If you study languages such as French, German, Japanese, then for sure you may encounter a situation where it is either impossible to read subtitles at all, or some letters are distorted. How to solve this problem?
How to fix subtitle encoding?
In any case, before trying to watch a movie with downloaded subtitles, you need to check in what encoding they are saved. There are 2 ways to do this:
In the viewer menu Lister from above select "Options" and make sure that the encoding of the subtitles is "text only": there is a check mark next to "Text only". In this case:
- for Western European languages, you will see the timing of subtitles and lines of foreign text, where the letters with diacritics are replaced by the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet. Here are screenshots for French subtitles in SubRip ("srt" extension), SubStation Alpha ("ssa" extension), MicroDVD
- for Japanese and Chinese, you will see subtitle timing and an incomprehensible character set instead of text. Here are screenshots for Japanese subtitles in SubRip ("srt" extension), SubStation Alpha ("ssa" extension), MicroDVD ("sub" extension, not to be confused with graphic format subtitles).
- for Russian you will see subtitle timing and Russian text. Here are screenshots for SubRip ("srt" extension), SubStation Alpha ("ssa" extension), MicroDVD ("sub" extension, not to be confused with graphic format subtitles).
If the subtitle encoding is "text only", then you can go to.
However, it may turn out that the subtitle encoding is one of the Unicode ones, in this case in the viewer Lister a checkmark in the "Options" section of the menu will be next to "Unicode" or "UTF-8". If so, the subtitles should be resave in text-only format using a good text editor (see below).
2) using a good text editor ( Microsoft Word, Openoffice).
In the case of the editor Microsoft Word usually there are no problems - when opening a file most often Word itself will offer you the encoding in which the subtitle file is saved. For example, for subtitles in Russian it will most likely be "Cyrillic (Windows)", for subtitles in German or, for example, French - most likely "Western European (Windows)", for Japanese - "Japanese (Shift-JIS)" or "Unicode (UTF-8)" etc. So, if when opening a file Word offers you the "desired" encoding (see) and after opening the file, the text is displayed without errors (for Western European languages, all diacritics are displayed correctly, for hieroglyphic languages you see the correct text, and for Cyrillic - normal Russian text), then you should change nothing in the subtitle file is not needed, its encoding is correct, you can go to. If, when opening a file Word offers you one of the Unicode encodings, then you need to open the file, make sure that the foreign text is displayed without errors, and then select from the menu "File" - "Save as ..." - "text format txt" and select "the desired" manual encoding (see). Because Word when saving the file, it will give it the extension "txt", then you need to manually change the file extension to the same as the original file format ("srt" for the SubRip format, "ssa" for the SubStation Alpha format, "sub" for the format MicroDVD). You can easily change the file extension using the file manager Total commander... You can also change the file extension in the explorer Windows... To do this, you need to configure Windows so that when viewing folders, file extensions are displayed - go to "control panel" - "folder properties" - "view" tab - uncheck the option "hide extension of registered file types" (Note: sometimes Word buggy - when opening a file, it offers you the wrong encoding - the text is displayed with errors, or offers the correct encoding, but opens the file anyway with errors. In this case, be guided by the preview window - select different encodings until you find the one in which the foreign text in the preview window is displayed without errors).
Watching a movie with subtitles in the desired encoding
So let's start watching - copy the subtitle file to the folder with the movie (in this case, the name of both files must match - see). There are 2 options to make foreign text displayed in subtitles without errors:
1) Preferred option. In codec Vobsub(it is part of the collection of codecs Combined Community Codec Pack, this collection of codecs must be installed on your computer) you need to select the encoding of the subtitle language. To do this, start the movie, and a green arrow appears at the bottom right (next to the Windows clock). Right-click on it and select "DirectVobSub (auto-loading version)". Click on the button with the font used under the text "Text Settings". In the window that appears, click on the same button under the "Font" label. At the bottom right, select the desired region: Western- for Western European languages, Cyrillic- for Russian, Japanese- for Japanese. In the case of Japanese, make sure the "Font" selected includes Japanese characters and Kana - the "Sample" box should display the letters "A" written in hiragana and katakana. Click "Ok".
2) Alternative option. If you know that all your subtitles, for example, in French are saved in the encoding "Western European (Windows)", then you can set French as the default language for programs that do not support unicode (Start "-" Control Panel "- "Regional and Language Options", "Advanced" tab). In this case, you do not need to change the encoding in the codec Vobsub after starting the movie.
Everyone loves to watch movies and it doesn't matter who speaks what language. The problem is that most projects do not have enough budget to translate the film into several languages, which means that depending on the country of residence, you may simply not understand the film itself. If you want to add subtitles to your favorite movie or write them yourself, know that translating a movie is not that difficult, but it will take time and patience.
This article will walk you through the process of adding subtitles to a movie that doesn't have them. If you would like to know how to turn on subtitles while watching a movie, click here.
Steps
How to download subtitles
- While watching a movie on a DVD player, try clicking the Title or Subtitle buttons.
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Find the movie to which you want to add subtitles and place it in a separate folder. Find the movie folder or the movie itself in Finder or Windows Explorer. Most likely, the movie will have a .mov, .avi, or .mp4 extension. Fortunately, you don't have to modify the movie file itself, but you need to find it and associate it with the subtitle file. Subtitle files usually have the extension .SRT, and are a set of phrases and timestamps during which certain phrases should appear in the movie.
