OpenShot Tutorial #14 | How To Add Captions and Subtitles In OpenShot.

[@akiwoo5205]

Thank you for the tutorial. Especially the multi clip workaround.

[@ineomanb]

You"re welcome. Just glad that you found it useful.

[@slimeinabox]

i can't believe it was THAT easy. I've been typing in caption times manually for so long lol.

[@ineomanb]

😂 Glad that you found my tutorial useful.

[@faisrush]

Thank you kind sir

[@samirdoua2319]

Thank you for this video tutorial, I found it very helpful for me. I'll save it for future projects.

[@thesoundtherapycompany]

Great tutorial thanks. Very in depth. I had an issue trying to use captions with a video clip recorded on a mobile phone. The captions ran vertically. I have been trying to find out if there was a setting to change the orientation, but without luck. I'm glad I watched the video to the end. My solution was to add a title overlay on the top track and use it as a caption track as suggested. It worked very well. Thank you.

[@ineomanb]

You're welcome. Glad that you found it useful 🙏

[@LogicalKip]

Good job. Going straight to the point, then elaborating on more complex topics for those who need it.

[@ineomanb]

Thanks 🙏

[@Healershut]

was having a hard time with this, Thank you for the tutorial

[@nach0x]

thank you so much for this, there is a way to add a date and time to a video?

[@pinayodyssey]

Thank you! :)

[@guatemala3d]

Great video! is it possible to export this caption track as an .srt file?

[@DeutschlernenmitMaike]

thank you, danke schön 🙂

[@ineomanb]

You're welcome :)

[@BrainfulGamers007]

thank u brother, great work

[@ineomanb]

Thanks :)

[@kari6842]

good evening, I have one question, with openshot, you can make the zoom effect, that you have in your video? Thanks for your answer.

[@ineomanb]

Of course. OpenShot is one of the best (if not the best) when it comes to adding zooming and panning effects as you can choose your desired interpolation mode. You can watch my other video on how to add zooming and panning effect in OpenShot right here kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6fMkI2aiqaDa6s

[@cvbarney]

Thank you very much for this great explanation! Do you know if it's possible to center the caption text (instead of left alignment)?

[@ineomanb]

Unfortunately, for caption that spans over more than 1 line, there isn't any setting for center alignment yet. The only "messy" workaround that I've tried is by adding sufficient white space between the last word of the previous line and the first word of the next one. It's obviously not a proper way of doing it. Hopefully the OpenShot contributors will add this feature in the future version.

[@amarcordamarcord2883]

HI! I have a problem. I edited two clips together, and between the two there is a fade out (slow) and a fade in (slow). However, I would need the subtitles to remain visible during the fades between the two clips, but they also disappear together with the images, and then return. How can I solve it? Thank you

[@ineomanb]

The solution is already in the video at 14:04 You need to put the captions on a dedicated track that should be placed as the top-most track. Pls refer to the video for more detailed steps.

[@srj6963]

thank you sir

[@ineomanb]

You're very welcome!

[@davidpaul3747]

Is this bug still in version 3.2.1?

[@JoseLopez-pq2zb]

THANK YOU SO MUCH . GREAT TUTORIAL.😀

[@ineomanb]

You're so welcome! Glad that you found it great and helpful. I hope it'll help many others who are learning OpenShot too.

[@user-HagaiEitanOfficial]

Hello. I have attached an srt file in the Hebrew language to openshot but the software does not display the subtitles. Do you know the reason for this? Thank you

[@ineomanb]

Hmmm.... I'm not quite sure what exactly you mean by "attaching an srt file to OpenShot", but I believe it may be one of these two. If you try to add the file to the project, then OpenShot won't allow it. An srt file is supposed to be opened by the video player, not the video editor. If you copy the captions text of an srt file and paste them on the OpenShot's caption editor, then the timestamps of your srt file may not be compatible with OpenShot's caption timestamp format. You need to make sure the timestamp format is in OpenShot's format.

[@user-HagaiEitanOfficial]

@@ineomanb The video player does not recognize the font in the Hebrew language. He does recognize numbers. I added the file with a subtitle effect

[@ineomanb]

Oh I see. Well in that case, it's just a language support problem. That means OpenShot doesn't yet fully support Hebrew. I'm sorry to say, that as far as I know, there's nothing you can do except waiting for some kind contributor to add full support to Hebrew to OpenShot.

[@user-HagaiEitanOfficial]

@@ineomanb Thank you very much in any case, that's why for now I edit in open shot and burn the subtitles in catcup

[@user-HagaiEitanOfficial]

Can you please show the openshot creators this problem because mine is hard to access them. Thank you very much 1000 times

[@gregorybrogdoniii155]

How do I flip the subtitles? My video has them displayed as upside down.

