How to add Subtitles to Movie – Add srt to avi
No more searching! You are now at the right place! We guarantee you’ll be able to add subtitles to movie after reading this trick. This tutorial will lead you through a few VERY simple steps of adding a subtitle(in the format of srt) to a movie(in the format of avi). Please make sure you Subscribe to Us for more useful tips and interesting tricks!
How to add subtitles to movie or add srt to avi?
- The very first thing you have to do is to make sure that your movie is in avi file extension. If not, you have to convert it to avi file extension by using any of the video converters that support avi conversion.
- Next, search and download the subtitle that match your movie from these famous subtitle sites – www.divxsubtitles.net, subscene.com, www.mysubtitles.com, www.mysubtitles.org and many more.
However, sometimes it is hard to find a suitable subtitle for a less popular movie.
- Alright, you should have a srt file with you right now. SRT is the format of a subtitle text file. You can see the contents of the subtitle with any text editor such as notepad.
- Place it in the same folder as the movie.
- You have to rename the srt file to match the avi file name. Both names must be exactly the same!
For example:
- Alvin-and-the-chipmunks.avi
- Alvin-and-the-chipmunks.srt - Then, you need to download and install VobSub so that your video players learn how to display subtitle while playing a movie.
And that’s it! Your video should display the subtitle if you did the above steps correctly. You’ve just learnt how to add subtitles to movie or add srt to avi! Please make sure you Subscribe to Us for more useful tips and interesting tricks!
Click on this link to learn how to edit or convert subtitle.
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For Mac Users – How to add subtitles to movie:
To view .srt files on a Mac, you need to use a video playing application called VLC. It’s free, and can be downloaded here. Once you’re running VLC, go to preferences and deselect ‘automatically detect subtitle files’. Then choose the subtitle file to be played with the movie using the ‘browse’ button (select both files). It’s not automatic but it works! Enjoy your movies! And thank you for reading this tip, How to add subtitles to movie, add srt to avi, add subtitles to movies, adding subtitles to movies, adding subtitles to movie, adding srt to avi.
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thanks so much for the help
i didn’t know about the same file names but its finally working 
how can i add subtitle if it is not movie, i have avi file of private tutorial which I wish to add subtitle . Instead of adding text manually is there a way for converting voice into text electronically or automatically.
waiting for your favorable reply.
kunal
hi, and thank’s for the advice, i’ve a question: how can i make one archive from 2 .srt, because when the first archive ends, the second doesn’t starts, because they have the same time code, and they’re played one over the other, thanks for your help, from mexico city!!!
Good subtitle site http://www.opensubtitles.org
Very helpful, it works perfectly.
Thank you.
It works! Thank you so much!
Hi, I don’t actually have any pages to add… I just wanted to say thanks for a great tip.
So simple, a 3 year-old could do it.
Best wishes
Jeanette
Thank u …
i dnt hav wrds for u
Great job..
For mac users:
here is a cool freeware ffmpegX which can help you easily add subtitle files ( srt and sub ) to Videos on mac
just follow this gudie:
How to add srt and sub files to videos on mac
@Lynn LU
Thank you very much for your info.
@All thanks giving commentators
Your very very welcome. Be sure to contact me if you have any trouble that perhaps need my help.
thanx for giving such a wonderful information…….
It really works!!!
How can i do this if i want du burn the movie with Nero and watch it on my tv/dvd-player?
Hey, so many thanks for the info, looking for it for months.
WOOOOOW !!! thts working PERFECTLY!!!! thank you a lot!
Thanks a lot, its realy working and so simple, thanksssssssssss one more time.
It seems like it won’t work, do you need to install VobSub into the media player’s folder? (I’m using Windows media player that came with Windows 7)
Dear John,
You do not need to install vobsub into media player’s folder. It is a standalone program. You just have to install it into the default location that the setup suggested.
I’m afraid the file names of your srt and avi are not matching. Try to check them again.
