Create Subtitles Automatically in the NEW Davinci Resolve 18.5 Studio!

[@Sustainavore]

This is great! Thank you as always, Alex! One thing I'd add is that if you set your in and out, Resolve will only create subtitles in that section, so for your section at 10:00, you could just lock the track, set your in and out to your gap, and run it again, and it would only do the section you had selected. I would just make sure you set your in and out a little extra wide since it can cut off the first or last one a bit. Definitely agree with your suggestions. I do so much work with subs for vertical content, and while this is a great feature, it's nearly useless currently for my workflow and needs. Really hope they improve the F out of this, but I'm so happy they've added it!

[@MrAlexTech]

Ah I didn't even think about In and Out! Argggh. Thank you for that 🙂👍

[@Sustainavore]

@@MrAlexTech I only discovered it by accident while following along with your video and realizing after creating the subs that they stuck to my in and out, so a happy accident.

[@TheRetroPerspective]

Just in time as I was editing a video today where I speak in a broad yorkshire dialect! Auto generated captions always seem to struggle with my accent but this was 99% spot on! Davinci Resolve is proper crackin'.

[@MrAlexTech]

Awesome! I've been so impressed with its ability to understand the many variations of the english language so far 😆

[@sOOtieLive]

Yorkshire should be the standard that ALL voices are measured :)

[@amusik7]

Just tested it out and did a nearly perfect job with only 2 typos in a 5 minute video. It even detected some strange words completely correctly. The conversion took 20 seconds - so it saved me a huge amount of time.

[@BlackArroToons]

Good to hear, thank you for the information on subtitles generated and exported directly in the software. Cool.

[@IcelandAdventures]

awesome.. and the end part about burning them in was the eye opener for me... I watched half and rendered them and then lol wondered where they went ! so had to go back and watch the rest.. thanks again Alex !

[@marclattoni1959]

Thanks!

[@AAvfx]

Thank you for all your tutorials. Keep up the great work.

[@FishingwithZnM]

Mr. Alex, Thank you for everything you do! Missed the burning them into the video when I did my first export with captions... thank you for pointing that out as I missed / skipped over it. You Rock!!

[@todoaleman]

Awesome video, Alex! I was wondering whether you could share the name of the font you are using for the subtitles throughout this video. They looked quite nice!

[@DougStaples]

Great to have you back!

[@chrisbogart687]

This is a Great Leap Forward for DR with auto captions and the transcription/edit capabilities. I thing you hit the nail on the head with options/customization. But for a start - rock solid. 👍👍👍

[@iiiiiMILLYiiiii]

Class vid Alex.. Happy bank Holiday...

[@mikesunboxing]

fantastic video, you really are good at this stuff!

[@zi.gg.y3718]

Just switched to Davinci Resolve Studio, now watching all of your channel. @MrAlexTech Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.🙏 One thing I couldn't find on your channel which might be an interesting video for all people switching now to Davinci Resolve: "How to import projects from FinalCut/Premiere/Vegas into Davinci Resolve PROPERLY" (without losing links) I know I can export/import XML timeline, but Davinci Resolve then unlinks video and audio and splits stereo to dual mono tracks. Which makes it hard to finish an existing project switching to DR.

[@DocuLearnTM]

Just what I needed :D I have just started producing short documentaries using davinci resolve, but sometimes my english pronounciation is a bit hard to understand :') I will for sure implement subtitles on my future videos :)

[@JeromeLove]

For sure having the option to right click on a specific audio track to do subtitles and select a color or it would pull what ever color the respective track is would be awesome. That would help with multi track videos and make things on click if it could be set in the project settings. Also, I'm sure this is something they are more than likely working on but having subtitles auto format to a Text+ or "convert on completion" would make things even better! Glad to see BlackMagic adding these features!

[@chrisalman-equipfp]

definitely would like to see the animated subtitles in the finished version!🤞

[@SystemSentinel]

You nailed it with the subtitle customizations. We need more customization on the subtitles and the subtitle track to get an overhaul. Hopefully that's next.

