Software for subtitling video

[David Goldfarb]

Thanks to all who replied on and off list to my query, and to those
who forwarded it to others who had good suggestions!--David

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David A. Goldfarb
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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Richard Robin <rrobin at gwu.edu> wrote:
> My suggestion is to google "srt captions". SRT files are simple text files
> that allow you to caption non-invasively. (You don't actually change the
> video file.) But you do have to sit down and carefully time out the
> captions. The timings are a pain. The rest is easy.
>
> Rich Robin
>
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:42 PM, David Goldfarb <davidagoldfarb at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Can anyone recommend Windows video editing software that has a
>> convenient method of adding subtitles?  I have an old version of
>> Pinnacle video editing software, which would allow me to do this by
>> making transparent slides with opaque text in JPEG format in an image
>> editing program like Photoshop and superimposing those slides on the
>> video, but it seems there must be an easier way by now, where I could
>> just type a text caption in the video editing program and insert it at
>> the relevant spot.  Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>
>>
>> David A. Goldfarb
>> http://www.davidagoldfarb.com
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