How to add subtitles to AVI video – A tutorial

Posted on February 27, 2008 at 6:27 am

Recently, I downloaded a video off the Internet that was in Hindi and needed to add English subtitles to the video so that I could share it with some friends. I checked out Windows Movie Maker, which is installed by default in Windows XP SP2 and has the ability to overlay text on video, but the feature set was very poor and it was nearly impossible to control where the subtitles showed up, for how long, and in what kind of format.

Another problem with Windows Movie Maker is that you can’t create subtitles that show up as an option in DVD players, it’s either there or not. After doing some research, I found that the best way to add subtitles to a video semi-professionally is to use a combination of programs, one that specializes in creating high-quality subtitles that match your video exactly and another program that takes a subtitle file and a video and combine them together.

So here’s a guide that will teach you how to add subtitles to videos for free and hopefully not make you completely frustrated! As a prerequisite, you should have some basic technical knowledge of computers and software.

To get started, you first need to download and install several applications. It may seem like a lot of applications, but anywhere tutorial you search for adding subtitles to videos will include most of these apps. Luckily, there is one program that combines many of the separate apps into one, thus making it a lot simpler to use.

Download and unzip Subtitle Workshop

Download and installed Auto Gordian Knot

When you install Auto Gordian Knot, you’ll notice it brings up several install wizards, each corresponding to a separate application. Just keep installing! Don’t worry, the apps are not very large and do not load when you computer starts or anything like that.

Subtitle Workshop only needs to be unzipped to run, there is no install. Just double click on the SubtiteWorkshop4 icon. This is the first application we will start with. Subtitle Workshop will allow us to add as many subtitles as we want into our video and save that file out as a separate file (our video will remain unaltered at this point).

After you open Subtitle Workshop, click on File and choose New Subtitle.

Then go to the Video menu option and choose Open. Choose your video and click Ok and you video will appear in the top section and start playing. Go ahead and move the slide bar to the location where you want your first subtitle to appear and then click on the No. 1 subtitle in the center box.

To add your subtitle, begin typing your text into the text box at the bottom. You should see it appear on the video as you type. Now when you add subtitles, you’ll see that there is a Show and Hide section visible in the above screenshot. You have to type in the exact times that you want the subtitles to appear, it does not just pick it up from the location that you are in the video.

In order to get the current frame that you are in while playing the video, look at the right side of the screen below the video. You’ll see those numbers just like they are in the Show/Hide boxes. Just take the value from the top one and add that into the Show box. For example, I want my first subtitle to come up 5 seconds into the video and last 5 seconds.

So I can either type in 00:00:05:000 into the Show box or I can get down to a very specific frame by typing moving the slide bar to the exact location (or pausing at the exact time) and then copying the value shown at the top right into my box. Then simply adjust the Duration value to however long you want the subtitles to remain on the screen! It is defaulted to one, so just change it to 5 or whatever.

Once you have put all of your subtitles in, go ahead and click on File and then Save. In the Save as type box, scroll down to SubRip (.srt) and save the file in that format.

Now close out Subtitle Workshop and open up Auto Gordian Knot. For the Input File, browse and select your video. Next, press CNTRL + F8 and you’ll see a new option appear called External Subs. Go ahead and browse and select the SRT file we just saved out.

Now choose Target quality for Output size and choose a quality that suits you. I left it at 75 percent. Next click on Advanced Settings and choose XviD or DivX for the codec. If the process does not work for one, use the other codec and try again.

Now click Add Job and then click Start to get your subtitles added on to your video!

The Log window on the left will detail out all of the processing that is going on with your file. It will also auto-load all of those other applications that it needs in order to burn your subtitles onto the video file. When you do this for the first time, you need to watch out for some license agreement that pops up and accept it otherwise it seems like the program is just stuck, when it’s really not! The program is very fast and you’ll see the Job Finished message when it’s complete.

And that’s it! As if that was very easy! Hopefully, with a little bit of playing around, you were able to get it to work. If not, start up a thread on this post and I’ll answer any comments I can! Enjoy your new subtitled video!

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72 Responses to “How to add subtitles to AVI video – A tutorial”

Louise said on : March 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 am

I used the AGK, and at the end of it, it has an error, here is the log, could you please help??? Thanks!

