Re: Burn caption into video

On 10/15/24 09:56 AM, Alan Browne wrote:

On 2024-10-15 09:12, Oliver wrote:

What's the best way on Windows to offline embed the text in an SRT
companion file to an MP4 video before uploading a short video clip to a web
site?
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I made a short (ten second) video with my phone to upload to a web site.
I tried a few methods to remove the exif metadata which probably worked.
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Then I created a simple SRT text file with the desired captions.
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00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000
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This is the first line of text.
This is the second line of text
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Then I tried to burn in (embed, hardcode, merge) that SRT into the MP4 so
that I only upload a single MP4 with a caption on the 2nd half of the MP4.
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I tried Handbrake, VLC, MkvToMp4, VidCoder, Shotcut & a few others (all of
which failed but probably they failed mostly due to my own user error or
from my following of bad AI-generated instructions found in my searches).
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Given that it's not as simple as it may seem, what method on Windows do you
use to burn an SRT file into a short video prior to upload to a web site?

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There may be a way in exiftool.
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Da Vinci Resolve will do this, but it's a steep learning curve - though there is probably a YouTube out there for it.
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Da Vinci Resolve is free for non-commercial output.
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Why not just use some video editor and overlay the text?  Then save the video and upload.