
We’ll go into the reasons why you should add subtitles or captions to your videos, as well as information on how to add them. If you’re making videos for the web, you don’t have the same requirements but there are many other benefits to subtitling your videos. Laws now require that all video broadcast on television in the United States is closed captioned. That was 20 years ago and the world has gotten a lot smaller since then. It wasn’t always clear on how to line up the characters with the dialog on-screen. I remember the most difficult languages for me to work with were Chinese and Arabic. I used to work in corporate video and we’d often have to subtitle a video for foreign markets. Social Media Platforms ( YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook & Instagram).

Creating subtitles in your NLE (FCPX, Premiere Pro, Resolve, Wirecast, Edius Pro).The Difference between Closed Captions and Subtitles.