[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] AutoGK 2.45
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Job started.
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Input file: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\桌面\Long\Home.avi
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Input codec: DivX
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Source duration: 3mn 44s 457ms
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Output file: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\桌面\Long\Home_agk.avi
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Output codec: XviD
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Audio 1: 128 Kbps CBR MP3 2ch
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Subtitles: from external file: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\桌面\Long\Home.srt
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Format: AVI
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Target quality: 75%
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Audio 1 settings: CBR MP3 with bitrate: 128Kbps
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Started encoding.
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Source resolution: 320×240
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Source fps: 29.917
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:21] Analyzing source.
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:56] Source has percentage of interlacing in motion areas: 0.27
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:56] Source has percentage of telecined patterns: 0.26
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:56] Source has percentage of progressive patterns: 99.74
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:56] Source has percentage of interlaced patterns: 0.00
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:56] Source is considered to be progressive.
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:56] Output will contain 6715 frames
[2008/3/2 下午 11:41:56] Demuxing audio.
*************************************
EXCEPTION: There was an error during audio encoding.
*************************************
[2008/3/2 下午 11:42:07] Job finished. Total time: 45 seconds

matt said on : April 6th, 2008 at 2:59 am

Try starting over, you probably have your times incorrect. start from scratch and be very careful!

bobby said on : April 6th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

VirtualDub Error

Fast write stream: couldn’t open “…..” : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by an other process…

Why????
plz help

kenan said on : April 12th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

im having a little problem with this. As soon as i try to open the video the whole program (subtitle workshop 4) closes out. Is there a solution to this problem?

damaster said on : May 2nd, 2008 at 6:22 am

haha, lol. Just put the subtitle file and the .avi file in a special map. There have to be nothing in it only the movie and the subtitles. Be sure you named both files the same. Download WINAvi Video Converter and crack it and http://www.altavista.com.
Open WINAVI Video converter and press the biggest round button. This action will lead you to the next screen. There you can choose where your output directory. And the rest of the settings. Then just press convert (Downleft of the dialog.
Have some time, mostly 15/30 minutes. and ya job’s done! BTW, Subtitle workshop isn’t required but it very helpfull if the subtitles are not timed correctly.

np,
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J L Narayanan said on : May 11th, 2008 at 2:07 am

Thanks for useful tips to add English subtitles to the video and it works out to be fine. Is their any software to create subtitles in regional languages like Hindi, Tamil,Telugu, Malayalam, etc

Angie said on : May 14th, 2008 at 11:02 am

With this program can you convert chinese subtitles into english subtitles??

Claudia said on : June 9th, 2008 at 11:18 am

I did everything as you told me and at the end it tells me the audio is not supported.

Can you tell me why?

Chinick_1 said on : June 9th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

I already downloaded a avi file and separated is the subtitles file (srt).

May I with this software integrate the srt file to the original avi file?

Thanks and regards for any advice….

dny said on : June 28th, 2008 at 12:57 am

the video does not start when i open it with subtitle workshop

Marburg said on : June 28th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

Very usefull post. Running on Vista it seemed that everything was going fine, but not processing at all!

Aborting the convertion process, an EXCEPTION message was driven to log window. A especified log file was not found(./agk_tmp/interlace.log), simply creating + renaming an empty txt file resolved the problem.

Thanks a lot!

Formula1 said on : July 10th, 2008 at 7:41 am

can i make the output file the same size as the original without loseeing Q of pictute??

Bobo said on : July 23rd, 2008 at 4:06 am

Encoding the subtitles to the video doesn’t work for me… It tells me “Unsupported audio type”. I have no idea what to do about it. Here’s the log:

====================================================
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] AutoGK 2.45
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] OS: Windows Vista (6.0.6001).2
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Job started.
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Input file: C:\Users\Bobo\Desktop\get_video.avi
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Input codec: DivX 4
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Source duration: 7mn 19s 440ms
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Output file: C:\Users\Bobo\Desktop\get_video_agk.avi
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Output codec: XviD
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Audio 1: 96 Kbps MPEG-2 Audio layer 3 2ch
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Subtitles: from external file: C:\Users\Bobo\Desktop\get_video.srt
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Format: AVI
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Target quality: 100%
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Audio 1 settings: VBR MP3 with average bitrate: 128Kbps
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Started encoding.
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Source resolution: 320×240
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Source fps: 25
[23/07/2008 11:04:18] Analyzing source.
[23/07/2008 11:05:00] Source is considered to be progressive.
[23/07/2008 11:05:00] Output will contain 10986 frames
[23/07/2008 11:05:00] Demuxing audio.
*************************************
EXCEPTION: Unsupported audio type.
*************************************
[23/07/2008 11:05:00] Job finished. Total time: 41 seconds
====================================================

Mason said on : July 23rd, 2008 at 9:32 am

While VideoDub was working, I received a popup notice saying “Video Compression Error: The Source Image format is not acceptable. (error code -2).

