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How to Add Subtitles to a Movie

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How to Add Subtitles to a Movie

Subtitles can be a great way to improve your understanding of the spoken dialogue in movies. Even if you understand English perfectly, subtitles allow you to see what is being said. When there are many different people speaking at once or during louder scenes with music playing. It also helps with reading comprehension skills for kids and ESL learners. 

There are two ways that you can add subtitles to a movie: one is through the software used to make the video and the other is using an online subtitle service. The first option will cause it to show up on all devices but may not have as high quality of translation or synchronizing between audio and text as some services do. So let's take a look at how you can add subtitles in a movie!

What is a Subtitle?

Subtitles are the written form of spoken audio-visual information. They use a special typeface, sometimes called teletext or caption font. That is easy to read at a small size and often placed below other video content like movies. For people who can't hear what's being said on the screen. Subtitles allow you to see what is being said when there are many different people speaking at once or during louder scenes with music playing. It also helps with reading comprehension skills for kids and ESL learners. 

How to Add Subtitles from Your Software Used To Make Movies?

If you are using a video editing software like iMovie for Mac, then there should be an option to turn your voiceover into subtitled text when adding it into your project. You'll want to use this if you know that only some people will need subtitles. Because they're hard-of-hearing or learning English as their second language. For example, others might find them distracting even though they speak perfect English themselves. If you love watching thai series but are unable to understand them then you can download the series subthai and enjoy the series.

How to Add Subtitles from Online Service?

If you want subtitles for everyone, then the best option that we offer here at EnglishCentral is our service called "Add Your Own Subtitles" or AYS for short. You can upload your video with any software by using a Vimeo URL (more info about uploading below), YouTube link or Google Drive file and select it as an MPL Project in EnglishCentral's proprietary system. Once uploaded, use the online editor to add subtitle text on top of the movie to replace all spoken dialogue with its written form.

The amazing thing about AYS is that when someone speaks in another language while they are not speaking in their native tongue,  subtitles will be automatically translated and added to the video in their native language. This is a great way for someone who speaks English as an additional language to learn new words or phrases that they can use in other contexts!

How To Add Subtitles From Google Drive?

When you upload your movie from Google Drive, like YouTube or Vimeo, there are two ways: one is by uploading it using AYS service and another one is by adding subtitle text on top of the movie file with our online editor after it's uploaded.

-Uploading Your Movie Using Ays Service: Visit this page and follow instructions until you reach the "Add subtitles" section. You'll need to select the MPL Project option, add project name if desired , and upload your video file. Once uploaded, go to the "Edit Project" tab on top of the page and add subtitle text with our online editor by clicking "Add subtitles".

Conclusion 

A subtitle is a text translation of the dialogue in one or more languages for viewers who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or otherwise do not speak the original language. These translations are timed to appear on screen when they would be spoken during normal viewing. There are three different types of subtitles: SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard-of), SRTs (separate audio track captioning) and ASSes (for animated content).

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