Burning Subtitles into a Video
Channel: Elusien
Date: 2022-04-26

How to burn subtitles into a video file, using a subrip (.srt) file and a web app available on the Shotcut Resources section of my website (see below). Burnt-in subtitles are also know as Open-Captioning, as opposed to Closed-Captioning, where a separate subtitle file holds the subtitle information and subtitles can beswitched on/off in the viewer.

Video sharing platforms, like YouTube and Vimeo, allow you to upload subtitle files (e.g. in Subrip format), so you don't necessarily need to burn these into the video.

The app is: https://elusien.co.uk/shotcut/resources/Subtitle_MLT_Generator/Subtitle_MLT_Generator.html

To create the subrip file you can use Aegisub or another app I created here:
https://elusien.co.uk/shotcut/SRT/index.html