What happened? :S

Bobo said on : July 24th, 2008 at 10:33 am

I have found a better way to insert subtitles than the one described in this article.

Watch this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O1ftKTSprw

I have tried it and it WORKS!

Cheers everyone

purushotham said on : August 10th, 2008 at 9:03 am

Thank you very much. it was succesful. GOD bless you.

Steamer said on : August 16th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

Please I hope someone can help me.

I do the proccess but there is a problem, The sound and the video are out of sync.

Somehow the Sound appears after the video.

The subtitles are there, but they are in sync with the audio, not the video.

I realize that there is a problem with the encoding of the file and I tried the first three options on “Output Audio type”

-Auto
-Original
-VBR

I’m still yet to try with CBR, but I think the same will appear.

I’m encoding video with Xvid.

PLEASE help will be appreciated it

Razvan said on : August 30th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Hello ! Thank you so much for this tutorial. Everything worked out great for me. Good job man. Thanks for all the work that you put into this tutorial !
Watch my subtitled video here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2VQzqNGEg0

sean said on : October 29th, 2008 at 3:12 am

What if I already have the subtitles of a movie in SUB format? How do I encode it in that case?

Henry said on : November 5th, 2008 at 12:00 am

The srt* can’t decode Chinese character. After the sub was added to the video, the characters can not be displayed properly, what can I do? Thanks

Sara said on : November 20th, 2008 at 5:00 am

Hi! At the end of all the steps, I get this message:

[20-11-2008 9:37:36] AutoGK 2.45
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Job started.
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Input file: C:\Documents and Settings\sazevedo\Desktop\Explicacoes – um mercado na sombra.avi
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Input codec: S-Mpeg 4 v2
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Source duration: 9mn 28s 368ms
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Output file: C:\Documents and Settings\sazevedo\Desktop\Explicacoes – um mercado na sombra_agk.avi
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Output codec: XviD
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Audio 1: 64 Kbps MPEG-1/2 L1 1ch
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Subtitles: from external file: C:\Documents and Settings\sazevedo\Desktop\teste1.srt
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Format: AVI
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Target quality: 75%
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Audio 1 settings: Auto
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Started encoding.
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Source resolution: 320×240
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Source fps: 29,97
[20-11-2008 9:37:36] Analyzing source.
[20-11-2008 9:44:37] Source has percentage of interlacing in motion areas: 6,51
[20-11-2008 9:44:37] Source has percentage of telecined patterns: 0,67
[20-11-2008 9:44:37] Source has percentage of progressive patterns: 91,76
[20-11-2008 9:44:37] Source has percentage of interlaced patterns: 7,57
[20-11-2008 9:44:37] Source is considered to be interlaced.
[20-11-2008 9:44:37] Output will contain 17034 frames
[20-11-2008 9:44:37] Demuxing audio.
*************************************
EXCEPTION: Unsupported audio type.
*************************************
[20-11-2008 9:44:37] Job finished. Total time: 7 minutes 1 second.

And no video is created. If I don’t check the box – audio track – in step 2, a video is created, I do not get this message, but (of course) I have no sound. So I know the software is working, but I am not able to produce a normal video with sound and subtitles. Can you please help me?
Thank you very much!

Jim said on : December 1st, 2008 at 2:37 pm

I can’t browse my subtitles…

shadereapper said on : December 16th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

how can i add subtitles to an avi vid that i downloaded, but its in japanese an i dont know japanese?plz help

Ritu Bhanot said on : December 20th, 2008 at 7:52 am

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the tutorial.

I have a problem:

The video and audio are out of sync. I don’t know what to do.

Could you please explain.

Thanks in advance,

Best regards,

satish r said on : December 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm

hey sara try changing the audio types in the ‘advance settings’ menu …..you may get your audio working!!!

analia said on : December 23rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm

first i only got the first subtitle and i have found a way how to get the rest of them but its going to take forever me to do it , how did you do it ?