[@njobarainnocent9451]

Nice and detail clip. Was so helpful. Good Job. Am using studio 18.6 much new features and works well. Thanks

[@NoobsCreations]

Once we get KEY frames and more customizations it will be game changing.

[@GaryCunninghamyouareenough]

Alex?... BEST.INTRO.EVER 🤣🤣👏👏👏 Excellent video as always - Cheers, Alex 🙏🏻

[@MaikKellerhals]

I don't have any use for any sort of subtitles. But it still amazes me how fast the developement of the softtware moves forward. I just with they would focus on some old weird stuff, like the way transform animations behave in the edit view...

[@JeremySee]

Is there a way to import my script and have it sync to the AI generated transcript?

[@UltraTrailSteven]

Man this is awesome! Thanks for detailed how-to!

[@CoreyHunter]

I used it for the first time the other day and wow, it worked great! I found a site to translate for my Spanish-speaking viewers and that seemed to work pretty good from my knowledge of the Spanish language. Will be nice to get more language options in the future.

[@YamilSunRay]

Awesome feature. One can fix the thing with multiple people just by recording on two channels, I guess. Muting one channel, running auto subs, locking it and then doing the same with the other one. I think that's the way to go with Podcasts or Rode mics. Just an idea until further updates. Love this feature, tho. and German is already working.

[@LeleOnMusic]

FYI, just checked and Italian and a bunch of other languages (including AUTO) are in there (18.5 b5) already :) Also, a 3:14 minutes video took about 4 minutes to generate subtitles on a Macbook Pro 13" M1 2020 model at Analysis speed roaming around 4.0-5.0x There's also styling added, so now you can have Netflix style and Teletext style subs

[@ElectroTone]

_Finally_ found someone demonstrating that yes, we can export the subtitles to a file, as opposed to baking them into the video. Very important for us non-native English speakers, who want to give our viewers the option of seeing non-auto generated subtitles. IE. _not_ the auto generated continuously 'flowing' velotype stuff, often used for hard-of-hearing people in some parts of the world. (Special notice to native English speakers: This use case is _extremely_ common in non-English speaking countries. Which happens to be most of the world.) Thanks Alex. 👍 Just commenting for maximum algorithmic KZbin visibility goodness. 😅 Edit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHjSkpucbtKcqbc " _the DaVinci Resolve Norrul Engine_ " 🤔(Neural.) So yes, it did make at least one mistake. 😁

[@studiorosenfors5683]

Big fan of DR and BMD in general.. they are gamechangers in our industry. And this is another great update..but auto subtitles causes DR to quit about 10 seconds after it starts generating them. Clean exit to Windows. Auto transcribe works. Anyone else has this problem? We use an uptodate system, but a humble video card (Nvida K2200, 4Mb). Thnx, keep up the good work Alex!

[@brothernimishcoelho]

I would like to point out that DaVinci adds a hyphen at the beginning of the phrase when the speaker changes, so it actually does detect a change in the person who is speaking, but doesnt label the people. At least it worked like that for me.

[@IdyniaSAS]

Awesome video and awesome titles, how did you create your grading titles please

[@HEARDIFFERENT]

Now THAT'S AN INTROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@clopes50]

Wonderful review!!! Thank you Alex!

[@marymcleanfarmer]

Thanks for this Alex. This is going to save me so much time. I subtitle all my videos and even though I'll be cutting and pasting from my script, it takes an age to do. Thanks also for the explanation of exporting to KZbin as an SRT without formatting. I've been caught out by that before.

[@LeeTaylorTV]

It Is a shame that its only available on studio but I do truly understand why, such a great thing to have, will be getting the speed editor soon

[@anthonylawang9083]

INSTANT LIKE! wow, that was the best intro ever

[@DanielEarl]

I'm just thrilled to have accurate auto gen captions. 😊

[@complete-mayhem-x64]

Fixed that title fast! Great video friendo

[@BenjiDWJ]

This is awesome news 😁 Cheers! 🥃🥃

[@rafal-linka]

Niezły i szczegółwy opis opcji, fajnie że wiem o tym więcej.

