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Friday, January 8, 2016

Free Way to Add SRT Subtitles to MP4 Video

Movies or videos in MP4 are universal nowadays. We can easily watch movies or videos online. However, we may meet language trouble due to the differences of languages. In this case, subtitles of the native language will be badly needed. If there are no subtitles of the videos, how to add subtitles to MP4 files? The following article will introduce a nice MP4 Subtitle Adder as well as a step by step guide to add subs to MP4 files.

As for SRT subtitles, you can Download External SRT Subtitles or Create Your Own Subtitles. Here we give some suggestions in details below:

Download SRT subtitles: You can put "movie title" + "your preferred language" + "subtitles" as the search strings and select the subtitle file saved in .srt for an effective SRT subtitle file searching. Alternatively, finding the needed subtitles in .srt format from those popular subtitle download sites like Moviesubtitles.org is also a practical way.

Edit or make your own .srt file: Here we take Notepad as an example. Just open Notepad, create the subtitles you like in the text editor, click menu File->Save As; change the subtitle file name based on your name of video file and save it in .srt format.

Tips: The SRT subtitles need to contain the following parts while creating subtitles:

  1. The number showing which subtitle it is in the sequence.
  2. The time that the subtitle should appear and disappear on the screen.
  3. The subtitle itself.
  4. A blank line indicating the begin of a new subtitle.
How to Add Subtitles to MP4 Video File

Pavtube Video Converter / Mac Version is the professional MP4 Subtitle Adder that can easily add various .srt subtitles to MP4 files. In addition, it can also support adding subtitles to many other video formats including MKV, AVI, MPG, WMV, MOV, 3GP, VOB, FLV, MXF, AVCHD, VOB and etc.

Besides acting as the MP4 Subtitle Adder, Pavtube Video Converter is a powerful video converter. It can convert more than 150 video and audio formats with superb quality. What is more, it is a good video editing tool that can trim videos, crop videos, add watermark to videos, merge or join videos together, split videos by chapters, adjust audio channels, and remove black bars and more.

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First free download and install Pavtube Video Converter on your Mac or Windows, and then launch it. Now just follow the step by step guide to to add .srt subtitles to MP4 video.

Step 1. Click the "Add File" button to load the MP4 files. You can also drag and drop MP4 files to the interface of the software.



Step 2. Add subtitles to MP4 videos

Click “Edit” or the pencil icon  to switch to the editing interface, where you can find multiple editing functions and “Subtitle” is just one of them. Click the “Subtitle” tab and check the “Enable” box to allow you to add SRT/ASS/SSA subtitles to MP4 videos. Then Click “Browse” to find and import the downloaded SRT/ASS/SSA subtitles.



Kindly note: Pavtube Video Converter only supports SRT/ASS/SSA subtitles, and make sure that the subtitle file and your MP4 video files are kept in the same folder sharing the same name.

Step 3. Start inserting subtitles to MP4 video

Go back to the main UI and click “Convert” to start inserting SRT/ASS/SSA subtitles to your MP4 videos. If you don’t want to keep the original MP4 format, just click the format bar to choose the output video format you want before conversion.

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