@pmjv to Linux Video Editing • 13 days ago

How to create/write captions?

@pmjv to Linux Video Editing • 13 days ago

I want to translate a video (manually) and subtitle it. I understand how caption files work and can do it by hand, but as I’ve never done it, it seems daunting with a lot of room for error.

I’m wondering if there is a tool to help with this, or just ask, if anyone has any experience with creating captions and what the best practices are.

Note: I do not want to embed the subtitles into the video, I just want a separate file, either .vtt or .srt

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3•13 days ago
Ok, I’ve never touched BSD (which makes me a little sad). What you want seems out of my depth, but I’ll do what I can to dig up a tutorial (if it exists).

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In my (limited) experience, different software works better for different styles of projects. Here’s my personal list of software that I use for various projects which can all be easily installed from most (all?) package managers:

Kdenlive
ShotCut
Olive

Kdenlive is fantastic for quick edits, though it can do a lot more (beyond the quick edits it is clunky imo). ShotCut can do cool things like motion tractking easily. Olive is fantastic for subtitles, but I absolutely would not recommend it for anything with audio.

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