Then set the encoding to “ANSI” for English subtitles and “UTF-8” for non-English subtitles. [6] X Research Sources Next, write down your captions. Each section will be written on its own line, so press “enter” after each line:
- Subtitle number. 1 will be the first subtitle, 2 will be the second subtitle, etc.
- Subtitle duration. The duration is written in the format hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds –> hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds (hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds)
- Example: 00:01:20:003 –> 00:01:27:592
- Subtitle content: This is the content of the subtitle.
- An empty line. Leave a blank line before the next subtitle number. [7] X Research Sources
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Create subtitles in movie editing software to avoid dealing with .SRT files. This method allows you to see the subtitles as they are added and manually adjust the position, color, and style. Open the movie file with movie editing software, such as Premier, iMovie, or Windows Movie Maker, and drag the movie into the time series (working part). From here, hit the “Titles” menu on the software and choose the style you like. Write down the title, drag it to the top of the appropriate movie location, and repeat.
- You can right-click on a title, copy and paste it so that every title has the same format, which saves time.
- The only downside to this format is that the movie will need to be saved as a separate file. You won’t be able to turn off the subtitles, as they are now part of the movie.
Advice
- When searching for a .SRT file, you must select a file with the same name as the movie. If not available, just change the name after downloading.
Warning
- Do not download the .SRT file if the filename is not the same as the movie name, or at least quite similar.
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wikiHow is a “wiki” site, which means that many of the articles here are written by multiple authors. To create this article, 13 people, some of whom are anonymous, have edited and improved the article over time.
This article has been viewed 5,964 times.
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This article talks about how to add subtitles to movies without subtitles. If you want to know how to turn on subtitles when watching a movie, click here.
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