Thanks for leaving us comment.
Alvin Nyau.
hi, there are existing to ways to play subs with avi-container files: 1. softsub-method: like explained yet, you have 2 different files a avi and a srt, disadvantage: you always need 2 files; if the filenames are not equal or if the srt isn’t in the same folder like the avi it don’t work
2. hardsub: integrating the srt directly in the avi-file: advantage: you only have 1 file, disadvantage: you only can do it by ENCODING the avi which needs a little bit of time and action(open the avi in e.g. the TMPGenc encoderprogram, then you go on “filters”, “edit filter list”, add the “subtitles”-filter and open it, mark “enable subtitles” and then “import” the srt-file and encode the resulting avi with embedded subtitles into any format you wish -you also can change any subtitle phrase or timesetting manualy like you want..)
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hi,
first of all thanks a lot for your usefull hint, by the way I have a problem of the timing of text, (text is 20 secs after the film!). how can I fix it?
regards
hamid
The instructions above are spot on. Thanks a lot.
A simpler way is to use http://www.fsubs.com which will automatically rename the found subtitles to match the movie’s file name. You just need to make sure that you put the complete filename in the search box and not just the movie name
I’m glad it did help you guys out!
Using a Mac, how do I “burn” the subtitles into an AVI movie? I can view the subtitles when watching movie in VLC as above, but I want to convert to DVD format with the subtitles permanently (or not) burned in. Many thanks.
Hi
I’ve downloaded the subtitles (srt), but together with them there is also the horrible voice reading them. How to remove this voice?
zaland
Hi:
I think my question is new; if not, I apologize.
I have a video that is split into parts (.001, .002, .003, etc.) and I also have an .srt file with the same name, supposedly the English subtitles. I want to put all the pieces together, ending up with an .avi file with the subtitles embedded. I tried to use the HJSplit’s standard joining procedure to merge the .00X files and the .srt file. Not happening. I get an .avi file that plays perfectly, but no subtitles.
Here’s my question(s): Is it possible to do what I want with HJSplit using different steps?
If not, I will join the .00X parts with HJSplit and follow the above instructions to join the movie and the subtitles. Will I be able to copy the resulting file to DVD and play on a VCR?
Many thanks for you attention
Griff
@Rowbearto
WinAVI might be able to help you out. It is a software which you can convert AVI into DVD format (together with the subtitle). So, all you have to do is to convert your video before burning it into your dvd.
@zaland
You might have installed a suspicious plugin which does the voice reading. Try to find the particular plugin you have installed and uninstalled it.
@Griff
First of all, avi doesn’t need to “combine” with the srt. All you have to do is to install a plugin called VobSub for your players so that they are able to read the subtitle while playing videos for you. Be sure to rename both the avi and srt files into a same name and put them together in a same folder or directory.
*Playing movies with subtitles has nothing to do with Zipping/Unzipping or HJSplit.
Thank you for visiting!
I am trying to add the English subtitles to a mpeg4 movie that is being converted to avi but I only want subs for the foreign language audio not when the actors are speaking English. With the converter I am using Xilisoft Ultimate 5 it only allows me to add a complete subtitle srt file not just parts of it.
@Irv
Well, that’s not quite possible for you to do that with just a few simple steps or so. If you really want to do that, you will have to delete all the parts in your srt file that you do not want them to be shown using any srt editor.
Thanks Alvin for the tip. I could try to fool around with something like a srt editor to see if I can figure out how to do it. Can you refer me to an srt editor that is free to download and use.
I guess a srt editor removes text from the subs but do they indicate who is speaking those lines so I would know if it is the translation that I need and not from the English dialogue that I would have to remove.
This all very new to me so I am sorry for all the Qs.
@Irv
Please do not feel sorry. I am more than happy to help!
I believe this article in this page could help you out.
Thank you soooo much! I’ve tried almost everything else and it finally worked!
@Regan
You’re very much welcome!
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