I have a French language film with separate English .srt subtitles which plays fine in VLC. However, I want to play it on my TV and I can't get the subtitles to appear.
Is there any way in FCP X that I can combine the film and subtitles so that they are a hard-coded part of the film and are permanently visible?
If not possible with FCP X, how else could I achieve this?
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 11.5
I will have a look at that program, I was not aware of its existence.
FWIW, you CAN "burn in" the captions into the video when you export from FCP.
In the Share window, click Roles, then click Captions:
Problem Solved.
After numerous searches I discovered that VLC, HandBrake and a brand new free app called VideoProc Logger can do the trick.
Unfortunately, I couldn't follow the VLC instructions and HandBrake seemed very slow.
So I downloaded and used VideoProc Vlogger.
It has an interface resembling a pro editing app and uses hardware acceleration which got the job done in about half the time Handbrake takes.
https://www.videoproc.com/?ttsoft=vpvmac-1.0-help-trial-guide
That is very easy to fix.
Things are rarely simple!
It turned out that the subtitle delay was not constant. It was pretty much in sync at the start of the film but there was a 7 - 8 second delay by the end.
My solution was to retime the film using the Custom setting and drag the film out so that it was about 7 seconds longer resulting in the subtitles being in sync all the way through.
Thanks Luis, that's exactly what I wanted.
Just one problem. I don't seem to be able to import the .srt file into FCP X?
The subtitles are about 9 seconds after the spoken word. Is there any way of moving them along the timeline to compensate?
Thanks for all the help.
Good solution!
Got it! File>Import>Captions
Subtitles?
