Technological Tools

to Empower your
English Lessons
Eduardo Sagstegui

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Look for this video in Youtube.com and
download it.

2016 President Obama chats with 2009

President Obama

Today, were going to learn how to

SUBTITLE a Youtube video

Subtitling - Basic notions

How many lines should a subtitle contain?

Maximum 2

How long should a subtitle stay on the screen?

Maximum 6 seconds
How many characters per subtitle?
Maximum 37 characters (including blank spaces)
When should the subtitles appear/disappear?
Must be synchronized with what needs to be subtitled (not necessarily a line or
dialogue, but also a poster, letter, etc.)

Where should the subtitles be placed?

In some countries they should be placed in the centre of the screen, vertically, in
others at the bottom of the screen, horizontally

Subtitle Workshop
Its free software
It's one of the most efficient and complete subtitle editing tools
It has an easy access menu
It has a combination of standard and advanced features
It offers velocity and stability, which minimizes the subtitle editing time

SUBTITLE WORKSHOP

1. Creating new subtitles

 Movie menu > Open > select the video file + File menu > New
subtitle

 The desktop will look like this: the video file running on the
black area and the 1st subtitle higlighted in blue

 To edit the subtitles, you must pay attention to the time running on the right side of the screen.
When the 1st speech/text appears on the screen, immediately pause the video and insert the time down on
the Show/Hide boxes and write the text/translation on the Text box

 Everytime you want to insert a new subtitle, press the

Insert key on your keyboard or go to Edit > Insert
Subtitle

Keep doing this until your subtitles are finished and

ready to be saved

Final procedure
After all subtitles are ready to
be saved, go to File > Save or
Save As...
S.W. is able to work with lots of
different types of files, but the
most common are .srt (SubRip)
or .txt

Choose the type of file,

Custom format > Save

2. ALTERING PREVIOUSLY CREATED SUBTITLES

File Menu: Load Subtitle
Choose the subtitle you want to synchronize and choose
Open

If the subtitle and the video are in the same file, the
video will open automatically

 If the video needs to be open separately:

Movie menu > Open and choose the video file

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