Adding subtitles to a video makes the video accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and provides the opportunity to translate your video into any language. If you start your video project in Final Cut Pro X here at the DMC, you can follow the steps below to add subtitle to your video with ease.
Step I: Create SRT file with Aegisub
- All DMC video editing stations have Aegisub installed and it looks like this:
- Open Aegisub, simply enter your caption text alongside a start and finish timecode. The first timecode is a start timecode; second timecode is the finish timecode for this line of text; the third timecode is the line duration. You can adjust the timecode according to your video. Press Enter to add this line to the sequence window below.
- Use spacebar to play and pause your video within Final Cut Pro X or with any other media player while you are creating SRT file with Aegisub. Try to make the start and end timecode as accurate as possible.
- Repeat the step 2 until all the lines are createdinputted.
- Go to File > Export As..., continue to click on Export, and be sure to save as SubRip(*.srt) file type.
- Click File > Export as... and make sure to add .srt as the file extension.