So if you’re not sure which subtitles to download and play over your video in an offline media player, SRT is your best bet! Most basic media players only support the SRT file format for their subtitles. (Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash) Creating Subtitles for Media Players: Subtitles jump up to the top, above the actors faces and away from their names.
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You’ve probably seen this happen at the beginning or end of TV shows when the credits start showing at the bottom of the screen. You can also position subtitles to the top of the screen so that they don’t block any on-screen text already in the video. Italics are also used to show when a speaker is off-screen or is narrating a scene, like in flashbacks. You can make text bold, italic, or underlined which can be helpful for defining terms in a tutorial video. There are a lot of options that can be useful to communicate information to your audience. This format lets you apply styles to text that shows up in online video players on the platforms listed above. WebVTT is the World Wide Web Consortium‘s standard for web captions. For YouTube, Vimeo, Brightcove, or Kaltura the best option is WebVTT.
Other online platforms do allow you to add some styling to your subtitle files. So it’s important that you don’t include styling tags in your subtitles if you plan to upload them to Facebook or Instagram. Unformatted SRTs are a simple, easy option.Īlthough some styling features are available for SRT files, like HTML tags for bold () or italics () and curly bracket tags for positioning, Facebook and Instagram don’t support subtitle styling with SRT. Both social media platforms only allow uploading SRT files to videos. So the main question is: where are you going to use your subtitles?įor Facebook and Instagram, unformatted SRT is the best choice. Online video platforms and offline multimedia players support different subtitle file formats. That’s why we’ve made this little cheat-sheet to help you feel confident choosing the file format that fits you! Where Are You Going to Use Your Subtitle Files? While it’s tempting to pick something that looks familiar (or maybe just close your eyes and click) it’s more rewarding to learn a little bit now so you can save a lot of time later. There are a lot of variations out there because of the different ways we can view videos both online and offline. It can be overwhelming to navigate the alphabet soup of letter combinations in subtitle file names. What are these subtitle file formats and what are the differences between them? But when you go to download them, you are greeted by a long list of available file formats, all in unintelligible strings of three or four letters.
So you’ve just finished creating subtitles and you’re excited to use them.
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