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• SubRip caption files are named with the extension .SRT. This format is supported by most video players and subtitle creation programs. The time format used is hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds, with the milliseconds field precise to three decimal places. The purpose of srt subtitle file is to be used with desired movie file together to display subtitles when you play video file by any player supporting srt subtitles. If your video doesn’t include any subtitles, you can create and add a .srt file to your video.

How to create SRT file:

There are two ways to To create SRT file: , you can either use Aegisub freeware at the DMC or simply use notepad or any text editor.

1. Create SRT file with Aegisub:

1. 1. All DMC video editing stations have Aegisub installed and it looks like this:
      
   2. Open Aegisub, simply enter your caption text alongside a start and finish timecode. The first timecode is a start timecode for this line of text; second timecode is the finish timecode; 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.
      
   3. Use spacebar to play and pause your video with any media player or within Final Cut Pro X while creating SRT file with Aegisub. Try to make the start and end timecode as accurate as possible.
   4. Repeat the step 2 until all the lines are inputted.

   5. Go to File > Export As..., continue to click on Export, and be sure to save as SubRip(*.srt) file type.

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o make .srt format subtitles,

you can follow below steps:

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1. Create SRT with NotePad

   1.  Open Notepad, WordPad or other text editor.
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1. 1. Edit subtitles shown as below:
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2. Notes: SRT consists of four parts, all in text.
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4. a. A number indicating which subtitle it is in the sequence.
5. b. The time that the subtitle should appear on the screen, and then disappear.
6. c. The subtitle itself.
7. d. A blank line indicating the start of a new subtitle.
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   2. Step 2 : Save subtitles to .srt format.
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      2. In Notepad, please click menu File->Save As, change file name to “xxx.srt”, set “Save as type” to “All Files”, and then set “Encoding” to "ANSI" or “UTF-8”.
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   2. Notes:
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   4. 1. Save .srt file as “ANSI” if using English subtitles.
   5. 2. Save .srt file as “UTF-8” if using non-English subtitles.

 Add subtitle in Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/help/faq/managing-your-videos/captions-and-subtitles#what-caption-and-subtitle-file-formats-does-vimeo-support

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