Add Subtitles to Your Videos Quickly and Easily – Here’s how!

Subtitles are text that appear on the screen to tell you what is being said in a video. This is an easy way to translate spoken dialog from one language to another, and makes it possible to make the video available in other countries and languages without the need for expensive and time-consuming voice-over work.

Subtitles can also be used to provide information in addition to what is being said. For example, you can use them to tell the viewer that the location in the video has changed, or you can add information about individual scenes. Or you can use them to introduce jumps forward or backward in time, or to introduce a new sub-section of your video.

Subtitles generally also make your video more barrier-free, since the on-screen text allows hearing-impaired or deaf persons to follow the plot more easily. And in some situations people also appreciate being able to watch a video without sound and still understand it thanks to subtitles.

So there are many reasons to insert subtitles in your video, and there are just as many ways to do it. You don’t have to settle for white letters at the bottom of the screen. For a wedding video, for example, festive animated subtitles that float elegantly across the screen are a much better fit than stationary, matter-of-fact text in Arial.

As you can see, adding subtitles to video can easily turn into a pretty complicated affair. But don’t worry: Movie Studio Platinum makes it easy to create and insert subtitles. Movie Studio Platinum is a comprehensive program for editing video picture and sound, and provides you with everything you need to create and add subtitles.

It’s super easy to use: Simply select one of the included templates and add your own text to it, or create your own subtitles from scratch in just a few clicks.

Our step-by-step guide below will tell you everything you need to know about creating and adding professional subtitles to video with Movie Studio Platinum. At the end, we’ll give you a pro tip for creating flying subtitles which can be made to follow any animation path you want.