How to Add Subtitles to a Downloaded Video

Creating a Subtitle File on Windows

1. 

   Open Start

   

   . Click the Windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

2. 

   Type in Notepad. This will search your computer for the Notepad program.

3. 

   Click notepad. It's at the top of the Start menu. Doing so opens Notepad, which is your computer's default text-editing program.

4. 

   Enter your first subtitle's order. Type in 0, then press ↵ Enter to start a new line.

   1. For your second subtitle, you'll type in 1, the third will use 2, and so on.

5. 

   Create a timestamp for your subtitle's text. Each part of the timestamp should be in HH:MM:SS.TT format, with a beginning and an end separated by spaces and a two-dash arrow as follows: HH:MM:SS.TT --> HH:MM:SS.TT.^[1]

   1. For example, if you wanted to place your first subtitle on the video between 5 and 10 seconds into the video, you'd type in 00:00:05.00 --> 00:00:10.00 here. In some cases it might be required to separate seconds and milliseconds by a comma instead of a period.

6. 

   Press ↵ Enter. This will create a new line, which is where your subtitle's text will go.

7. 

   Enter your subtitle's text. Type in whatever you want your subtitle to say. As long as you don't press ↵ Enter at any point until you're done writing the subtitle, it will all appear on one line.

   1. You can also create a second line of text by pressing ↵ Enter once and then typing in your second line's text.

8. 

   Press ↵ Enter twice. This will place a space between your previous subtitle and the place in which you'll begin your next subtitle.

9. 

   Create the rest of your video's subtitles. Each subtitle will require an order number, a timestamp, at least one subtitle text line, and a blank line between it and the next order number.

10. 

    Click File. It's in the top-left corner of the Notepad window. A drop-down menu will appear.

11. 

    Click Save As…. You'll find this in the File drop-down menu. Doing so opens the Save As window.

12. 

    Enter your video's name. For the subtitle file's name in the "File name" text field, you'll enter the name of the video for which you're creating the subtitles. The name must be identical to the name of the video as it appears on your computer (including case-sensitive information).

    1. For example, if the name of the video as it appears on your computer is "Kermit Has the Moves", you'd type in Kermit Has the Moves here.

13. 

    Click the "Save as type" drop-down box. It's near the bottom of the window. A drop-down menu will appear.

14. 

    Click All Files. You'll see this option in the drop-down menu.

15. 

    Change the file to an SRT file. Type .srt at the end of the file's name.

    1. Using the above example, your SRT file would be named Kermit Has the Moves.srt here.

16. 

    Change the encoding if your subtitles aren't in English. If you aren't using English subtitles, you'll need to do the following:

    1. Click the "Encoding" box in the bottom-right corner of the window.
    2. Click UTF-8 in the drop-down menu.

17. 

    Click Save. It's at the bottom of the window. This will save your SRT file in your preferred location. Now that you've created the subtitle file, you'll need to add it to your video.