How to Add Subtitles to DVD

How to Add Subtitles to DVD? There would be no more frustrating things than watching a new DVD movie without subtitles. The subtitles are accessory appliances which can help one to understand the whole story more clearly. How interesting it would be to create and add sub to the new DVD movies by yourself! The most bothering question for non-professionals is that how to produce and add the subtitles? Making and adding subtitles to DVD can be both easily achieved with the help of some featured software. Here we are going to share you the easy ways to add sub to DVD movies or videos. Add Subtitles to DVD Step 1: Download or Create Subtitles To add subtitles to a commercial or homemade DVD, you should first download the subtitle files online or make them by yourself with some specific programs. Here we use the "Subtitle Workshop". With it, you just need open the video file and press the "Insert" key to add blank lines in the subtitle area. Then you just need marked each line with subtitle text. Here you can copy and paste the text from a text document. After that, you can set the start and end time of each line with the Alt + C and Alt + V and save the created subtitles as Subrip format text file. Add Subtitles to DVD Step 2: Combined Subtitles with DVD Videos There are two options to combine the subtitles with the DVD video. One is to use the MKVtoolnix to package the video file together with subtitles into a MKV file. The subtitles still feature like plug-ins, so you can set the size of subtitles and close the caption on the player during playing. The following picture just shows you how to add subtitles to videos in the VLC media player.

Another option is to embed the subtitles into the video when using the Format Factory for the video converting. You can specify subtitle file name, subtitle size during the conversion. Once the video conversion is finished, you can find that the subtitles have been embedded into the video. Tips: To embed subtitles to DVD, you should first rip DVD to common video files with a DVD ripping software. And then refer to the steps above to embed the subtitles to the ripped video files. Then you can directly watch the embedded videos on your computer. If you want to burn them to DVD for playback on DVD players, you may need the assistance of a powerful DVD Burner software.

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