Baha said on : December 26th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

It was very helpful, thanks a lot…

Elis said on : January 24th, 2009 at 3:54 am

thank you so much! I was looking for this for months!

Eleonora said on : January 28th, 2009 at 7:22 am

Thank you very much for this helpful post. Really easy to add subtitles with this software!!Thank you

David said on : January 30th, 2009 at 5:43 pm

Wow, I actually got this to work (tested it on a short AVI file)! The subtitles show up on the final product, but unlike the preview in SubtitleWorkshop, without any attributes (i.e. positioning, italics, color etc). Can anyone let me know what I did wrong?

albi said on : January 31st, 2009 at 1:19 am

thank you so much!…I was soooo frustated after sooo many downloads and this is the only thing that worked for me.

Sayak said on : January 31st, 2009 at 3:52 pm

Thank you. The first part called “Subtitle Workshop” worked as expected. I was translating Shah Rukh Khan’s Josh from Hindi to English. I’ll test the second software again tomorrow and let you know.

The only problem with Subtitle Workshop is it’s a bit straining on the eyes since the command menus are spread so far apart on your screen that you must have a good hand-eye coordination or you’ll just screw it up!

In all, a very good software.

Tracy said on : February 7th, 2009 at 6:44 am

Thanks a lot. Id like to remove the red background from the subtitles though… does it do it automatically? Where are the options for foreground/background/size of the fonts?

Tracy said on : February 7th, 2009 at 7:07 am

Allow me to answer my own question…
The red background is only temporary! It actually shows up on screen as White on clear.

Also… if you only want temporary subtitles, you can download and use VLC player, open your avi in it and while the movie is playing, DRAG the .srt file onto the screen It will automatically sync with the video and when your done, the Vid is still in the original condition without subs.

This is all I needed really so Im happy. Thank you!

MARCE said on : February 14th, 2009 at 11:17 pm

I followed all the steps just like you said, everything is fine at the beginning of video, but in the middle the subtitles suddenly disappear. I´d like to know what could be the reason, is it possible that my auto gordian is not working correctly? please answer me. thanks

John said on : February 20th, 2009 at 10:41 am

This worked an absolute dream. Thanks very much for the tutorial. I will be using it again and I have saved it into my bookmarks for future use.

Kathy said on : February 21st, 2009 at 2:16 pm

I have gone through this process and for some reason, AGK is removing the audio from my video. Any clues on this one? I didn’t receive any error messages and the file created fine, but there is no sound. HELP!

Tosh said on : February 23rd, 2009 at 7:19 pm

Thank you very much, well written and easy to follow. I just added english subs for the first part of Valkyrie and it’s absolutely perfect. I prefer to only have english subs for the German part of the movie and this allows me to do this.

Titus Menezes said on : March 9th, 2009 at 4:34 am

Hi

was using add subtitles to AVI video the first time. I succeeded in creating .srt file which had the subtitles

when I tried to prepare the final video following to the T all instructions the final video came up with duplicate titles as a result the text looked garbled.

can you suggest me what could be the problem?

Titus

Moon River said on : May 7th, 2009 at 8:43 pm

Thanks for sharing…I also want to share a cool guide for Mac users: How to add subtitles to AVI videos on Mac:

dvdburnermacosx.com/tutorial/how-to-add-subtitle-to-dvd-on-mac.html#129

Doug said on : May 10th, 2009 at 9:07 am

Thank you ever so much for your advice. I opened an srt file which I had no clue what language it was in. I loaded it into the program you suggested and used the auto language detect function to find and translate the subtitles…(See PS for comments on this next point) I then saved the output across the top of the existing srt file and now when i play the movie the subtitles are now in English…
Thank you so much again…

Also I am not technically minded so for me to do this was great and thanks to your clear instructions..!!!

Kindest Regards

Doug

The only slight difficulty i experienced was in saving my new translation I obviously saved it with a slightly different name to distinguish it from the original.. You need to name it exactly the same as the original for VLC player to pick it out and be able to read it.. However with this done it all works fine… Best Regards

jeff said on : May 21st, 2009 at 5:45 am

Man this guide was great, it all worked out for me. I was able to add subtitles easily. thanks!

