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Re: Burn caption into video

From Geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, rec.photo.digital
Subject Re: Burn caption into video
Date 2025-02-27 09:18 +1300
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On 26/02/2025 8:52 pm, Oliver wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 07:12:23 -0600, Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> wrote
>> What's the best way on Windows to offline embed the text in an SRT
>> companion file to an MP4 video before uploading a short video clip to 
>> a web
>> site?
> 
> I want to update this thread given that I've burned in probably a score 
> of video captions since I originally opened this thread, so I want to 
> help get the message out what worked best to do that task with Windows 
> 10 freeware.
> 
> Editing the srt file works only up to a point because you have to look 
> at the video and edit the file at the same time, where the biggest 
> problem, really, is the annoying propensity of Windows to focus on the 
> wrong window.
> 
> So you're always switching your mouse focus between your text editor and 
> your video player as you navigate the video with MPC-BE or VLC freeware.
> 
> It's a bit worse than that with an editor because when you add a caption 
> in between two existing captions, you have to renumber all subsequent 
> indices.
> 
> Obviously that means you need a freeware subtitle editor, the best 
> almost universally being said to be Aegisub, which is functional, but 
> complicated.
> https://www.videohelp.com/software/Aegisub
> 
> The learning curve for Aegisub is so steep that I went back to text editing
> until, in frustration, I tried the "second best" solution, which worked!
> 
> This second-best freeware subtitle editor is the Subtitle Edit tool.
> https://www.videohelp.com/software/Subtitle-Edit
> 
> Subtitle Edit is much simpler and easier to make srt's than is Aegisub!
> 
> One pitfall though with Subtitle Edit is it doesn't play well with MPC-BE.
> Nor did it seem to work well with VLC, even though it's supposed to.
> Nor did it work at all when I manually installed mpv which it recommended.
> https://www.videohelp.com/software?d=mpv-x86_64-20181002.7z
> 
> But when I let Subtitle Edit download mpv on its own, it worked fine.
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/
> 
> Those are lessons learned I wanted to impart into this thread for you.
> Once you have the subtitles, you still need to burn them into the MP4 file.
> 
> For that, Paul's suggestion of ffmpeg has been working out fantastically.
> Lessons learned on burning in the subtitles are just in the frill options.
> 
> Burn subtitles, 30 point font:
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "subtitles=input.srt:force_style='FontSize=30'" 
> output_with_subtitles.mp4
> 
> Burn subtitles, 34 point font:
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "subtitles=input.srt:force_style='FontSize=34'" 
> output_with_subtitles.mp4
> 
> Burn subtitles, 34 point font, color BLACK:
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf 
> "subtitles=input.srt:force_style='FontSize=34,PrimaryColour=&H000000'" 
> output_with_black_subs.mp4
> 
> Burn subtitles, 34 point font, color WHITE:
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf 
> "subtitles=input.srt:force_style='FontSize=34,PrimaryColour=&HFFFFFF'" 
> output_with_white_subs.mp4
> 
> Burn subtitles, 34 point font, color RED:
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf 
> "subtitles=input.srt:force_style='FontSize=34,PrimaryColour=&H0000FF'" 
> output_with_red_subs.mp4
> 
> Burn subtitles, 34 point font, color GREEN:
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf 
> "subtitles=input.srt:force_style='FontSize=34,PrimaryColour=&H00FF00'" 
> output_with_green_subs.mp4
> 
> Burn subtitles, 34 point font, color BLUE:
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf 
> "subtitles=input.srt:force_style='FontSize=34,PrimaryColour=&HFF0000'" 
> output_with_blue_subs.mp4
> 
> The only other thing that's often needed is to set the thumbnail.
> What you can do is pick an exact frame you want to be that thumbnail.
> 
> This will extract a single frame exactly 70 seconds into the video:
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:01:10 -frames:v 1 thumbnail.jpg
> 
> If desired, this will extract a thumbnail every five seconds:
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "fps=1/5" thumb%04d.jpg
> Once you choose the thumbnail, this will embed it into the metadata:
> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i thumbnail.jpg -map 0 -map 1 -c copy - 
> disposition:v:1 attached_pic output.mp4
> I hope these lessons learned can help someone else, as I very much 
> appreciate the help Paul and others provided to me.

Alternatively you could spend US$49 and buy something like Magix Movie 
Studio 2025 and it would take possibly less time to achieve your aim 
than it did to type your post.


geoff

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geoff

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Burn caption into video Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-10-15 07:12 -0600
  Re: Burn caption into video Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-10-15 09:56 -0400
    Re: Burn caption into video Big Al <alan@invalid.com> - 2024-10-15 10:14 -0400
      Re: Burn caption into video Big Al <alan@invalid.com> - 2024-10-15 10:15 -0400
        Re: Burn caption into video Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-10-15 10:20 -0400
          Re: Burn caption into video Big Al <alan@invalid.com> - 2024-10-15 10:51 -0400
            Re: Burn caption into video Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-10-15 15:48 -0400
          Re: Burn caption into video Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-15 13:12 -0400
            Re: Burn caption into video Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-10-15 15:49 -0400
      Re: Burn caption into video Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-10-15 10:18 -0400
        Re: Burn caption into video Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-15 13:24 -0400
          Re: Burn caption into video Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2024-10-15 17:53 -0600
            Re: Burn caption into video Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-10-16 06:21 -0400
  Re: Burn caption into video "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-10-15 22:22 +0200
  Re: Burn caption into video Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2025-02-26 00:52 -0700
    Re: Burn caption into video Geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org> - 2025-02-27 09:18 +1300
      Re: Burn caption into video Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2025-02-26 17:28 -0700
        Re: Burn caption into video Geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org> - 2025-02-27 15:00 +1300
          Re: Burn caption into video Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2025-02-27 11:47 -0700
            Re: Burn caption into video Geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org> - 2025-02-28 11:36 +1300
              Re: Burn caption into video Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2025-02-27 17:33 -0700
                Re: Burn caption into video Geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org> - 2025-02-28 15:15 +1300
                Re: Burn caption into video Geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org> - 2025-02-28 15:20 +1300
                Re: Burn caption into video candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-03-23 16:00 +0000

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