Speaker 1: In this video, I'd like to talk about my top three free ways to permanently add hardcode or burn subtitles into a video or movie. Welcome to this video. My name is David and I hope you're well wherever you are around the world. So I'll walk you through the three tools that I normally use, depending on the scenario, tell you what I like about each and every tool and what I don't like. So let's begin. And for this video, I have a bunch of subtitles here. And I do have a video file corresponding to the subtitles. So let's begin. Tool number one, Handbrake. So Handbrake, and I'll leave all the links in the description below. This is Handbrake from handbrake.fr, pretty good application to permanently add subtitles to your video. So you can just drag and drop your video here, it's going to scan and all that. I love it because it's quick and easy. And if all I wanted to do was burn subtitles, I just click on subtitles. The one thing that I don't like is that they change the option to import the subtitle, you cannot see the tab here nowadays, you need to click on tracks, import subtitle, and then you select the subtitle that you want to permanently burn to the video. The other thing I don't like about Handbrake is that you cannot preview what the subtitle will look like before you burn it. And also, you cannot select a font if you wanted to choose a font. So let's say we just choose any of this, just click on that, open and then ensure that since we want to burn it to the video, click on this burn. Something else that you might need to do is you might need to do the constant bitrate. So if you do the average, ensure you have the two pass encoding. So let's say that's all we wanted to do, we have our video here. And then we have our subtitles here. And I believe also something else I don't really like about this is that you don't see the source file name. So for example, it's it says here language English, but I'm not so sure the subtitle I selected is in English. So that's a problem. But I love the fact that you have character encoding here, you can choose whatever you want. But it would be easier if we had just a better interface here. So once you're done, just click on start encoding, because Handbrake is one of the best transcoding applications out there. Once you click on that, since it's a one pass, depending on the strength of your laptop, or your system, this is going to be an easy and peasy thing. I also love the fact that Handbrake is available for multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Mac, so everybody's catered for. So those are just some of the few things pretty fast to burn this. The only problem or the issue that we have is that there's no flexibility. So it's already done. The one thing that you can see is that from the activity log, you can always go down and see what font was used, you can actually check out and see, I believe you can see the font that was used somewhere, somewhere, somewhere here. Let's see. It should be somewhere here. But what I'm trying to say is that you can see what type of okay, language English, it is C, burn is true, range, not really sure, but I believe it should be somewhere here. You can see what font was actually used. But the downside is that you cannot select your own font, you cannot preview before you start burning. You can also not see the name of the subtitle that you just input here, because you may forget what language it is in. And that might be important if you want to set the character encoding. That's tool number one, because it's super fast. And it's a quick and scrappy way to actually do this. So that's Handbrake. Let's go to tool number two. Tool number two, I'll go for DaVinci Resolve. And the reason why I'm going for DaVinci Resolve as well is that it's because it's available for Windows, Linux and Mac. And basically, you can work with it, you'll be able to see the type of font. So we can just create a new project sample for YouTube. Just click on Create. And then what we might need to do here is we might need to drag in our files. Let's just drag in this one. It's the video and Arabic subtitle. Don't change. So what we can do is we can just create a new timeline using selected clips, just create and then go to the Edit page. So if you cannot see this section, if this is what is selected, you need to show the media pool. And this is our video or basically our timeline. So this is our subtitle. All you need to do is just drag and drop it inside here. And since this is already timed, basically, you just need to work with what we have. Let's just drag and drop it back again. So we have it inside here, if I click on it, probably you may think nothing has happened. Now in DaVinci Resolve, since Arabic subtitles are read and written or are written and read from right to left, then you need to actually use the stroke. So you go to the style on this side, click on style, and then just nudge the stroke to the beginning or basically just bring it to zero. Once you bring it to zero, you'll be able to see the subtitles. If it's anything above there, you will not see the subtitles, although they are there. So let's bring it to zero. And if I look at this one, I know the full stops are somewhere here. The other good thing with DaVinci Resolve is that you can set a background. Let's say we add a background there. And then if we scroll down, we can override sizing. But since the recent update, this subtitle actually auto resizes based on your subtitles or the way they are. So it's good as it is. You can also go for something let's say, we want to change the style for this, you can actually undo that for this one. And then let's say you change the position to somewhere like there, and then the y axis to somewhere like there. So you've only affected this one subtitle block, but when you come back to the others, it's pretty awesome. So if you're looking for something that will offer you more flexibility, DaVinci Resolve is one of the other free ways you can actually ban subtitles to your video. And it allows you the placement, the backgrounds, especially for the styles. And you can do whatever you want based on this. So the downside might be that it might be a little bit heavy for your system. But I think that if you're looking for some of the few customizations that we've worked with, and you're working on a workflow that involves DaVinci Resolve, then this is something