Today I planned to share a very common and useful thing, i.e, how to
create movie subtitles with just a notepad. Generally, when there is a
language difference, subtitles are used for better understanding of
movie's conversations. A specific type of file format called .srt file
are globally used for movie subtitles. Today I am going to tell you how
to create a .srt file using notepad.
What is .srt file ?
.srt file stands for SubRip Text files. It contains simple formatted text data which was first written in France. The data in the .srt file is written in the following format.
Subtitle number
Start time --> End time
Subtitle texts
Blank line
The Start time and End time are written in hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds format.
How to write ?
To create a subtitle just open your notepad and start editing it as per the video.
Just see the below example and you will have a better understanding.
1
00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,600
Hey Sumit are you in market now ?
2
00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:27,700
Oh sorry, I really forgot to go there ?
3
00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,600
Don't tell me sorry. It was really urgent ! !
I will suggest you one thing here, just copy and paste the above code in a notepad file and save it with any name in .srt extension.
Now open any mp4 file with VLC media player and drag-drop the .srt file on it.
Similar to above code you can also write more subtitles for your movie.
Explaining the code ?
The text is not at all difficult to understand. It has been written in plain text but with a specific format.
You just need to be careful about the timing. For example I can tell you, if you play the above .srt file, the dialog "Oh sorry, I really forgot to go there ?" will come at 24 second 900 millisecond and will stay on screen upto 27 second 700 millisecond.
So you just play your movie and side by side go on adding as much dialog as you want in the notepad by setting proper time.
P.S
This is one of my best trick which i am sharing now. If u like this so please comment below ty :)
What is .srt file ?
.srt file stands for SubRip Text files. It contains simple formatted text data which was first written in France. The data in the .srt file is written in the following format.
Subtitle number
Start time --> End time
Subtitle texts
Blank line
The Start time and End time are written in hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds format.
How to write ?
To create a subtitle just open your notepad and start editing it as per the video.
Just see the below example and you will have a better understanding.
1
00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,600
Hey Sumit are you in market now ?
2
00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:27,700
Oh sorry, I really forgot to go there ?
3
00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,600
Don't tell me sorry. It was really urgent ! !
I will suggest you one thing here, just copy and paste the above code in a notepad file and save it with any name in .srt extension.
Now open any mp4 file with VLC media player and drag-drop the .srt file on it.
Similar to above code you can also write more subtitles for your movie.
Explaining the code ?
The text is not at all difficult to understand. It has been written in plain text but with a specific format.
You just need to be careful about the timing. For example I can tell you, if you play the above .srt file, the dialog "Oh sorry, I really forgot to go there ?" will come at 24 second 900 millisecond and will stay on screen upto 27 second 700 millisecond.
So you just play your movie and side by side go on adding as much dialog as you want in the notepad by setting proper time.
P.S
This is one of my best trick which i am sharing now. If u like this so please comment below ty :)
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ReplyDeleteExcellent
ReplyDeletelol
DeleteI do everything right but result is that text looks like this:
ReplyDelete500 --> 00:01:32,000
I have .srt file, videos MP4, VLC Media Player but still don't work.. What went wrong?
try to rename your .srt file as same as your movie name. and put them in a same folder then try to open your movie
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DeleteIts done successfully !
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This is insane.Everyone knows this.
ReplyDeleteI didn't and it was very helpful.
DeleteMe too, and am going to create subtitle for this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAJwpWqsfDY
DeleteI didn't know this.
DeleteYou were born knowing huh?
DeleteI didn't. Very good info. Keep up good work :).
DeleteOk my sanity invokes me to do some insane
Deleteits working but we i rewind the video the subs wont appear unless i start playing it again.. reply as soon as possible plzz
ReplyDeleteSave the .srt with the same name of the .mp4
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ReplyDeleteI dis the same, exactly how it is written , but still doesn't work, the subs are showing but not on the time I have written them to show, and the time is written correctly, used hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds
ReplyDeleteuse hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds
Delete,milliseconds not :milliseconds
that should work
Thanks for sharing this
ReplyDeleteHi i want to show only single line like "Hi Hello My name is xyz" on my 6 minute video can you please tell me how to do write for this please
ReplyDeleteTo show milliseconds with VLC played videos check out this tutorial http://www.latestsolution.com/2016/06/Show-VLC-Timing-In-Millisecond.html
ReplyDeleteinteresting and helpful
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ReplyDeletewhat code to color and font size and font?
ReplyDeleteWhat ?
DeleteFor font colour, use html codes
ReplyDeleteYou save my day!!! Thanks a lot.
ReplyDeleteHow to embed the .srt file in the video
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ReplyDeleteThank you. This thread was very helpful!
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