- How to edit SRT files online. So, let's say you have
an SRT file for a video, just like I have right here,
but you want to edit it due to the fact that there's a mistake in it, or the timings are off. For an example, my video
right here, if I press Play. Hey, Instagram. I'm just making this
video to say thank you for all the love and support
that you guys have been. As you can see, the
subtitles are appearing at the wrong time, and
I want to change that, and I'm gonna show you
a few different ways to edit your SRT files. Now I'm gonna show you
how to do it straight on your desktop, and also
how to do it online later. And if you don't actually
have an SRT file, at the end of the video, I'm also going to show you
how you can create an SRT file for your videos automatically. So, as you can see,
(icon blips) I've got my SRT file right here for the video. And the first thing I'm gonna
do is actually just copy and paste it due to the fact that I could mess the SRT file up, but I don't think this is gonna happen. And the reason being is we actually want to change the extension of this SRT file, and switch it to TXT, so a text file. (message blips)
And if I hit Enter, as you can see, we get
this prompt that appears, and I'm just gonna click Yes. It basically says that
it could become unusable, but don't worry, it never happens. So now as you can see,
I've got a .txt file. And this means that when I click on it, I can actually open it and see
the content of my SRT file, and edit it in the text editor. So, an SRT file is composed
of three different things. First of all, we've got the
number of the subtitles, so each subtitle has a number. Then we've got the timestamps and the time code for each subtitle. So we can see when it
starts appearing on screen and when it finishes appearing on screen. And then we've got the actual
content on the third line of the subtitle, the content
of the actual subtitle. So as you can see, every subtitle in this SRT
file is formatted the same way. (bubbles popping)
The number, the time code, and the actual content. (icon blips)
And so if I wanted to edit something here,
I could then go and just, let's say I wanted this
to be YouTube instead, I could go, hey, YouTube. And if I then go and save, or actually what I'm
gonna do to is show you an even better example, I'll
start this from zero seconds at the beginning of my video. So just like that. Then I'm gonna click Save. I'm gonna close it, and now I'm just gonna
change the name again just to adjust the extension, and this time I'm going
from TXT back to SRT. So if I just click Enter- (computer blips) Again, we get the extension,
we just click Yes. And now you'll notice that it's an SRT. So if I go Add Subtitle
File, and I choose the copy that we've just made which I edited, you'll notice it from the beginning. Hey, Instagram, I'm just making. I have the adjustments I made,
so it now starts from zero, because I started it from zero, and it says YouTube instead of Instagram. So, that's how to edit an SRT
file on your computer straight from your desktop. However, this is very time consuming, and it's very hard to do, and just the layout of it isn't very nice. So what we can do, which is a lot easier, is actually use an online subtitle editor. And we're gonna use one which is actually VEED's
Subtitle Converter. (button clicks) And during the conversion of
this subtitle, we can edit it. So you notice that if I
click Choose Subtitle, I click on Upload Subtitle, I'm then gonna choose
my subtitle that I want to make changes to, click Open, and now you can see we
actually have the subtitle laid out right here. And again, we can just go
through and do these same things. If I wanted to make changes, I can just do changes just like so. If I wanted this to be
hey, Facebook, boom, done. I can also adjust the
timing just like that. Again, if I want it to start from zero, I can then go ahead and do that. And then scroll down at the bottom, (icon blips) I can also add a new line,
add custom timestamps. This is a lot easier than the first method I just showed you. And plus here, we also have
some different adjustments. If I need to resync and
adjust the timing of all of my subtitles in one go because they're
a little bit delayed, I can go ahead (icon blips)
and do so just like so. As you can see, as if I change this, you can see the subtitle timings change in the editor right here. And then also I can do the encoding if you know what encoding you
want for your subtitle file. And then as you can see, we can actually choose the output format. So, if I wanted to take this
to a .txt file, I could, but I want to keep it as an SRT file. So with the changes I'm then made, (icon blips) I can then just click on
Download as SRT, it converts it, and now my SRT file is ready to download, and I do Download as SRT. And now I have my SRT file
(icon blips) that I've made changes to just right here. And that's pretty much how
to edit an SRT file for free, but let's say you don't
actually have an SRT file, and you need to create one for your video. Well, I'm gonna show you exactly
how to do that right now. And again, we're gonna be
using VEED.io, just the same. I already have an account,
but you can go ahead and create an account, and try VEED out for free.
(button clicks) However, some of the subgroup
subtitle file features are actually paying features. So, if I click on Create Video right here and Create Project, let me just make this
full screen real quick. (icon blips) Now, if I click on Upload a File, I'm gonna choose the video I
have on my desktop, click Open. And as you can see, it's now imported, and if I click Play. Hey, Instagram, I'm just making
this video to say thank you for all the. As we can see, there's
my video, no subtitles, and to add them automatically
to create an SRT file, I can just click on Subtitles right here in the left toolbar. Click on Auto Subtitle, select the language that I'm
talking in in this video. So, I'm speaking in English. And I can choose Great Britain, so I have the British
spelling of my subtitles, and then I click Start. This can take anywhere
between a few seconds to a few minutes, depending on your length of your video.
(words warbling) But once this is done, VEED has automatically generated subtitles from the audio of our video. So as you can see right here, (icon blips) and I've got subtitles that have appeared in three different locations First of all, I've got
them on my video canvas on the screen right here. I have them in the left subtitle editor, and I also have them in the timeline. And this is my favorite way
of actually editing SRT files. Because instead of having to
type in the times manually, I can just click and drag, I can also directly preview them, I can see what times they arrive, and then it's just a lot easier for me. And for example, if I want this subtitle to be two different subtitles
'cause it's too long, I select it and just click Split Subtitle. Now as you can see, we've
got two different subtitles. I can also choose to actually burn them into the video if I wanted to. At the end, if I click on Export, I can burn the subtitles in to the video. But for the SRT file option, I can actually just go to
Options, Download Subtitles, choose the format that I want them in, and then click on Download just like so. And now full disclosure, this
part, downloading SRT file, is actually a paying feature, but you can go back to the
subtitle editor converter and edit your subtitle files for free. But that is how to edit SRT files online. If you have any questions about
subtitles, closed captions, or SRT files, let us know in
the comment section down below. Thanks for watching. See you in the next video.
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