As many of you may know from my last post, yeah a long time ago, I like anime a lot.  One thing that was always interesting to me was how fansubbers did subtitles.  Well the other day I actually spent about 20 or 30 minutes and figured out how to do basic subtitles.

What I learned was softsubs. Basically an external file (*.srt) that you add your subtitles to and load them up when you play the raw video with no subtitles.  The site I learned off of was from a post on afterdawn website.  They are a great resource when it comes to audio video stuff. Anyway the directions are fairly simple.

1) Get video file.
2) Create a new textfile in that folder. I prefer to call it the video name with srt at the end. so (videoname.srt)
3) Add special codes and text
4) watch video and load the srt file.

Step 3 is what is the most difficult and it really isn't difficult at all. To do it all you need is the start frame and end frame of when you want the text to appear.  Followed by the text.

{1}{200}Hello World How are you Today

That would display "Hello World How are you Today" from frame 1 to 200 then stop displaying it.  You can also change colors and do bold, italic, and underline.

{201}{300}{y:i}I'm Italic
{301}{400}{y:b}I'm bold
{401}{500}{y:u}I'm underlined

You can also do colors too. So something like:

{501}{600}{c:$333333}I'm A different color.

Finally you can even do different fonts too.

{601}{700}{f:Arial}I'm A different font.

So if you wanted to copy paste into a text file all of the above to test it. It would look something like:

{1}{200}Hello World How are you Today
{201}{300}{y:i}I'm Italic
{301}{400}{y:b}I'm bold
{401}{500}{y:u}I'm underlined
{501}{600}{c:$333333}I'm A different color.
{601}{700}{f:Arial}I'm A different font.
{701}{800}{y:i}{c:$333333}I'm several combined into 1

After you have that done you are ready to view them. I personally use windows media player classic and the best way to use them, once the video is loaded, is:

File->load subtitles->(Browse to subtitles and open)

Here are some pictures

 

If you have wanted to do basic Subtitles this gives you a good start.  I am going to look up how to do embeded subtitles next and will post on that, hopefully soon.