[@tonyv3000]

Just a tip on those who use dual screens, I was getting frustrated with losing the transcription window box and not being to get it back up again. It will hide behind the secondary screen (non primary) when called up again (Right clicking the clip in the bin>Transcribe Audio). Switch to either Cut or Deliver pages and drag it over to the primary screen.

[@Yakez42]

No cloud, wow love it! Need to take it on a spin with my bad English

[@Ryukiroku]

What I wouldn't give to be able to have it do individual words as well so you can do those trendy KZbin subtitles that you see on gaming videos and whatnot. That and subtitle track to Text+ is a must. Hope Blackmagic's got in in their plans somewhere. This is already pretty game changing as is.

[@niceguyschool]

I have been looking at tools that will help edit talking head videos. Descript is a tool that allows you to edit the written transcript and compile the video with selected elements. Remove any unwanted content and eliminate duplicate shots to create a polished timeline. I think resolve is on a path towards that kind of editing from a written transcript to create a clean first draft of a timeline. Have you explored this type of editing?

[@JerryFlowersIII]

I was always exporting my videos and uploading them to some random site that auto generates my captions and then I'd spend a while in their bad editor to fix them. This'll be a great help. I just need to finally grab studio next time I start a project. I've been wanted to for a while and 18.5 is a good a time as ever.

[@AndyMaherVoicePro]

It's also a pity that (at least in my experience) you can't include captions in compound clips. I'd love it if that became a thing! Great video as always mate.

[@CourtWatchAu]

Great infos thanks. Could you please show some more editing via the 'text highlight section/window' on the left side . eg doing some sentence/word removal in text and then show how well it cuts the timeline after the word etc thankyou Also there a way to make the subtitle track all one piece instead of lots of little pieces, ?

[@andrewlunn]

another great tutorial - thanks Alex

[@feelgoodhypnosis]

Excellent video - but my export still not working - first sub is at 01:00:00:09 but srt and vtt all read 01:00:03.975 --> 01:00:05.226 it has shifted all subs out by 3s!! :-( tried copying and pasting into fresh project as the project was 'updated to 18.5 version'. Any thoughts?

[@counterstrike89]

You've spoken to one of the lead developers at Black Magic, dang, hey if you can, please request to have them make it so you can scroll through the audio tracks and video tracks without having them separated, show them Magix movie edit pro interface, that is the best for having the most room to work with on the screen.

[@harrisoinila]

I wish they made export subtitles on by default if there are subtitles. Especially before auto‐generated ones, if you go through the trouble of creating them, you probably want to export them too! Annoys me so much when I spend hours translating and captioning a long interview, and then the software assumes I don't want to do anything with all that work and I have to go back and export it all over again. Anyway, it's a great tool.

[@TravisHeinze]

I was suckered into trying the Beta and it crashes at the start.

[@PawPawMountain]

Thanks Alex!! You do great work!

[@nastyfero]

Hello! You have the tutorial for this hightighted captions? 7:45

[@TheEndlessVoyage]

In terms of customizing the style/color of the captions, can you save this as a preset somewhere so you don't have to reconfigure all of these options every time?

[@ochareofrankbell]

Thank you for your help

[@TheEndlessVoyage]

I love this font (in your captions above). What font is it?

[@paulcain548]

Great feature Alex. Will come in handy for people who can’t understand my Wiganese 😂😂😂👍🏻

[@toddgattfry5405]

This is great! As an existing Resolve Studio customer, how do download the Beta version?

[@monizfilms]

Can I change a word that is misspelled across all the subtitles as you can with transcription?

[@FrizzleburgAdjacent]

I have the studio version of 18.5 beta, but nothing happens when I click Create Subtitles from Audio.

