How to add subtitles to a film I want to watch on my iPad Pro?

In a nutshell, a German film-maker has sent me a copy of their new film but omitted and subtitle film, which I now thankfully have I only use iTunes to watch movies or on my iPad pro but I have no clue how I can add the subtitles using iTunes. can someone help Apple Support wasn't able to help at all


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iPad Pro, iPadOS 15

Posted on Mar 22, 2023 8:47 AM

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Posted on Mar 22, 2023 1:03 PM

You cannot combine them through iTunes. You will need a 3rd party app such as Handbrake that can bake the srt file into the movie file either in a soft or hard manner. Soft subtitles can be turned on or off. Hard subtitles are permanently added onto the movie and cannot be turned off.


https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/advanced/subtitles.html



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Mar 22, 2023 1:03 PM in response to jonathan237

You cannot combine them through iTunes. You will need a 3rd party app such as Handbrake that can bake the srt file into the movie file either in a soft or hard manner. Soft subtitles can be turned on or off. Hard subtitles are permanently added onto the movie and cannot be turned off.


https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/advanced/subtitles.html



Mar 22, 2023 9:33 AM in response to jonathan237

Do you mean you want to manually type in the subtitles yourself scene by scene?

Or are you looking for an option to somehow get the film to show subtitles when you are watching it?


For the first one, you need a special software to create a subtitle file (.srt) to link to the movie.

https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/create-srt-file/


for the second one, if no subtitles were added to the movie in post production, you can't magically get any subtitles to appear as there would be nowhere to pull them from.


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