Add Subtitles Automatically in After Effects

foreign [Music] work is when they ask me to do subtitles it's really nothing but it I just feel like it kind of wastes my time and it's not really a fun thing to do so when I found this plugin called SF subtarus I was really excited to try it so there's two ways to add this subtitle onto your After Effects the first one is to just copy paste your script straight away so this is my script a really short one sentence so you can just like paste it like that or you can also import it in so hit import subtitles here and then look for the photo where your script is so what you need to do is if you have a Word document is to just like copy and paste it onto a notepad like I have here and save it as a text file so now you just need to change the format to text so there is my script so just double click on it and then it'll say subtitles files imported successfully literally the same thing whether you want to import your subtitle or if you just want to copy it and paste it now the next thing is to break up the script in two lines so if we just play this providing shelter and care for the homeless or supporting women and children escaping Family Violence basically it says the first part is providing shelter and care for the homeless and then the second part is supporting women and children and then there's another part that says escaping Family Violence so we're gonna split it into three in order to do that it's basically you just need to hit enter or create a new line basically the third line is escaping Family Violence so we have three lines at the moment now if you wanna create like a line break all you need to do is to just hit enter and leave that line empty and it will just create like kind of like a break there won't be any text there before we hit create subtitles I want you to choose your font first so choose whatever font it is that you want to use um I'm just gonna stick with monster and then I'm gonna do maybe bold and then set the text size as well and then after that you can create subtitles so once your subtitle is created it will create two layers the text layers and the subtitles background let's focus on the text first so I'm gonna hit you and as you can see here oh I actually have five keyframes here um so I think the last one we don't need it that's a line break I'm just gonna delete it these keyframes the first one is the providing shelter and care for the homeless the second one is the line break the one that we made before so it's like nothing the third one is supporting women children and last one escaping Family Violence so all you need to do is to just adjust these keyframes to where it belongs so I'm Gonna Leave the first keyframe as as is and then the second keyframe is the line break so I'm gonna put it around there and then the third one is supporting women children so I'm gonna put it around there we just have to make sure where the escaping Family Violence is so I'm gonna play it quickly so escaping Family Violence is about there so I'm gonna put it just before there so let's play it again providing shelter and care for the homeless or supporting women and children escaping Family Violence perfect next thing that I want to do is to adjust the background so you can change the background to whatever color you want so I'm just gonna change it to this blue color so there's still on brand with my film and then if you go under effect controls here there's two things that you can adjust the offset path and The Rounders so the opposite files is basically just the size of the block The Rounders is basically the round Edge all round corner here so at the moment set as 10 so if you bring it up it'll be like super rounded like that if you set it to zero obviously it becomes the like the normal rectangle kind of thing you can also adjust the opacity I believe um yeah so at the moment set to 50 and you can set it to 100 if you want um but I'm just going to leave it as 50. now say after you create all the subtitles you want to change the font size or even like the font itself in order to do that you gotta make sure to select all of the keyframes I think what you need to do is to make sure that your playhead is on top of the keyframes as well so once you play head is on top of one of the keyframes select them all edit and then you can edit these and then change the size to 40 and then hit apply let's have a look okay so now it's updated yeah just make sure that your playhead is on top of the keyframes and then if you want to adjust the position of the subtitles you can just select the text layer and just yeah move it around so that's it pretty easy and I hope this would be helpful for you too thanks so much for watching I'll see you next time

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Length: 5min 21sec (321 seconds)

Published: Tue May 02 2023