#subtitle edit

如果你也正在學習字幕製作，或者正在尋找一套好用的字幕編輯軟體，不妨試著了解看看 Subtitle Edit 的操作方式。透過實際的操作練習，慢慢熟悉字幕時間軸的調整技巧，相信在之後的字幕製作過程中，整體效率一定會有明顯的提升。希望這次分享的實際操作示範，能夠對字幕編輯有所幫助，也希望能讓字幕製作這件事情變得稍微輕鬆一點點。🙂🎬

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Using MKV, I tried to multiplex srt and mp4 but somehow subtitle didn’t come out. I don’t know what issue to fix.

Hi nonnie ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

Thank you for reading my soft-sub tutorial guide. So MKVToolnix can't directly nix MP4 files with subtitles. You would have to convert the MP4 file into MKV first and then proceed to multiplex the soft subtitle into the MKV file instead. Let me walk you through a visual guide for that.

First, I would drop my MP4 file into MKVToolnix like this. Choose the destination folder I want to save it in and then hit Start multiplexing. MKVToolnix should give you the MKV file in a minute or two because they aren't re-rendering the file, just repackaging the MP4 file into an equivalent MKV file with no quality loss.

Then I would hit Ctrl + N so I can start a new window.

Drag and drop my new MKV file in the new empty window.

Drag and drop my subtitle file into the window with the MKV -> hit OK.

Press the pencil button on the right side of the Language: Undetermined (und) -> choose the language of my subtitle in the dropdown menu that popped up -> hit OK (mine is Vietnamese so I'll choose that).

Hit Start multiplexing and let MKVToolnix do its magic.

When you open your new MKV file -> Right click on the screen -> Subtitle -> Sub Track, your soft subtitle should appear like this.

Step 1: Open the website of the video which you know has soft subs options

(For this tutorial, I'm using Chrome browser and grabbing Mandate soft subs from Gagaoolala but this method should work 90% of the time with any browser/basic video streaming platform that isn't strictly copyright protected like Netflix for example)

Step 2: Before pressing play on the video, right click on your screen and choose Inspect (last option)

Step 3: Choose Network in the tab that opened up on the right side of your browser. If it doesn't show Network as picture below, the arrow button should lead you to a drop down menu that has the Network option.

Step 4: In the Filter search query space, type "vtt" (I usually go for vtt because my experience with grabbing soft subs is that most of them are in VTT files)

Step 5: Press play on the video (or Refresh the page if you had accidentally press play prior to typing vtt in the search)

Step 6: Using intuition (or actually keep testing out files using the following method), right click on an appearing vtt file and choose 'Open in new tab'

Step 6: Go the newly opened tab and see if it's a file that has timestamps and lines (indicating that it is a subtitle file). If it is indeed a subtitle file, press Ctrl+S (or right click and choose Save as) and save the subtitle file to your computer

(Optional) Step 7: Drag and drop the newly saved VTT file into Subtitle Edit (download), choose File -> Save as (or press Ctrl + Shift+ S) and save file as SubRip (*.srt) file. You have to scroll all the way up in the drop down menu as it is the default/first option.

(Optional) Step 8: Rename your file exactly how your MP4/MKV file is name and add '.en' before '.srt' if you want your subtitle file to be recognised as English

Unrelated tip: Subtitle Edit allows you to extract SRT from MKVs that have embed official subtitles (like the mkvs one might download from MKVDrama).

For example, this is how my Subtitle Edit screen looks like when I drag and drop my Shine Episode 8 MKV file into it. Choose eng track -> Press OK -> File -> Save as.

As a gifmaker, sometimes I find it handy to have the subtitle files either in SRT or TXT form just to copy the captions without have to open the video files again and manually type in the subtitles when I'm making gifs, so I hope this is somewhat useful.

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