[@tamarcuspowell]

wow glad im came to check this out , hopefully they can release a japanese subs in a later date

[@FliesEyes]

Perfect. Got me out of another bind.

[@joealley0]

W for considering iPad users alongside, big fan as an ipad only editor

[@jmcgerr]

Your section of video with Carlo was pretty noisy but seemed to pick up audio well for the subtitles. Would it be better to run the vocal isolation on noisy tracks before generating the titles?

[@Cwahsawnt]

Off topic question, is there a way to export a video with an alpha channel to be used as a stream alert? I've tried 1. Quicktime-> GoPro Cineform->Export Alpha checked (both with single clip or Individual clips checked), and 2. Quicktime-> DNxHR-> DNxHR 444 12-bit with export alpha checked. The first method, the video is unusable. The second method works to preview (as in playing in VLC player), but can't be uploaded to sites. I've been struggling with this for years and its honestly depressing at this point because I've been trying with workarounds (like OBSs' built in filters) but they're subpar and always leave green in.

[@stain0269]

You mentioned in a previous video of things youd like to see something with the voice isolation. You mentioned youd like it to work the opposite way and be able to remove voices/conversations/song lyrics instead of isolating them. Just curious if you talked to anyone from BM about that while you were at NAB?

[@RexxReviews]

Great video as always, can't wait for this version to go live! I have a VERY random question. I don't know what version of resolve this started happening, but it used to be when you drag the edge of a clip to shorten or extend it you would get a preview of what you were doing so you knew where to stop... that no longer seems to be the case for me, im getting no preview and its making trying to drag trim a clip a PITA to now without the preview to go by. I don't know if its resolve doing this or some random option I've accidently disabled.

[@captiveoddience]

Great video Alex. Quick question: if I record 2 people, each with their own mic and on their own track, am I able to generate 2 separate subtitle tracks, color them differently and offset them, and then collapse them into one track by making them a compound clip? And if so, is there any way to get KZbin to keep the formatting without hard coding them onto the screen? I'm hoping to solve the multiple speaker problem.

[@sethtxpromomedia4296]

Is it possible to have it generate multi-lined captions? I'd like to have 2 lines per caption. Or is that not a feature yet? The only option I can figure out is to manually edit the captions.

[@laurentiudll]

would love a tutorial on how to do the autogenerated captions text effects in fusion

[@aliciafernandez3008]

Thanks Alex.

[@Pallidus_Rider]

Are there plans for FCC (USA) CC certification?

[@Foniki_Garida]

Thank you very much! You help me a lot!!! Thank you!!!!!

[@davidwright6839]

Alex, I am doing projects that use old home video from the '80s on Hi-8 video tape converted to digital. Could you do a video on restoration tools in DaVinci Resolve to clean up the video and audio on this material? I have been experimenting but I don't know if its better to fix the pixels first before color grading or vice versa. Is there a way to go from 4:3 to 16:9 that looks better than just zooming out?

[@TheSoundofU]

Thank you again Alex for a really awesome, informative video. I do have a question regarding music. When the language feature allows for different languages, will it be likely to be able to display the song lyrics for that language? or too early to say? You did mention this isn't an option yet, but it would be really cool to have this. cheers Gary

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Jealous. Amazing video dude!

[@WillemRas]

I hope they adding padding on the background in future updates.

[@stain0269]

I have the studio version but haven't grabbed the update yet, not in a bjg hurry so ill probably wait. Wondering if the uploading the video and the captions to KZbin is complicated? I know you said you upload the video then have to upload the caption export file ( if i understood you correctly ) could you maybe do a quick video just on that process? I'm more of a visual learner and you explain things in a way thats easy to follow/learn from.

[@zeitgeistzero]

Has anyone else had problems where it won't create subtitles if you have voice isolation dialogue leveler on?

[@BGilbert85]

Did I do something wrong? It said that this wasn't available with Resolve and that I had to upgrade to Fusion to use this feature. It seems SOOOOO useful!