Search for "[movie name] subtitles in [your language]" to find a suitable file. Open your favorite search engine and find subtitles in your language. For example, if you need Russian subtitles for the movie "X-Men: First Class", search for "X-Men: First Class Subtitles in Russian" (without quotes). The first link will probably work for you, since the subtitle files are quite small and unlikely to contain viruses.
Find the subtitles you want and download the .SRT file. Download the .SRT file from sites such as Subscene, MovieSubtitles, or YiFiSubtitles. Do not click on pop-up windows and download only files with the extension .SRT or.SUB. If you think that the site is not reliable, close it and go to another one.
Rename the subtitle file so that it is identical to the movie file. If the movie file is named "BEST Movie.AVI", the subtitle file should be named "BEST Movie.SRT". Find the subtitle file where you saved it (usually the Downloads folder) and rename it. The .SRT file must be named the same as the movie file.
Paste the .SRT file into the movie folder. Create a new, separate folder for your movie if you haven't already. Place the .SRT file in the same folder as the movie. For most video players, this will be enough to link the files.
- VLC is the simplest free player that supports most of the formats.
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Insert the .SRT file into the movie you upload to YouTube. To do this, click on the "Subtitles" button while downloading the video. Then click on "Add new subtitles" and select the file with the extension .SRT. Make sure to select "Subtitles" and not "Translation". Press the CC button while watching a video to turn on subtitles.
How to create subtitles (three ways)
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Understand the purpose of subtitling. Subtitles are translations of text, and anyone who has ever used Google Translate will tell you that translations are more art than science. When translating a scene, you need to take into account several points:
You can effectively add subtitles using the subtitle site. Sites such as DotSub, Amara and Universal Subtitler allow you to watch and subtitle the movie at the same time. As a result, you will have a .SRT file with subtitles for the movie. Although the process for creating subtitles is different on each site, they all follow a similar format:
Print your own subtitles in Notepad. Subtitles can be printed manually, although with the program it will be much faster. To do this, open any text editor like Notepad (Window) or TextEdit (Mac), and choose the appropriate format for the subtitles. Before you start, click Save As and name the file MovieName.SRT. Then specify the encoding "ANSI" for English subtitles and "UTF-8" for the rest. Print subtitles.
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You can add subtitles to a movie only on a computer. If there are no subtitles in the “Settings” or “Language” menu on the DVD, then you will not be able to add them without additional hardware and software. DVDs are write protected and new subtitles cannot be added to the DVD player. A computer is a completely different matter. On a computer, new subtitles can be inserted into any movie.
Have you ever noticed, when watching movies, the frequently appearing textual analogue of the spoken speech? Such analogs are subtitles. They are used to display translated text or text from the original language of the film. Most media players and media combines have built-in support for subtitles of any level. Some video players are equipped with utilities for working with subtitles (creating or editing).
You will need
- DSRT software.
Instructions
Select any phrase from the subtitle file, then click the "File" menu, select "Video" (keyboard shortcut Alt + V);
Press the "Synchronize" button (this action will make it inactive) or use the Alt + C keyboard shortcut;
Find a piece of video that would match the selected subtitle text, click the "Move" button, then click the "OK" button.
Open the subtitle file in DSRT;
Place the mouse cursor on the first phrase and mark it (keyboard shortcut Ctrl + F2);
Place the mouse cursor on the last phrase and press Ctrl + F2 (phrase label);
Click the "Script" top menu, then select the "Retime" item (hotkey F5);
Enter the shift factor for phrases that have been marked with markers;
Double click on the label, select "Shift", then click "OK";
Click the "Retime" button to complete the shift.
So, you know where to get Russian subtitles, you have a film, and you even learned how to attach titles to a film. But ... For some reason, the credits do not coincide in time with what is happening on the screen. Here's how to adjust the credits to match your version of the movie.1. There are many programs that allow you to change the timing (display time) of subtitles. We will show you how you can do this using the Subtitle Workshop program, which you can get from here.
2. After installing the Subtitle Workshop program, launch it.
3. The program supports multiple languages. Since we are working with Russian subtitles, we will use the Russian interface. Moreover, the translation of the program into Russian was carried out by your humble servant. :) Choose from the menu "Others" the sub-item "Language", which has the option "Russian", which will allow us to communicate with the program in Russian.
This setting only needs to be done once. During the second launch, the program will immediately install the selected language.
4. Now you need to open the subtitle file. Usually, after downloading from the Internet, they are packed using WinRAR or WinZip, so you need to extract them from the archive. Pulled out? Then select the Load Subtitles option from the File menu. Let's take the movie "Shaolin Soccer" as an example.
5. It is likely that you do not know the original language, so adjusting the subtitles for a movie will be a little more difficult than for an American or English movie.
It is necessary to capture the moment when the first phrase is pronounced in the film. In our case - 1 minute 50 seconds.
And the moment when the last phrase is pronounced in the film. In our case - 1 hour 39 minutes 33 seconds.
6. Select the "Align subtitles" option from the "Subtitles" menu. In the window that appears, enter the found time of the first and last phrases of the film.
Press the button "Align". Now the beginning of the first title should coincide with the found time of the first phrase in the film.
7. It remains to save the subtitles. The most widely used formats are MicroDVD and SubRip. The first is tied to the frames in the film, and the second is tied to time. Time-bound subtitles in the form of text are more descriptive, so we will use the second option. Select the option "Save as ..." from the "File" menu. A window will appear with a large selection of possible subtitle formats. Let's find in it "SubRip", on which we will make a double click with the mouse.
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