I want to translate a video (manually) and subtitle it. I understand how caption files work and can do it by hand, but as I’ve never done it, it seems daunting with a lot of room for error.
I’m wondering if there is a tool to help with this, or just ask, if anyone has any experience with creating captions and what the best practices are.
Note: I do not want to embed the subtitles into the video, I just want a separate file, either .vtt or .srt
Let me dive into software a little bit. I know there is a way to do this in kdenlive, but I’ve never needed it myself. If I don’t come up with something on my own, I’ll try to get you a video tutorial. Also, this is relevant - what software are you using?
I use kdenlive on freebsd, but have no problem using linux for this.
If I were to do it by hand, i’d just use mpv and vi.
This may help (please note that I have only done a cursory scan) - https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?t=13897#p162942
Well, I decided to do it by hand, using the .srt example from the url. But it’s a veeeery slow process.
Ok, I’ve never touched BSD (which makes me a little sad). What you want seems out of my depth, but I’ll do what I can to dig up a tutorial (if it exists).
