You may notice some texts appear at the bottom of the video screen while watching some movies, videos or games. We all know how it helps us to understand films or videos published in any other language that we are not familiar with. These texts are called Subtitles. Subtitles are texts of the screenplay of the dialog or commentary in films and videos. Usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. Subtitles help us to understand new languages and also help us to follow a difficult to follow type dialogue. Now there are sites that offer subtitle track for movies that help us to experience movies from another part of the world. Do you want to add subtitles to your video to get more audience to your videos? Subtitle Maker is an application that creates subtitles automatically without the need for scripts. Here we are going to check some tools to create subtitles for your videos free.
AHD Subtitles Maker
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/ahdsubtitles/)
AHD Subtitles Maker is the first application that I suggest to create subtitles for your video. It has the ability to generate and show waveForm of loaded media to line subtitles perfectly with media audio. You can translate subtitles using the Google Translate service. The auto-detect encoding feature in AHD helps us to choose the right encoding for importing and exporting. It can download or upload subtitle files directly into the internet using the AHD Subtitles Downloader tool. We can synchronize subtitle timings using the synchronization tool inside the program or using the stand-alone program Synchronization Tool.
Youtube Studio
(https://studio.youtube.com)
As I said earlier, subtitles and closed captions open up our content to a larger audience. It is really helpful for deaf or hard of hearing viewers. You can publish your videos to those who speak languages other than yours. To add subtitles go to Youtube Video Manager by clicking your account in the top right, Creator Studio > Video Manager > Videos. Next to the video you want to add captions or subtitles to, click the drop-down menu next to the Edit button. Select Subtitles or CC. Click the Add new subtitles or CC button.
Subtitle Edit
(https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit/)
Subtitle Edit is a free and open-source editor for creating video subtitles. You can easily visually sync and adjust a subtitle like a start or an end position and speed. We can do auto Translation via Google translate. If you want to edit subtitles online, use subtitle edit online.
Aegisub
(http://www.aegisub.org/)
Aegisub is a free open source tool for creating and modifying subtitles. Aegisub has built-in tools for styling subtitles and a built-in real-time video preview to see the results online.
Subtitle Workshop
(http://subworkshop.sourceforge.net/ )
Subtitle Workshop is another free application for creating, editing, and converting text-based subtitle files. It helps to create, open, edit, and save over 60 subtitle formats through the Subtitle API library, as well as saving subtitles in a custom user-defined file format.