Hasuki said on : June 2nd, 2009 at 4:07 am

Hi thanks for the clear instructions! However, could you add more information about how to customize the font of the subtitles?

rachel said on : June 3rd, 2009 at 12:47 am

hi! i have a problem with this application…when i open the avi video, it does not play…then a box shows up telling me “”’ has changed..do you want to save changes?” if i click yes, it will tell me “cannot render media” and if i click no, it will also tell me “cannot render media”…can you explain why this is happening? please

aidan said on : June 7th, 2009 at 6:50 pm

Thanks man, this was really helpful. Was able to add subtitles to a video I have been making.

Hope said on : June 14th, 2009 at 7:55 am

Hi, everything works fine, except the audio. There is no sound at all. I really need it urgently, can you please tell me the solution to it? Thanks!

Mario Kolovrat said on : June 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 am

Hello

having the same problem like one of previous quiestions ‘21′

[22.6.2009 16:23:16] AutoGK 2.55
[22.6.2009 16:23:16] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[22.6.2009 16:23:16] Job started.
[22.6.2009 16:23:16] Source resolution: 704×288
[22.6.2009 16:23:16] Source fps: 23,976
[22.6.2009 16:23:16] Output will contain 235008 frames
[22.6.2009 16:23:16] Preparing subtitles for preview.
[22.6.2009 16:23:17] Job finished. Total time: 0 seconds

And no video is created. Can you please help me?
Thank you very much!-

Mario Kolovrat said on : June 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 am

Sorry in previous massage I didn’t send you whole report

[22.6.2009 16:22:02] AutoGK 2.55
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Job started.
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Input file: C:\Documents and Settings\mario\My Documents\Downloads\XYZ\XYZ.avi
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Input codec: XviD
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Source duration: 2h 43mn 21s 802ms
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Output file: C:\Documents and Settings\mario\My Documents\Downloads\XYZ\XYZ_agk.avi
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Output codec: XviD
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Audio 1: 128 Kbps MPEG-1/2 L3 2ch
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Subtitles: from external file: C:\Documents and Settings\mario\My Documents\XYZ\XYZ.srt
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Format: AVI
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Target quality: 100%
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Audio 1 settings: Auto
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Started encoding.
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Source resolution: 704×288
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Source fps: 23,976
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Output will contain 235008 frames
[22.6.2009 16:22:02] Demuxing audio.
*************************************
EXCEPTION: Unsupported audio type.

Itsuki said on : July 8th, 2009 at 2:15 pm

why do i get a text document when the i convert soft subs into hard subs?

john said on : July 29th, 2009 at 11:20 am

how do you install divX?

dave said on : July 29th, 2009 at 3:22 pm

how can i adjust the font size? it is so big on the screen? i dont see an option for this. thanks for any help!

HImanshu said on : August 4th, 2009 at 2:45 am

Just go to subscene.com, then download the best match subtitle from that site of ur movie

Example –
Name of Movie-The Hangover (2009) DVDSCR-MAXSPEED filename.avi
Name of subtitle-The Hangover (2009) DVDSCR-MAXSPEED filename.srt

Then open VLC media player, the file will start automatically with the subtitles.

vic said on : August 10th, 2009 at 11:02 am

i downloaded auto gordian knot already and it did not open. need some help!

Craig said on : September 14th, 2009 at 1:25 am

If you already have the subs, instead of stuffing around with all that, because AGK has to recode movie, so you loose quality, use subscene to get the subs, then use program called AVI-Mux Gui. It rewrites the subs into the avi stream without recoding, takes about 90 seconds to subtitle a 2.5hr movie.

Manoj said on : September 22nd, 2009 at 9:35 am

Thanks so much!! Adding subtitles to my videos was easy!

Ashley said on : October 14th, 2009 at 9:37 am

Everything works fine but I have a little problem. When I open the file, for the first 5 seconds or so, the title of the video is overlapped on the subtitles so I can’t read it. Solution? :/

fanny said on : November 6th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

When I open the avi with subtitle workshop 4, it said ‘ cannot render media ‘, what can i do?

Mindy said on : November 29th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

Hello! Is there any way that I can make the size of the subtitles smaller? I don’t see an option for it…

josé maría said on : December 7th, 2009 at 3:03 pm

I had this problem during the adding, can anybody help me please?

