How to Create Movie Subtitles Using Notepad

 

Creating a movie subtitle is actually not that hard, all one needs is a computer with an inbuilt text editor (preferably notepad) and he is good to go.

A specific type of file format called .srt file are globally used for movie subtitles. And today I am going to show you guys how how to create a basic .srt file using notepad.

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How to create an srt file

The data in the .srt file is written in the following format.
- Subtitle number

- Start time --> End time

  00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000

  (hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds)

- Subtitle texts

The Start time and End time are written in hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds format

Now to create a subtitle file, all you need do is launch your notepad and start editing it as per the video.
See the example below for a better understanding.

1
00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,600
I love ice-cream.
2
00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:27,700
But lastweek you said you hated them?
3
00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,600
well, i like them now!

when you are done, save it with any name in .srt extension.
Now open any mp4 file with  VLC media player and drag-drop the .srt file in it.

 

Explaining the code

The text has been written in plain text but with a specific format.

You just need to be careful  about the timing. For example I can tell you, if you play the above .srt file, the dialog "i love ice-cream ?" will come at 19 second 000 millisecond and will stay on screen upto 22 second 600 millisecond. (3 secs 600 milliseconds)... And the dialogue "But lastweek you said you hated them" will come up at 24 seconds 900 millisecond and will stay on screen upto 27 second 700 millisecond (3 sec 200 milliseconds).

So to get the time lag of your subtitle right you just play your movie and side by side go on adding as much dialog as you want in the notepad by setting the proper time.....

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