Maybe it's just me,
but this new
DaVinci Resolve
18.5 beta is one of
the most exciting
ones that they've
put out in a while.
And while there are
a bunch of new
exciting upgrades
in it, the one that
really stands out
to me is the new
automatic
subtitle feature.
And I'm not just
saying that because
I've paid thousands
of dollars for
professional
subtitles for my
videos over the
past couple of
years and now it's
completely free.
I'm also saying it
because for short
form vertical
content, having
captions on screen
is super important
and now it's
super easy.
So without further
ado, secure the cup
and I'll show you
how to do subtitles
on your project.
Okay, so we're here
in DaVinci Resolve.
I've got a project
that I'm already
done and all we're
going to do is add
subtitles to it.
Now, right now I'm
in the beta
version, the public
beta of DaVinci
Resolve
Studio 18.5.
So if you're
watching this right
when I put out the
video, you do have
access to the
public beta.
I'll leave a link
down in the
description if you
want to go check
that out.
But fair warning,
it is a beta.
So there are some
bugs and that kind
of stuff going on.
Don't use this on
anything that it is
super imperative
that it doesn't ruin.
But going back to
the project, this
is a review for the
Sony ZV-E1.
And what I want to
do is add subtitles
to the entire thing
so that I can then
upload those
to YouTube.
And the best part
is just how
easy this is.
We've got three
different tracks of
dialogue.
So A1, A2, and A3
are two dialogue
tracks and a little
voiceover track
going on there.
So there's lots of
different dialogue.
All we're going to
do is go up to
Timeline and we're
going to go Create
Subtitles
from Audio.
And as long as
we're selected on
this timeline, when
we click that, it
should work great.
A little dialogue
box pops up that
allows us to choose
the language.
In my specific
case, it only
allows me to choose
English for now.
We've got a couple
of different
options for
capturing presets.
We're just going to
leave this on
subtitle default
and then the max
characters per line
if you want to
limit how many
characters can be
on each line as
it's creating the
subtitle.
Now we just have to
wait a little bit.
we're looking at
probably less than
a minute for this
12-minute
long video.
So I'll just speed
up this part so you
don't have to watch
through it.
So now it's done
analyzing.
And as you can see,
it popped up with
this new track
called Subtitle 1.
There are 433
different
clips on it.
And if we zoom in
here, you can see
each of these is a
little subtitle.
little subtitle. Now on the screen,
we can see as well.
So if we pick a
part here and watch
through for a
beginner.
So how do you know
if the ZVE1 is the
right
camera for you?
Well, first, so on
that short section,
it looks like it's
done a pretty darn
good job.
It found where that
sentence was.
It put a question
mark at the
end of it.
It's got commas in
the next sentence.
It's kind of crazy
how good of a
job it does.
So the next step in
this would be to go
through and check
to make sure that
it didn't screw
up anywhere.
Sometimes it can
mishear things.
So I would just go
back to the start
of my video and
then I would just
watch it through
all the way and
make sure that
everything was right.
And an extra tip
for you, if you hit
L a couple of
times, it'll start
speeding up the
playback.
So if you want to
try and get through
it a little bit
quicker, then you
can totally do
that. Does it seem to
have a love-hate
relationship with the idea
of the ZVE1?
And the question
is, what? So there's like a
funny little thing
here where for some
reason it added a
little gap.
So we might want to
fix that.
One thing that kind
of blows me away is
the fact that when
I said Sony A7R5,
it knew to
make it a lowercase
A7, uppercase R,
and then the Roman
numeral for five.
That's very
specific.
So there's
something really
awesome going on in
the
background there.
Now I'm nine
minutes into this
video and it has
been
flawless so far.
But if you do find
something that you
want to fix up, for
example, I've got
this part
where it says 16 to
35 and I would
rather it have a
16-35 than the word
two in there.
All we need to do
is make sure that
we open up our
inspector. And if we're
clicked on
something like a
video clip, it's
going to show us
the inspector
for that.
But if we click on
one of our
captions, it's
going to open up
the caption
inspector. So I can just go
in, delete the word
two, add a little
dash in there, and
we are good
to go.