that you can consider. And once you're satisfied with your selections or your edits and all that, if you want to ban the subtitles to the video, just click on Deliver. And once you click on that, always remember to title your video, let's call it Banding Subtitles in DaVinci Resolve. And then the one thing that is important and you may forget is to ensure that the subtitle settings, click on this settings down here. And then there's an option to check export subtitle. It's not as a separate file, but remember to do the ban into video. You can also embed the captions as a sidecar where if you're playing the video on let's say an application like VLC, you can turn the subtitles on and off. But we want the ban into video. And that is what we want. You can always render to queue and then work with that once everything is done. So just add to render queue, just click on Save. So here we go. If you're satisfied with all this, if you're just done with that, just click on render all if that is all you wanted to do. So this is the time remaining. And you can see in real time, the render process happening inside DaVinci Resolve. But basically, from the two options we've already looked at, handbrake is quick and easy. With DaVinci Resolve, you may need to do some few adjustments. And the reason why you may need to use DaVinci Resolve is if you're working on a workflow that you are editing videos in DaVinci Resolve, but you want to add subtitles to the video. So we'll not wait for this to complete. But once it's done, it's going to give us a video with banned in subtitles. Let's move on to the third and final way that I personally use and recommend most of the time. Let's just stop this. So that's DaVinci, we can close that out. And the final way that I always recommend is called subtitle edit. Now, this particular option to use or to ban in subtitles to a video in subtitle edit was updated in I believe, subtitle edit 3.6.3 if I'm not mistaken. And the reason for this is this application is free. It's available for Windows and Linux. Unfortunately for Mac, I don't believe it's available. But one of the things that was lacking from subtitle edit is the option to ban in subtitles. But luckily, the creator of this particular application actually added the option to ban in subtitles. Now, let's just drag and drop our video inside here. So let's just drag and drop our video. Basically, if we do that, it's going to give us that option. Let's open the video from URL. Let's go here, just open video. We have our video here. And then we can just go to file, open keep video. Let's assume we just want to go with any of this. Just click on that. Let's click on open. So basically, let's choose another file. Open keep video. Let's say we go with what? This I believe is Russian. Yes, that's Russian. So something of that sort. Now, this is pretty awesome because one of the things that was lacking is the option to ban in subtitles into the video. A couple of things I like about this. The fact that you can change the font, you can change the format of the subtitles, and you can also even preview. So if we go to video, generate video with banned in subtitles, just click on that. If you're using, let's say a SubRip, the format here is a SubRip or SRT subtitle, then you have the option to change the font size, something that is not available in Handbrick. Now, you can change the font family. If you're dealing with right to left, subtitles and all that, you can fix that. Align, align right if you want the subtitles go to the right. The opaque box if you want a box behind your subtitles. And we can just actually preview here to see how this looks like. This is what it's going to look like. Pretty good. Nothing to complain about. And then you'll see the video resolution is picked up from your video. And for me or for the purposes of this video, I actually just leave anything down here as it is. I don't touch anything. I just let it be. Now you can change the font, which is pretty awesome. The other downside or basically the downside I have with this, other than the fact that it's not available for Mac, is that the preview for these options, the audio, I wish they push them a little bit down, and then have just a preview. And if you want to preview the whole thing, then you can expand the preview window. That is this window that is actually generated here can be just a small window. Let's say a small window that resizes as I do this, that fits somewhere inside here. But if you want to maximize, you can always see it in the maximum resolution of how the subtitles will look like. Maybe that's the downside that I find. But if all you wanted to do was just burning your subtitles to a video using a subtitle edit, then all you need to do once you're done with this is just click on generate. And then it's going to give you the option to save your file where you want to save it. And the good thing is that without confusing what file you're working on, it gives you an extension of burning 1280 by 720 and the encoding of x264. And then you can save as an MP4, Matroska or MKV or WebM. Let's just say it's as an MP4 and click on Save. And once you do that, it begins burning in your subtitles to your video. It's pretty fast. And unlike let's say DaVinci Resolve was having a lot of back and forth in subtitle edit, it's pretty fast because there's nothing you've done. So and also in DaVinci Resolve, other than just changing the few settings we changed, I'm not really sure that mandates for it to take that long. So once it's done, you can always navigate to the folder with the burned in subtitles if I just double click on it. You can see the subtitle as it looks like with a background and all that. So as I've mentioned, those are just my top three, three ways to burn subtitles to a video, permanently add subtitles to a video, or hard code subtitles to a video using Handbrake, DaVinci Resolve, or subtitle edit. It really depends on what your workflow looks like, and probably the system or the platform that you're running on. So I hope this video is going to be of value to somebody that is looking to burn subtitles to their video, they're on a budget, and hopefully, they can compare and see what works for the different platforms or the efficiency they're looking for. My name is David, I hope this video has been useful. Thanks for watching. Until next time, stay safe and never stop learning.