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How to Subtitle Your Videos
By: Siddharth Bhatia   |   Apr 22, 2008

Hard subbing
This is the fun and involving part, though not that tough to execute. I use VirtualDub; you can get it here. It's probably the best AVI tool available. Install VirtualDub with all the plugin options; you are required to do this in the option provided while installation wizard. The main file we will need is actually from VobSub installation, namely called text sub, and it shows up as an option while running the wizard.

Once this is done, it's very easy. All you need is the sub file (placed in a folder you can remember). Then open VirtualDub, get in your video, go to filter (Ctrl+F), and add the text sub-filter. The plugin will open and ask for the subtitle file (.srt), so browse and locate it. That’s all. Preview once and render. It could take a while.

Conclusion
There are other means, but they are lengthier and require more plugins and steps. This gets the job done, and is practical. So, to sum up, you need to either download the files from the net, or create your own, then it’s up to you whether you want to hard sub or soft sub. Last but not least, do respect the developers of the software!


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nwaung @ Oct 12, 2008
hey i hv downloaded a movie with high definition graphics.can i play this on my 15"crt monitor?if yes then please tell me how?
shivam @ Jul 03, 2008
but while re-encoding the size of the file gets reduced by around 200 MB (if source file is 700MB).....is there any way to avoid this.
hOLLA @ Apr 26, 2008
Hi 'N'. you have obviously not understood what the writer was saying, though it is very simply laid out.If it is DivX then you don't NEED to hard sub anything, as the standard allows for objects like subtitles to be decoded, as separate files in the DivX folder...
If you want to watch on a old DVD player(no DivX), or just want permanent subtitles embedded in the video itself, then you can 'hardsub', on the PC. Use the software mentioned and then save as divX/ Xvid cd and it will play on your player, without having to choose anything.
shaan @ Apr 26, 2008
Your article shares a lot of information but provides very little help. I have a Sony DVD-DivX player that doesn't recognize .srt or .sub files. But if it's part of the DivX file, it reads it. When I mean part of it, you have the option of turning it off or on, and not "hard-subbing" it as you say.

Any ideas?
N @ Apr 25, 2008
been there done that... :P
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TUX @ Apr 25, 2008
i use "Subtitle Workshop"
easy to use and supports almost all types of formats

@Kailash
AVImux is used for muxing (combining) audio and video into "avi" container
HiTmAn @ Apr 25, 2008
Why is that all your articles are PC centric. You rarely provide anything for Mac users. Although Mac has many built in software but some light on it would be helpful. or do you think mac users do not need to put subtitles!
harsh @ Apr 23, 2008
in virtualdub, you need to:
press ctrl F, go to add filters...and use TEXTSUB...it will show up as TEXTSUB...then you can select the subtitle file and it will be hardsubed
siddharth @ Apr 23, 2008
i keep hearing of AVImux whats that for? and i installed vobsub and use subtitles files as you mentioned, it works ok when i play on PC, but when sing virtualdub i'm having problem, there iis no choice od vobsub in the filters...
kailash @ Apr 23, 2008
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