Solutions for videos and subtitles in Mac OS X

macos video encoding subtitles

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Submerge is what you asking for, you must be doing something wrong.

Go to File, select "Open file" and navigate to the video file you want to add the subtitles to.
Click the "Choose" ikon in the top left side of the main windows and navigte to and select the .srt file
The program now renders the subtitles, which actually means it's converting the text to graphics in order to embed them into the video.
assuming that the size and sync of the font is what you want, klick the export wheel and select your desired format. I use iPhone or AppleTV. Both are h264 and will upload fine to most video services.

Hope this helps. /Ulrik

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Daniel is a technology innovator, currently exploring web3 projects. Former CTO in Brazilian startups such as Pravaler - a fintech that offers accessible student loans - also founder and CTO at Playax - an audience development platform for music professionals based on BigData - he also worked for two years as CTO at Elo7 – the biggest crafts marketplace in Brazil. Experienced working in different programming languages such as Elixir, Ruby, JavaScript and Java, Daniel helped many startups as venture advisor at Monashees Capital and other accelerator programs in Brazil. He is also PhD in Computer Science at University of São Paulo – IME-USP. His PhD research is about Software Startups Ecosystems and Entrepreneurship. Daniel mastered in Computer Science in University of São Paulo in 2009, with the Thesis Patterns for Introducing New Ideas in the Software Industry. Daniel is a Cloud Computing GDE (Google Developer Expert). Daniel started developing software in Brazil when he was 10, on his TK-3000 Basic 2MB RAM computer. He worked as a consultant and software developer in many companies. In 2001, he worked for an Internet startup in Italy. In 2006 he joined Locaweb, the biggest web hosting company in Brazil and worked there for 5 years as developer and tech lead in infrastructure team. Daniel is an active member in the agile and software development communities, speaker in many conferences such as Elixir Brasil, QCON, Agile Brasil, TDC, DevCamp, Agile Trends and others. Studying other Arts beside software development, like Theatre, musical instruments and compositions, dance and writing, he acted in five musical plays and has a poetry book published. Daniel is a Vipassana meditation student and is very interested in topics related to human consciousness.

Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

Daniel Cukier almost 2 years

What is the best way to merge a .srt subtitles file with a Movie, and have it subtitled online. I have a mp4 file and I've already made the subtitles in a .srt file. I've used the SubMerge software, but when I upload the generated mp4 to vimeo, there's no subtitles. It seems that subtitles generated by this software are some kind of meta-data inside the video. Is there any way to RENDER the subtitles whithin the video, so it can go online in any video website?
Daniel Cukier almost 15 years

I did exactly this in this movie: vimeo.com/6094673 - as you can see, when I uploadit to vimeo, the subtitles are not shown on the vimeo flash player. But if you download the video on the same page (right corner, bellow) you'll see the video with subtitles
Daniel Cukier almost 15 years

So, submerge doesn't have the option to create Hard subtitles?
Daniel Cukier almost 15 years

I'm trying to use Handbrake, but it doesn't render subtitles. Is there any special way to do it? There's no field where I can choose the .srt file to be attached.
Daniel Cukier almost 15 years

BTW, iSubtitle 1.4 is bugged in Snow Leopard. When I try to export the movie, it crashes...
Kyle almost 15 years

Submerge should have no problem creating them. In fact it used to only to do in the beginning. I doesn’t remember exactly the settings for this, but you should be able to export it "flattened" or to "render subtitles". If one of those two options works I deserved a thumbs up from you :]
Daniel Cukier almost 15 years

I finally discovered what was happening. If you export in Submerge using .mov format, it will add soft subtitles. Using mp4 export format, it creates the hard format, what I wanted. I've just uploaded the generated video to vimeo and the subtitless are there! THANKS!
Daniel Cukier almost 15 years

I finally discovered what was happening. If you export in Submerge using .mov format, it will add soft subtitles. Using mp4 export format, it creates the hard format, what I wanted. I've just uploaded the generated video to vimeo and the subtitless are there! THANKS!