Questions tagged [closed-captions]
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How to create automatic subtitles?
You know how Youtube creates "automatic" subtitles based on the sound on a video? (sound-to-text)
I have an MP4 file on my computer. How do I create "automatic" subtitles based on the video's sound, ...
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Adding subtitles to a movie
I am looking for a tool (for Windows), that I can use to add subtitles to a movie. The movie is a movie that I made myself, and obviously the subtitles contains the translation to a different language....
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Free alternative to SubtitlesApp for Windows
SubtitlesApp recently made a jerk move by transforming a free app on a paid app, while asking users to upgrade to version 3 (which is paid) and not providing the old 2 version for download (and for ...
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Adding closed captions to online videos
I am looking for a program/browser extension that can generate closed captions on any video I watch online.
I like to watch a lot of YouTube tutorials, breaking news, and general information videos ...
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Overlay subtitles over Web videos
I’m looking for a way to overlay subtitles when watching a video on the Web.
Features:
It should work for every kind of video, no matter which player is used (Flash, HTML5 video, …).
It should also ...
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Video player makes displayed subtitles select-able as text
I'm looking for a video player that makes displayed subtitles select-able.
If you don't understand what I mean, this is an illustrative example of exactly what I need:
Let's consider that I'm ...
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Program that can extract subtitles from hard-subbed videos?
I am looking for a program that can extract/create subtitles from a video that has been hard-subbed rather than a video that has been soft-subbed where it is rather quite easy to extract these ...
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Synchronizing translated subtitles
I have a friend who does not understand English, and he wants to watch 24. I downloaded it for him, but while the English subtitles are perfect, some Arabic subtitles are not synchronized correctly.
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Media player with mouse-selectable subtitles (for copy and paste)
Could you help me to find a free media player for Windows which allows to select and copy a part of subtitles during watching a video?
Something like this:
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DVD burner that support DVD players
I want to burn the entire 24 seasons for a friend on DVDs + Arabic subtitles so he can watch them on his DVD player.
Requirements are simple:
Free, not necessarily open source
Supports all kind of ...
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Subtitler that showing audio waveform
I'm looking for a subtitler (like Media Subtitler or Subtitle Workshop) but one that will shows the audio waveform.
The audio waveform should be able to help me align the start/end positions of a ...
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Subtitle program to synchronize the subtitle with video
A lot of times when I search over the internet for a subtitle to a movie, I get many results, but sometimes the subtitle I get isn't suitable to the movie format.
For example: movie in Blu-ray and ...
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Software that joins multiple subtitle files that can be synced with video after joining
I want to join multiple subtitle files into a single file. The timecode of the 2nd subtitle must continue from the 1st subtitle file's timecode and so on.
I've tried Easy Subtitle Joiner, but when I ...
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Automatic subtitle syncronization
I have subtitles without timing and I need to automatically sync them to a video.
After some searching, I found
http://www.jaivox.com/wordalign.html
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/2014/07/long-...
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Offline Video Subtitle creator for Windows?
I'm looking for a free offline Subtitle creator program that allows me to create & edit subtitles for my screen recorded videos from scratch. Any suggestions of a product that's free (like in "...
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Program to create and “embed” subtitles to a movie
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 ...
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Changing the position of the subtitle by dragging
Is there any video player app which allow to drag the subtitle to a news position? Ideally it may allow to add more than one subtitle to screen.
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Mac OS or iOS video player with current subtitle dictionary lookup capabilities
Daum PotPlayer for Windows has this feature - while watching a soft-subtitled video, you can click on any word, and browser page with this word in an online dictionary will open.
I'm looking for ...
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Beautiful visualization of narrated sentences (presentation video)
I've written a long list of soothing thoughts that I want to make into a video that will help my clients relax and recenter in a meditative way.
I could make a barebones PowerPoint presentation that ...
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Software that gives closed captioning to YouTube Videos
I make YouTube videos and I want to add closed captioning to my videos. But I'm not a transcriber and I can't afford to hire one. The options for such software overwhelms me. I need software that ...
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MPC-HC's Subresync equivalent for macOS?
Is there an equivalent of MPC-HC's subresync feature for macOS?
Here is an example of the feature.
If the subtitles are off on timing, I can pause just before the beginning of a line, select the ...
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Software or a search engine which can find a list of videos that contain a list of specific words in its subtitle
Suppose I want to find a list of videos which contain a list of specific words in its subtitle.
For example, let's say that I have a list of 1,000 words that I want to search for. I need a software ...
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Closed Captions: Is there any software to comapre .bdf fonts vs .ttf fonts?
Closed Captions:
In one of the digital multimedia device bdf fonts files were used for displaying closed cations. I have replaced the bdf fonts with ttf fonts. Closed captions are displaying but now ...