[@chaoticneutral1090]

If you could just shove the subtitles from subtitle onto he video tracks or copy them somehow to have them as text+ that would be nice too, idk if that would be possible

[@ExcellentfilmsTube]

@MrAlexTech I discovered something interesting - auto subtitles with songs doesn't quite work well, but if you turn on the VOICE ISOLATION function on the song before analyzing the song, the subtitles will be created practically without any problem - and then just turn off VOICE ISOLATION - greetings ;)

[@willcroshaw-cw4is]

they are great only thing is a feel like they have a bit of a delay with the timings of the subtitles and i wish you could convert them into text+ automatically

[@akyhne]

Yeah, they are too late, but there's a relatively easy fix. Export to .srt file, import to the free software Subtitle Edit, click on "Synchronization" in the menu, and select "Adjust all times (show earlier/later)". Click in the adjustment (text field) 0:01 field under hour:min:sec:ms once, click your arrow up ket a few times, so the text says e.g. 00:00:00,300, and click the "Show earlier" - button. Done! You can now save the file, and import into DR. File - > import - > subtitle.

[@MrAlexTech]

Yeaah a smidge I agree. I'd probably just highlight them all on the track and move them forward a few frames.

[@willcroshaw-cw4is]

yeah mostly just waiting for more animation options there might already be a script that automatically converts subtitles to text+ but i haven't found one

[@mohamadali2066]

I need something like ease and wizz for keyframes in the edit page of resolve plz let me know if there's any

[@michaelbobarev]

Thanks ! my first video with CC ...ever ! -))

[@KennethSmith59]

With Music, have you tried voice isolation?

[@MisterTolley]

I have a shaky/buzzy recording of a vocally frail 90yr old relative with a deeeep Somerset accent being interviewed by someone shouting at him with a very "proper" accent from the Imperial War Museum in London. The interviewer had serious understanding problems - "pardon... sorry... can you repeat that?..." The transcript from DVR was waaaaay better than he was at comprehending the speech, only slipping over at rare place names like Fifehead Magdalen.

[@rossscobievideographer53]

I have the studio version, I tried to upgrade to 18.5 Beta and it says I need to be on Studio, am I missing something lol

[@Bigfpictures]

Hi Alex, I'm currently running DaVinci Resolve 17 and need to add subtitles. If I upgrade to 18.5 Beta and backup my local database, do you think it should be good to upgrade or would that mess my current project's timeline?

[@davidbrown2068]

I create my videos in English. If I generate subtitles can I edit them later and translate them to Polish? Can I have two subtle tracks?

[@JJSEvolution]

Until Capcut goes down I will stick to the free version. However the price for Studio is not bad at all and if I hear the price will increase I will buy it before that

[@AM23.]

Non of this is intuitive. You're help is a necessity!! Thanks m8!

[@dieterseitz1708]

Now I have 18.5 (no Beta) and for me German is working very good.

[@nzkoe5069]

Hi, is there a way to turn my subtitles texts into caps please? Thank you. Yout videos are awesome dude thank you for making them

[@Melkie11]

I updated to davinci resolve 18.5 but i dont have the option for auto subtitles.. can someone please help me?

[@ShelduckHolmes]

Could you also upload those subtitles to KZbin so that those of us who don't know much English can translate the subtitles on KZbin, thanks

[@ArcticExploring]

Imagine in future when you get get subtitles for all languages you want, if they implent a translation too.

[@JediMasterBinkz]

say if someone couldn't afford studio at the moment BUT wanted to use DR BUUUUUT wanted captions how would someone go about it? rn im suing PP and i like it but i wanna make the switch to DR - the kicker is i cant afford to drop 500 CAD at the moment and i'm hoping it comes to the free version eventually but mean time what would be a good alternative to said issue?

[@equisetuminc]

Can it do captions in Norwegian? and then translate them into English?