ADDING
SUBTITLES TO
VIDEOS

WHY BOTHER?
• Increased accessibility for everyone

WHY BOTHER?
• Increased accessibility for everyone
• Improves search engine optimization

WHY BOTHER?
• Increased accessibility for everyone
• Improves search engine optimization
• Delivers content on muted videos

PREPARING
SCRIPT
A D D I N G S U B T I T L E S TO V I D E O S – PA R T 1

S T E P 1
If not already done, transcribe
your video.

STEP 2 - PASTE INTO NOTEPAD

STEPS 3-7
• Remove:
– Titles or attributions
– Spaces between lines
• Include line breaks between each
sentence
• Break up longer sentences into
multiple lines
• Add lines for sounds, like cheering
Step 8: Save as .txt file

ASSIGNING
TEXT TO VIDEO
TIMELINE
A D D I N G S U B T I T L E S TO V I D E O – PA R T 2

MEDIA SUBTITLER

MEDIA SUBTITLER
Free program available at
http://www.divxland.org/en/med
ia-subtitler/

MEDIA SUBTITLER
Script Video

MEDIA SUBTITLER
Under File menu, import text file of
script and import video.

MEDIA SUBTITLER
First line should be highlighted
Captioning Mode should be
Press and Hold

MEDIA SUBTITLER
Start video from the beginning
Hold down Apply button when you want
caption to start. Let go when you want caption
to end. Repeat.

MEDIA SUBTITLER
Area to edit if you need to
change text

MEDIA SUBTITLER
Timings
for lines
appear

SAVING THE FILES
• Under File menu, choose Save As

SAVING THE FILES
• Under File menu, choose Save As
• Select SRT option (which is used on social media platforms)

SAVING THE FILES
• Under File menu, choose Save As
• Select SRT option (which is used on social media platforms)
• Facebook requires file names to include “.en_US.”
– Example: vaqueroroundup.srt should be saved as vaquerorounup.en_US.srt

ADDING
SUBTITLES ON
SOCIAL MEDIAA D D I N G S U B T I T L E S T O V I D E O – P A R T 2

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