And you can click
in here as well.
So if you see
anything on one of
your captions here,
they're all
numbered.
You can just
click on it.
It'll move the
cursor to that
point and you can
change whatever you
need to change in
there. So now I've gone
through the entire
video and made sure
that all the
captions
were correct
and it was insane
how spot on
they were.
And so now the
question is, how do
we actually
use those?
How do we get those
subtitles where
they need to be?
So for a YouTube
video, I don't
actually want the
subtitles to
be on there.
So what I need is
to get a subtitle
file that I can
then give to
YouTube so
that people
can turn them on
and off as
they want.
So all we're going
to do here is I'm
going to go up to
file, I'm going to
go to export,
and I'm going to
choose subtitle.
It's saving an SRT
file, which is a
standard
subtitle file.
And then if we
want, we can
actually hide these
by disabling our
subtitle track.
Once I've got my
video uploaded to
YouTube, all I have
to do is go into my
YouTube studio,
use subtitles,
upload file with
timing, and hit
continue. Then I go find that
file and I
hit open.
The other thing
that I like to use
subtitles for is
actually putting
the captions on the
screen for things
like short form
content where
people watch
without the
sound on a
lot of the time.
So for example,
I've got this one
Instagram reel that
I posted where I
just babbling
the whole time and
I want to create
subtitles. So we're going to
go through the
same process.
Timeline, create
subtitles from
audio, this time
because it's
vertical, it
automatically
changed it to 18
characters per
line, which is nice.
So again, I go
through and make
sure that
everything is
correct, but this
time I want
to actually make
sure that it looks
good on the screen.
So what we're going
to do is go back to
our captions
inspector.
So we're going to
click on
any of these.
And right now
they're kind of all
linked together on
the track.
So if we click over
here on track, we
now have the
ability to go in
and change a bunch
of things about the
font and the
background and the stroke.
For example, up
here at the top,
let's say I want to
change the
font to Futura.
I want to change
the size, make it a
little bit smaller.
We can center it,
maybe move it up a
little bit.
I'm going to change
the color to black,
get rid of the
stroke by changing
the size of
the stroke
down to zero.
We could add a drop
shadow if we want,
but in this case,
what I want to do
is add a background
and then change
that background
color to this nice
yellow, crank the
opacity up.
So now when we
watch this through,
I'm starting to
think that maybe
I'm cursed.
So now we've got
good looking
captions on the
screen, but they're
all
exactly the same.
What if I wanted to
just change one to
kind of EPHASIZE it?
Let's say we wanted
to take I'm
cursed here.
I'm going to go
back to the caption
inspector, choose
customize caption,
and it's kept
everything that I had on the
track for now, but
we can customize
just bits and
pieces of it.
So if I customize
the size and make
it bigger, or if I
want to change the
font a little bit.
So now we've got
our regular font
for the rest of the
track, and that one
is just customized
for that moment.
I'm starting to
think that maybe
I'm cursed.
Story time.
Recently, now there
are definitely some
limits here.
You don't have the
same kind of
control that you
have over things
like fusion titles.
You can't animate
them in or out.
Unfortunately,
maybe that's
something that
they'll add
in the future.
But now that we've
got them looking
decent on screen,
how do we export
them with our
video? So we're going to
go to our deliver
page and I'm going
to choose my
preset for 1080
vertical.
And then down at
the bottom here,
there's a dropdown
called subtitle
settings.
If we want to
export that
subtitle, we need
to make sure this
is clicked.
Now we can choose
as a separate file,
which will actually
export the
SRT file that we
did before, but at
the same time as
we're exporting the
actual
video itself.
Then we can do it
as embedded
captions.
So some programs
will be able to
read embedded
captions built into
the video file.
And then this third
option here is what
we actually want
for this video.
It's called burn
into video, which
basically means
that it's going to
make that part of
the video
file itself.
So we're actually
going to see that
yellow background
with the black text
on top of it
in that
final video.
And then all we do
is hit add to
render queue and
render it and we're
good to go.
So now you know how
to automatically
make subtitles for
your videos
and how you can
do a bunch of
different things
with them in
DaVinci resolve
version 18.5.
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