It's no secret that subtitles have become an essential part of the video and movie creation process.
For marketers, influencers, and video creators, adding subtitles in iMovie ensures that your video content is easy to understand for your potential audience.
Fortunately, iMovie's user-friendly interface has made the process of adding subtitles easy and straightforward. We'll take you step-by-step through the process on your Mac.
iMovie is the platform designed by Apple to produce, edit and modify your video content. With its many specialized features, Mac owners have a tool where they can express all their creativity.
While the platform does not directly generate subtitles, it does have the "Titles" feature that you can use to add captions, quite pleasing to the eye. Also, you can adjust the font color, size, positioning of subtitles, transitions, and duration of the video. Pretty good, right?
Here are the reasons why you should put subtitles on this platform :
Whatever the reason, there's no doubt that iMovie is a fantastic video editing program that will help you stand out from the crowd. Here's how to use it step by step.
First, a note of clarification: if you have already a subtitle file in SRT or VTT format, you cannot import an SRT or VTT file directly into iMovie. Too bad!
Yet, there are still other ways to get around that:
Here is a description of the last two alternatives.
To add subtitles in iMovie, the only way is to enter them manually in your project interface. You have to insert the different text blocks using the "Titles" function in iMovie :
Professional advice:
The process of adding subtitles to iMovie may depend on the version of iMovie you are using. As for iMovie 11, here's the process :
After editing, click "Play" to preview the subtitles of the video clips. Then you can save and share!
As you can see, the manual method is quite complex. Fortunately, on the internet, there are many solutions that will save you more time. Automatic subtitle generators are especially very handy for getting the job done while giving you the ability to edit and adapt your subtitles.
We will talk here about our solution, Checksub.com. Here's how it works:
To start, log in on the Checksub platform. By registering, you will have direct access to the interface to upload your video.
Select your content and indicate its original language. You can also choose between several languages to make the translation if necessary.
To try the platform, you have 1 hour of video for free. If this is not enough time for your video, you can buy credits at a low price.
The API will then perform the speech recognition and provide you with the result in a few minutes.
When the result is ready, click on the language of your video and access the subtitle editor. You then have a dedicated interface to check the transcription, the translation and also to optimize the synchronization of your subtitles with the audio.
Once you have obtained a result that suits you, you can then insert your subtitles in your video. To do so, press the "Export" button, then press "Export Video".
You can then customize the appearance of your subtitles (size, color, font, positioning…) and upload your video in the format you need.
Now you know how to easily add subtitles to your iMovie videos. Hopefully, Apple will soon create a feature to add subtitles to videos and movies. In the meantime, you can add subtitles to your video by simply following the steps mentioned above.
We hope this guide will help you make awesome videos for your audience!
