Adding subtitles to your videos is a great way to expand your audience by
including subtitles in multiple languages. It can also make your videos
easier to follow. In this video I'm going to show you two different ways of how
you can create customized subtitles in your videos with Corel VideoStudio.
Let's say you have a short video and want to create some quick subtitles
throughout the video. First make sure the video you want to subtitle has been
added to your timeline then click on the Title tab and select the title style
you'd like to use. Now drag the title style onto the title track of your
timeline. You can drag the title and position it to where you'd like to add
your subtitles. From here you can click on the Show Options panel or double
click on the text on the timeline to bring up the Title Editor. In this panel
you can customize your subtitles by changing the font type, size and color, or
even choose a preset font style. You can also add a colored text backdrop or
shadow. Now you can select where you'd like to place the subtitles within your
video by clicking on one of these alignment icons or simply drag the text
on the Preview pane to your desired placement. Once you have set up your
desired properties for your subtitles, you might want to use the same format
and style for subtitles in other segments of your video. All you have to
do is right-click on the title on your timeline and select Copy then click
Paste into the library panel. Now you will have the same subtitle template you
have just created ready to use in other segments of your video, so you don't need
to recreate it each time. Alternatively, you can simply drag the title from the
timeline to the title library. But before you do that, from the gallery drop-down
select My Favorites and drag the title in here. Now you simply drag and drop the
pasted template onto the title track of your timeline and double-click to change
your text.
Let's say you have a longer video and want an easy way to subtitle the entire
video without having to do it manually. First make sure the video that you want
to subtitle has been added to your timeline. Next, click on the Subtitle
Editor icon. Here you scan the entire file and it will automatically detect
any voice throughout the video, and offer you an easy way to create subtitles that
match the voice throughout the clip. Under the Voice Detection section you
can select the quality of the voice within your clip. If your video was
created in a studio or an environment without background noise you could
select Best. Otherwise you'd select Fair or Good if there is other background
noise in the video. You can also change the Sensitivity level to help the
scanner detect the voice. I'm going to leave the settings on default as they
work well for me and then click Scan. You can see the scanner has picked up six
different segments where voice is present, that I can go ahead and subtitle.
If you click Play on the Preview pane on the left, you can see that the orange
boxes reflect where there is voice present in the clip and also where the
subtitles will be placed.
You can make slight adjustments to the length of the subtitles,
or where they begin and end, by dragging the edge of the orange
box on the Preview pane. To begin subtitling, click on the Play
button or click Shift + Space to play the selected subtitle segment.
Now you can click on add a new subtitle
and type in your subtitle for that segment.
Continue doing this for all your segments. Once you have finished you can click on
the Text Options icon and change the font size, color and other options for
all of your subtitles. If you do this now, you won't have to manually change them
all later on, once they have been added to your timeline. Click OK. Now an
important note here: if you export your titles to create a .SRT file, when you
import them back in you will lose any of the formatting and colors that you have
selected. They will be white with a black outline. From here you can choose to
export the file as a .SRT or other subtitle file type. You might do this if
you don't want to embed the subtitles into your video, but want the option to
upload a subtitle file to YouTube or other platform with the ability to
enable or disable subtitles. To do this, click on Export Subtitle File and name
and save your file. This is also useful if you want to create subtitle files in
multiple languages. To do this, open your exported .SRT file in Notepad. Here you
can see all the timestamps and segments of your subtitles, and can translate
these into another language. I'm going to replace all of my English
subtitles with Spanish.
I can now save my file as another .SRT file.
From here I can go back to VideoStudio. First I'm going to click OK to add my
English subtitles to my timeline. You can see that they have now all been added to
the title track 1. Now I'm going to go back to the Subtitle Editor and select
Import Subtitle File and import my new Spanish subtitles. You can see that the
timestamps have remained the same, but the subtitles have now changed to my
Spanish equivalent. You can then click OK to add the subtitles to your timeline.
You will see that they have now all been added to the title track. These new
titles will be placed on title track 2. You can either delete the titles in
track 1, or hide the track by clicking this icon. Press Play to preview the
subtitles on your video.
If you wish to make any adjustments, you can drag the text on the timeline or
double-click on the text box to make any edits in the Options panel.
Now you can export your newly subtitled video. If you have found this tutorial on
YouTube while searching for training content, be sure to head on over to the
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