[@ineomanb]

You should flip or rotate the video clip not the subtitle. Check out my other video on the OpenShot playlist on flipping a video.

[@FlubFlubber]

It's all nice that it's possible, but unfortunately it loses quality. Or am I doing something wrong? My 2 videos were more than 6GB in size, after using Openshot it is only 1.59GB in size.

[@ineomanb]

Make sure you select the right video profile and quality on the export dialog. It could be that you set the video quality setting to "Low". You can refine the video quality setting further by showing the Advanced tab, then click video settings, then set the "Bit Rate / Quality" to your preference, say 12 Mb/s. For a trial, maybe you can try exporting your video using KZbin profile. On the export dialog, select Web as profile, then select KZbin HD as target, and then set the Quality setting to High or Medium. It's a trial and error to get the best balance between the video quality and the file size. I've explained this in my other OpenShot tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3zOinpjfLFld5o.

[@FlubFlubber]

@@ineomanb It was on 4K 60fps. And i did it also in imovie, the same problem. But thx for the comment.

[@ineomanb]

Oh I see. Well, it could be just a bug that hasn't been fixed. It's an open source software, and it's free! So pls bear with it :)

[@FlubFlubber]

@@ineomanb I have the same problem with imovie.

[@FlubFlubber]

@@ineomanb I found a good one without quality loss, davinci resolve.

[@Arcemedias]

soo my playhead is over the captioned clip and my text is still not showing up. any idea whats wrong?

[@ineomanb]

Make sure you add the Caption effect to the video clip on the top-most track for any given time, and the video clip's alpha property should not be 0 (or transparent). Or if you've added a fade effect to the video clip, your Playhead might be at the position where your the video is still not visible yet. Other than that, it could be just the intermittent minor glitch on the Caption effect, where you can just remove it first, and then try adding it again. I've personally encountered it a couple of times, but it's nothing serious. I hope this helps.

[@Arcemedias]

thanks man, i couldnt figure it out maybe it needs to be updated but i appreciate the help@@ineomanb

[@ineomanb]

No problem, bro. Maybe try updating your OpenShot to the latest version to solve it. The caption editor still has some minor bugs, and I've also mentioned one of them (and the trick to fix it) in the later part of this video.

[@symbolmonkey23]

I dragged and dropped a caption effect and it wont show up at all

[@ineomanb]

With your limited information, I can't tell for sure what exactly happened and hence what the root cause was. But as I mention in my video, you probably just need to move the Playhead over the clip which you added the Caption effect to.

[@claudecarpentieri5502]

Thanks for the kind video and the time you took. However, what on earth are people at OpenShot thinking??? The weirdest, most user-unfriendly, counterintuitive way of applying captions - if you manage, that is.

[@ineomanb]

Well, yes, it's not quite intuitive and certainly could be made much better. But let's not forget that it's an open source software developed by many contributors voluntarily incrementally over a long period of time. You should never expect it to be as good as those commercial ones, or those offered by big companies like Bytedance with its CapCut. And also maybe (just my guess) the core architecture of OpenShot doesn't quite allow easy addition of a more user friendly caption tool. Maybe that's why the tool is put in the Effect library, which is indeed quite weird.

[@ObsoletePerson]

This is an awfully obtuse way to apply captions. I wish there was a way we could apply captions to the entire timeline as a whole and not just individual clips. At this stage, if I have an abundance of individual clips, it'd be easier for me to export the entire project as a video file and add captions to that instead.

[@ineomanb]

Well, I've actually included a simple trick/workaround to achieve that. Someone in the comment even thanked me for that. I guess you skipped that part of the tutorial :)

[@R2MintOptions]

It's one of the best out of the free video editors. If you could get a hold of it, Sony Movie Studio 12 or 13 has the best subtle title function--very intuitive, feature-rich, and ease of use.

[@Mudassarabbas144]

Capcut is better then this lazy softwwar😊

[@ineomanb]

I'm a neutral and try out various video editors, and now also exploring CapCut. Every software has its own users/followers, so for me I just respect their choices :)

[@bre-games]

Too long, should have been 5 mins or less

[@ineomanb]

Ok thanks. Noted! But FYI, I've always tried to make my video as short as possible without sacrificing the completeness and clarity of the topic. For this one, I felt that I had to explain all the possible issues people might encounter under different scenarios, and provide solutions/workarounds for those issues. If you feel that it's too long, that's ok with me. But I guess you just work on a single simple scenario, where you just need a straight forward demonstration. So, just skip it, bro! :)