As one of the extra things I wanted to create for this project, was to create a version of the first episode in english with Spanish subtitles. First of all, it is something that I have been wanting to do do for a while now, just for fun and for the experience, but now I actually have a big reason for it, which is for my mom to be able to watch the show and understand it since she doesn't really speak much english. Although it is something that I will be doing, I don't think it will be done by the end of this week since there still other more important pieces of work to do, but I will be posting it here on my blog as soon as it is done if anyone is interested in watching it. Of course the main part that I had to do, was the research of how to create them and the procedure step by step in order to do this efficiently.
The process can be complicated if you don't know how to do it, which is why in previous occasions I haven't done that well when making it happen. The first thing you have to do is:
- Create a document using Notepad, Word, Textedit or any other, and place a number 1 on top.
- After setting up the number one, for you number subtitle input, you must put the time wishing the movie in which that piece of dialogue is said, for example:
1
00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,400
Howdy!
The format follows: hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds
If you start repeating the process, you will end up getting a similar document like this one:
Now, there is a couple different ways of placing the subtitles into your project. The most common one among amateurs, which is also used when making a DVD or Blu-Ray, is to actually embed the subtitles into the project itself, making them part of it, so you would have a video where the subtitles will be there no matter what. This is actually very usual and normal, but it requires time, as you have to place the subtitles within the right time frame and at the exact position every time throughout the whole movie. If you don't have a software that can do this easier for you, it could become a hard and tireless task. If you have a 5 minute video, there should be not much of a problem, but if you are talking about a 60 min feature film, then you will be there for a while.
The other option which is much easier and is used a lot in the internet when sharing and downloading videos, is to create the subtitles as a file and then just add it to the film when watching on players like VLC for example. With the exact format like the image above, all you have to do is create a file with the extension .srt which is a standard for subtitles and any player that supports subtitles, will automatically read it as you would put in the file the times in which each subtitle should be played. This is way more easier and less time consuming, but the bad side of it is that the subtitles are not placed in the film, so it can become harder to share or upload to any online player.
In case this is still confusing I will be leaving here a video I found which is very useful on how to do this:
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