How to add subtitles to a movie with QuickTime Player?

If you create videos for the hard of hearing or for audiences who speak more than one language, you'll need to insert subtitles. It relatively easy to add subtitles to a movie with QuickTime Player.

QuickTime player provides one of the best solutions for digital media. QuickTime Player is able for handling various formats of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and interactive panoramic images. With it you can easily contact with the world.

Guide on how to add subtitles to a movie with QuickTime Player.

Step 1: Create a text file with your subtitles in any text editor. Use the return key to separate subtitles and save the file in TXT format. Open the text file in QuickTime Pro, select all of the frames and copy the text to the clipboard. Choose "Add to Movie" from the Edit menu to paste the text track into the movie timeline.

Step 2: Export the new text track. Choose "Text to Text" for the Export format pop-up menu. Click on the Options button and select "Show Text, Descriptors, and Time." Delete the old text track. Select "Show Movie Properties" from the Window menu. Select the text track and click "Delete".

Step 3: Open the exported file in any word processor or text editor. Queue your movie to the point where you want each subtitle to stop playing. Type the time into the time stamp on the line immediately following the subtitle text. When the times are added to the file, save it.

Step 4: Add the subtitles to the movie. Open the text file in QuickTime Player, select the entire timeline and copy it to the clipboard. Go to the movie file and return the playback head to the beginning of the movie. Use "Add to Movie" to paste the new text file into the movie.

Step 5: Export the movie. Choose "iPod" from the Export format settings. QuickTime will flatten the movie and burn the subtitles directly onto the video (which means they can no longer be edited as text). Save your original file in QuickTime format in case you need to edit or add additional subtitle tracks.

That is all the steps on how to add subtitles to a movie with QuickTime Player. Once you have done all the above mentioned steps, you have add QuickTime movies subtitles successfully.