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I'm looking for a gratis Windows program that can help me create and "embed" subtitles to a movie.

Unlike this question, I'm looking for something that adds the subtitle text to the video frames itself, instead of "embedding" the subtitle in the file along with the audio/video codecs.

I'm also open to using multiple programs, if it's necessary.

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  • Are you asking for voice recognition, then embed the subtitles? Or do you want to type them in yourself?
    – Mawg
    Commented Sep 11, 2017 at 8:10
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    @Mawg I want to type them in.
    – user2602
    Commented Sep 11, 2017 at 8:12
  • Then, please see softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/713/… Should I post that as an answer, or close your question as dupe? NVM, see my alternate answer below :-)
    – Mawg
    Commented Sep 11, 2017 at 8:26
  • I think the term is burning subtitles into the video. mplayer can certainly do it from a subtitle stream in a broadcast mpeg2 dvb stream from UK Freeview transmissions. It's at least 7 years since i did this and i can't remember the command.
    – northern-bradley
    Commented Mar 14, 2018 at 20:08

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Subtitle files are generally external to the video, although some can be burned directly onto the graphic video display.

For external subtitles, take a look at Subtitle Edit-

Subtitle Edit is a free (open source) editor for video subtitles - a subtitle editor :)

With SE you can easily adjust a subtitle if it is out of sync with the video in several different ways. You can also use SE for making new subtitles from scratch (do use the time-line/waveform/spectrogram) or translating subtitles.

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Subtitle Edit can read, write, and convert between more than 200 subtitle formats,

There are so many features that I won't list them here for running out of pixels (won't someone please think of the pixels??!!). Check out the site and be impressed.

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    This seems like a very nice tool, but can it render the subtitle text into the video frames themselves (as opposed to bundling the subtitles with the audio/video codecs in the movie container)?
    – user2602
    Commented Sep 11, 2017 at 9:19
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MoviePy can do exactly what you need from Python when you first run it it will install FFMPEG for you so needs to be connected to the internet. You will also need IamgeMagick installed as per the instructions here.

You can generate the subtitles from a file as shown here.

All of the software mentioned is Free, Gratis & Open Source.

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