My Top 3 Free Ways To Permanently Add, Hardcode or Burn Subtitles to Video or Movie

in this video i'd like to talk about my top three free ways to permanently add hard code or ban subtitles into a video or movie welcome to this video my name is david and i hope you're well wherever you are around the world so i'll walk you through the three tools that i normally use uh depending on the scenario i tell you what i like about each and every tool and what i don't like so let's begin and for this video i have a bunch of subtitles here and i do have a video file corresponding to the subtitles uh so let's begin tool number one handbrake so handbrick and i'll leave all the links in the description below this is handbrake from handbrake.fr pretty good uh application to permanently add subtitles to your video so you can just drag and drop your video here it's going to scan and all that i love it because it's quick and easy and if all i wanted to do was bind subtitles i just click on subtitles the one thing that i don't like is that they change the option to import the subtitle you cannot see the tab here nowadays you need to click on trucks import subtitle and then you select the subtitle that you want to permanently bond to the video uh the other thing i don't like about handbrake is that you cannot preview what the subtitle will look like before you burn it and also you cannot select a font if you wanted to choose a font so let's say we just use any of this just click on that open and then ensure that since we want to bind it to the video click on this button uh something else that you might need to do is you might need to do the constant bit rate if you do the average uh ensure you have the the two pass encoding so let's say that's all we wanted to do we have our video here and then we have our subtitles here and i believe also something else i don't i really like about this is that you don't see the source file name so for example it's uh it says here language english but i'm not so sure the subtitle i selected is in english so that's a problem but i love the fact that you have character encoding here you can choose whatever you want but it would be easier if we had uh just a better interface here so once you're done just click on start encoding because handbrake is one of the best transcoding applications out there once you click on that since it's a one pass depending on the strength of your laptop or your system this is going to be an easy and peasy thing i also love the fact that handbrake is available for multiple platforms windows linux mac so everybody's catered for so those are just some of the few things pretty fast uh to ban this uh the only problem or the issue that we have is that there's no flexibility so it's already done uh the one thing that you can see is that from the activity log you can always uh go down and see what font was used you can actually check out and see i believe you can see the font that was used somewhere somewhere somewhere here let's see it should be somewhere here but uh what i'm trying to say is that you can see what type of okay language english it is c barn is true [Music] range um not really sure but uh but i believe it should be somewhere here uh you can see uh what uh font was actually used but the downside is that you cannot select your own font you cannot preview before you start burning uh you can also you can also not see the name of the subtitle that you just input here because you may forget what languages it is in and that might be important if you want to to set the character encoding that's tool number one because it's super fast and it's a quick and scrappy way to actually do this uh so that's handbrake let's go to tool number two tool number two i'll go for davinci resolve and the reason why i'm going for davinci resolve as well is that it's because it's available for windows linux and mac uh and basically you can work with it you'll be able to see the type of fonts so we can just create a new project sample for youtube just click on create and then what we might need to do here is we might need to drag in our files let's just drag in uh this one uh it's uh the video and arabic subtitle uh don't change so what we can do is we can just uh create a new timeline using selected clips yes create and then go to the edit page so if you cannot see this section if this is what is selected you need to show the media pool and this is our video or basically our timeline so this is our subtitle all you need to do is just drag and drop it inside here and since this is already timed uh basically you just need to work with what we have let's just drag and drop it back again so we have it inside here if i click on it probably you may think nothing has happened now in davinci resolve since arabic subtitles are read and written or are written and read from right to left then you need to actually use the stroke so you go to the style on this side click on style and then just nudge the stroke to the beginning or basically just bring it to zero once you bring it to zero you'll be able to see the subtitles if it's anything above there you will not see the subtitles although they are there so let's bring it to zero and if i look at this one i know the full stops are somewhere here so the other good thing with davinci resolve is that you can set a background let's say we add a background there and then if we scroll down we can override sizing but since uh there isn't update this subtitle actually auto resizes based on your subtitles all the way the yeah so it's good as it is you can also go for something let's say we want to change the style for this you can actually undo that for this one and then let's say you change the position to somewhere like there and then the y axis to somewhere like that so you've only affected this one subtitle uh block uh but when you come back to the others uh it's pretty awesome so if you're looking for something that will offer you more uh flexibility davinci resolve is one of the other three ways you can actually burn subtitles to your video and it allows you the placement the backgrounds especially for the styles and you can do whatever you want based on this so the downside might be that it might be a little bit heavy for your system but i think that if you're looking for some of the few customizations that we've worked with and you're working on a workflow that involves davinci resolve then this is something that you can consider uh and once