How Do I Add Subtitles from file to Video

[marjiea1]

I have finished capturing my home videos from VHS to my computer in mpg files using Roxio media import.

 

I have captions that I made with a subtitle program and saved them to an .srt file.

(A text file that contains entries like this:

 

1

00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:13,120

Mike: Nice turn. Good.

 

2

00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,840

Stop. PUT ON THE BRAKES!

 

3

00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,520

Now she's turned around. She went down.

 

4

00:00:55,530 --> 00:00:57,030

Marjie: Uh-oh.

 

5

00:00:57,030 --> 00:00:59,030

Jenny: I'll go.)

 

I want to add the subtitle file (and thus the subtitles) to the mpg files to be able to view my home movies with captions. I understand hardcoding them will make the subtitles always on - that's fine. I don't want to use a media player where I have to specify the srt file (VideoLan and MediaPlayerClassic-HomeCinema will not automatically play the subtitles over a video made with Roxio codecs, even with autoload on, though they will play correctly if I load the video file and then manually load the subtitle file.) I don't want to make a text overlay for each subtitle and find the correct frames to add them onto.

 

I don't need to burn the files to dvd at this time unless that is the only way to add the subtitles.

 

I have Roxio Creator 2010 Special Edition. How do I do this? Is there any way to add subtitles from an external file in VideoWave?

 

-Marjie

[marjiea1]

Uggh. What a pain!

 

I have to run it back through VideoWave (can't get the copy and convert to work - it keeps crashing) to make it into an editable avi file, convert my subtitle files to .ssa and then use VirtualDub to add in the subtitles and compress back to video.

[sknis]

I have finished capturing my home videos from VHS to my computer in mpg files using Roxio media import.

 

I have captions that I made with a subtitle program and saved them to an .srt file.

(A text file that contains entries like this:

 

1

00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:13,120

Mike: Nice turn. Good.

 

2

00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,840

Stop. PUT ON THE BRAKES!

 

3

00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,520

Now she's turned around. She went down.

 

4

00:00:55,530 --> 00:00:57,030

Marjie: Uh-oh.

 

5

00:00:57,030 --> 00:00:59,030

Jenny: I'll go.)

 

I want to add the subtitle file (and thus the subtitles) to the mpg files to be able to view my home movies with captions. I understand hardcoding them will make the subtitles always on - that's fine. I don't want to use a media player where I have to specify the srt file (VideoLan and MediaPlayerClassic-HomeCinema will not automatically play the subtitles over a video made with Roxio codecs, even with autoload on, though they will play correctly if I load the video file and then manually load the subtitle file.) I don't want to make a text overlay for each subtitle and find the correct frames to add them onto.

 

I don't need to burn the files to dvd at this time unless that is the only way to add the subtitles.

 

I have Roxio Creator 2010 Special Edition. How do I do this? Is there any way to add subtitles from an external file in VideoWave?

 

-Marjie

 

This program does not support subtitle files.