How to sew subtitles yourself

Many people prefer to watch foreign films without translation, that is, in the original, but with subtitles. This is especially true for those who teach this or that language and seeks to learn to perceive it by ear. Also subtitles are simply irreplaceable for people with a hearing defect. And, perhaps, someone does a home video, where I would also like to insert written text. Can I make subtitles for movies myself? Yes, this is absolutely real. All that is necessary to perform this task is the installation of one of the special programs-video editors. One of them is Adobe Premier Pro.

Download and install this editor on your computer, open and create a new project in it. Next, you need to import a file with a movie or another video and place it on the video track. To sew subtitles, in the "File" menu, find the "New" command and create a title with it. When the window for this is opened, you need to copy or paste the text you need into parts by it. It should be located at the bottom of the screen. Depending on the overall color scheme of the image, try to make the inscription contrast, so that it is convenient to read. That is, if the general background is light, the titles should be dark, and vice versa.

The created text should be located exactly under the frame in which the phrase sounds, on the video track located above the main track. It is necessary to pay attention to the speed with which the inscription appears and disappears. After you sew the subtitles turned out, you need to check whether you have time to read them. To do this, you need to run the slider on the player by pressing the space bar.

It is necessary to ensure that the inscriptions do not overlap one another, were noticeable in the frame and appeared at the right time. You can make a preview of the video directly in Adobe Premier Pro. When you make sure that everything is done neatly, you can start exporting the movie from the project.

There is another program that can help those who do not know how to sew subtitles. It's called Pinnacle Studio. It can also be downloaded on the Internet and installed on your computer. When you do, open it and load the movie you need by going to the "Installation" tab 2 and clicking on the folder icon without the arrow. Open the file with the mouse and drag it to the bottom window, which is called "My Movie 1".

Before sewing subtitles, you will need to divide the entire movie into parts. How many will be, depends on the amount of text that sounds in the film. You need to choose a site where there are two or three small phrases. You need to find out if they fit in two lines of credits (it is not recommended to do more than two lines, because it will be too difficult to read). Once you have decided, set the slider at the beginning of the phrase, click once on the frame, then right click on the menu, where you select "Split Clip". After that, place the slider in the part of the video where the desired text ends and divide the clip again.

The next step, how to sew subtitles, will be the process of inserting them. To do this, select any part of the cut video where you want to paste the text, then click on the letter "T", located among the buttons with icons on the left side of the screen.

You will see a lot of sample titles. Select one of them and double-click with the left mouse button. You will see that this sample appeared on the bottom line right under the frame you need. Now on it now you also need to click twice, so that the editing window appears. Here you can insert the desired text and experiment with the size, color and shape of the font.

Also you can choose the location of future titles, moving and turning the window. Once you are satisfied with the result, click OK. This will save the changes and return you to your video, where you can scroll through what you've got in the viewing screen on the right and select the next passage to insert captions. Until you decide that you can output the movie, you can edit the text inserted into it as often as you want.