you're satisfied with uh your your selections or your edits and all that if you want to bind the subtitles to the video just click on deliver and once you click on that always remember to tylo to title your video let's call it binding subtitles and davinci resolve and then the one thing that is important and you may forget is to ensure that the subtitle settings click on these settings down here and then there's an option to check export subtitle it's not as a separate file but remember to do the ban into video you can also embed the captions as a sideka where if you're playing the video on let's say an application like vlc you can turn the subtitles on and off but we want the ban into video and that is what we want you can always render to queue uh and then work with that once everything is done so just add to render queue just click on save so here we go if you're satisfied with all this if you just uh done with that just click on render all if that is all you wanted to do so this is the time remaining and you can see in real time the render process happening uh inside davinci resolve but basically from the two options we've already looked at handbrake is quick and easy with davinci resolve you may need to do some few adjustments and the reason why you may need to use davinci resolve is if you're working on a workflow that you are editing videos in davinci resolve but you want to add subtitles to the video so i will not wait for this to complete but once it's done it's going to give us a video with binding subtitles let's move on to the third and final way that i personally use and recommend most of the time uh let's just stop this so uh that's da vinci we can close that out and the final way that i always recommend is called subtitle edit now this particular option to use or to burn in subtitles to a video in subtitle edit was updated in i believe subtitle edit 3.6.3 if i'm not mistaken and the reason for this is this application is free it's available for windows and linux unfortunately for mac i i don't believe it's available but one of the things that was lacking from subtitle edit is the option to burn in subtitles but luckily the creator of this particular application actually added the option to burn in subtitles now let's just drag and drop our video inside here so let's just drag and drop our video uh basically if we do that it's going to give us that option let's open the video from url let's go here just open video so we have our video here and then we can just go to file open keep video uh let's assume we just want to go with any of this just click on that let's click on open so or basically let's choose another file open keep video let's say we go with what this i believe is russian yes that's russian so something of that sort now this is pretty awesome because uh one of the things that was lacking is the option to burn in subtitles into the video a couple of things i like about this the fact that you can change the font you can change the format of the subtitles and you can also even preview so if you go to video generate video with binding subtitles just click on that if you're using let's say a subrip the format here is a subrip or srt subtitle then you have the option to change the font size something that is not available in handbrick now you can change the font family if you're dealing with right to left subtitles and all that you can fix that align align right if you want the subtitles go to the right the opic box if you want a box behind your subtitles and we can just actually preview here to see how this looks like this body is going to look like pretty good nothing to complain about and then you'll see the video resolution is picked up from your video uh and for me or for the purposes of this video i actually just leave anything down here as it is i don't touch anything i just let it be now you can change the font which is pretty awesome the other downside or basically the downside i have with this other than the fact that it's not available for mac is that the preview for these options the audio i wish they pushed them a little bit down and then have just a preview and if you want to preview the whole thing then you can expand the preview window that is this uh window that is actually generated here can be just a small window let's say a small window that resizes as i do this that fits somewhere inside here but if you want to maximize you can always see it in the maximum resolution of how the subtitles will look like maybe that's the downside that i find but if all you wanted to do was just binding the your subtitles to a video using a subtitle edit then all you need to do once you're done with this is just click on generate and then it's going to give you the option uh to save your file where you want to save it and the good thing is that without confusing what file you're working on it gives you an extension of banning 1280 by 720 and the encoding of x264 and then you can save as an mp4 matroska or mkv or webm let's just say it's as a as uh as an mp4 and click on save and once you do that it begins uh binding in your subtitles to your video it's pretty fast and unlike let's say davinci resolve i was having a lot of back and forth in subtitle edit it's pretty fast because there's nothing you've done so and also in davinci resolve other than just changing the few settings we changed i'm not really sure that mandates for it to take that long so once it's done you can always navigate to the folder with abandon subtitles if i just double click on it with the reason you can see the subtitle as it looks like with the background and all that so uh as i've mentioned those are just my top three three ways to burn subtitles to a video permanently add subtitles to a video or hardcore subtitles to a video using handbrake davinci resolve or subtitle edit it really depends on what your workflow looks like and probably the system or the platform that you're running on so i hope this video is going to be of value to somebody that is looking to burn subtitles to their video they're on a budget and hopefully uh they can compare and see what works for the different platforms or the efficiency they're looking for my name is david i hope this video has been useful thanks for watching until next time stay safe and never stop learning

Channel: David Mbugua

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Length: 15min 32sec (932 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 18 2022