[07/12/2009 14:58:10] AutoGK 2.55
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Job started.
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Input file: C:\Documents and Settings\José María\Mis documentos\Mis vídeos\Movies\Harry Potter 6 Half Blood Prince (2009).avi
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Input codec: XviD
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Source duration: 2h 18mn 18s 80ms
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Output file: C:\Documents and Settings\José María\Mis documentos\Mis vídeos\Movies\Harry Potter 6 Half Blood Prince (2009)_agk.avi
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Output codec: XviD
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Audio 1: 128 Kbps MP2 2ch
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Subtitles: from external file: C:\Documents and Settings\José María\Mis documentos\Mis vídeos\Movies\Harry.Potter.The.Half.Blood.Prince.TS-Screener.Xvid.Mp3.Espanol.srt
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Format: AVI
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Target size: 1400Mb
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Audio 1 settings: Auto
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Started encoding.
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Source resolution: 720×298
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Source fps: 25
[07/12/2009 14:58:10] Analyzing source.
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EXCEPTION: Cannot open file “C:\Documents and Settings\José María\Mis documentos\Mis vídeos\Movies\agk_tmp\interlace.log”. The system can´t find the specific file *************************************
[07/12/2009 14:58:29] Job finished. Total time: 19 seconds
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Ron said on : December 18th, 2009 at 5:45 am

Thanks for all your pains to make this available – Everything seemed to work, while it was going, yet it didn’t create an output file, as there was an exception in the log saying :

18/12/2009 13:35:08] Format: AVI
[18/12/2009 13:35:08] Target size: 1400Mb
[18/12/2009 13:35:08] Started encoding.
[18/12/2009 13:35:08] Source resolution: 0×0
[18/12/2009 13:35:08] Source fps: 0
[18/12/2009 13:35:08] Analyzing source.
[18/12/2009 13:36:15] Source is considered to be progressive.
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EXCEPTION: No frames are found.
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[18/12/2009 13:36:15] Job finished. Total time: 1 minute, 7 seconds
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Any advice will be appreciated.
Peace!

ky said on : December 18th, 2009 at 8:16 am

How come i cannot play the video? A box comes up to tell me the file doesn’t exist when I do the first few steps?

Lore said on : December 19th, 2009 at 2:51 pm

Thank you very much, it worked perfectly!!!

You rock!!

Jerman said on : December 24th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

My question is, how can I get permanent subtitles in the video files that I’m converting and not just show up when I have subtitles turned on in the player . I want the subtitles to be in the video and show regardless of what ever player I use.

Someone has got to know how this is accomplished.

joshua said on : December 30th, 2009 at 5:56 am

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to add subtitles to an MKV file? Thank you…

Slayer61 said on : January 2nd, 2010 at 10:53 am

Hi,

I followed every step of your guide and it worked. But near the end of the movie the audio cuts off. There is no sound anymore. Did i do something wrong, even though i followed the guide perfectly. Or do you know what’s the problem?

-Cavalli

johnny said on : January 2nd, 2010 at 9:01 pm

hi, i’ve downloaded everything and installed it and then when i opened up subtitle workshop4 and clicked new subtitles then went to open up a video, it says “FILE ** has changed. Do you want to save the changes?.” then i said yes and tried to save it, it says “File doesn’t exists!” i dont get whats wrong..

wiki said on : January 13th, 2010 at 7:44 am

i did every step without any problems, but in the preview there is no sound, and when i wanna open the video there is only black background, no subs no sound, no picture.

Jepsar said on : January 13th, 2010 at 1:23 pm

Works perfect. Thanks for the tutorial!

Kei said on : January 18th, 2010 at 5:49 am

Hey~this is awesome! I got everything to work well…BUT NOW I NEED HELP! I’M TRYING TO ADD A JOB BUT IT WON’T LET ME CLICK ON IT!!!! Can someone help?

Blackjack said on : January 30th, 2010 at 11:13 am

Hy
this tutorial was really helpfull, but i seem to have a problem. I am trying to integrate in a video file a romanian subtitle. the original avi file has no subtitle integrated in it. this is dome ok, but with a little out of sync problem usin a srt file. on top of this, it also integrates in the new video file the english subtitle, which is kind of odd and frustrating. Advise on the matther please.

Bahic said on : February 3rd, 2010 at 5:34 am

For me it takes to looong at least 30 minutes to finish! VirtualDub is the one taking it very slooow! Anything I can do to speed it up?