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Updated 02/01/2013

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Permanent Subtitles Guide

This guide explains step by step how to embed or paste subtitles directly into your AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.) video file permanently. The

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Also, many DVD players do not support external subtitle files, in this case you would prefer to embed your subtitles in your video.

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Step 1: Install the subtitler filter

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After you have downloaded the VirtualDub Subtitler Filter, copy subtitler.vdf into the PLUGINS folder under the VirtualDub program directory. If

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The above picture is an example of the VirtualDuband its Plugins folder structure.}

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Step 2: Edit the subtitle file

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Even if your subtitles are already in SSA (SubStation Alpha) format, this step is required to customize the subtitles aspect. We'll use DivXLand
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Open the subtitles with DivXLand Media Subtitler from the File menu.

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Then go to Settings > Format Settings. In the popup dialog select the SubStation Alpha format.
Configure the format with a clear font such as Trebuchet MS and a font size of 36pt. Here you can also change the subtitles alignment and
margins if desired.

After that you can save the subtitles from File > Save As. The following dialog will popup:

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Make sure to select the SubStation Alpha [SSA] format and click OK to save the subtitles.

Step 3: Apply the subtitles with VirtualDub

After you have created your SSA subtitles, start VirtualDub and open the target movie. We'll recompress the movie with the subtitles in this last
step. Note: There is no way to apply the subtitles without recompressing the video.
Go to the Video menu and select Filters...

Click the Add... button.

Select the subtitler filter and clickOK.

After you click OK, the Subtitler Configuration dialog should appear. Click the "..." button and browse to the SSA file you have previously saved
with the SubStation Alpha editor.
If you want to use the original subtitle file word wrapping mode, select Manual word wrapping. You can also use the Automatic or Smart word
wrapping modes, but when playing the video and applying Pan&Scan feature, long subtitle lines won't fit the video viewable area.

Click Show Preview to see how your subtitles will appear in the encoded video. Below you can see the result of our subtitles with the settings
specified earlier in DivXLand Media Subtitler.

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To scroll faster here, hold down SHIFT while moving the video position slider.
If you are satisfied with the results, proceed by closing the subtitler and Filters dialogs.

Step 4: Save and encode the video file

To save the video file with the embedded captions, we will have to recompress the video and leave audio stream as is.
Under Video select Full Processing Mode, and under Audio select Direct Stream Copy.
If you want the output file to match a specific file size, you will need DivXLand Bitrate Calculator to calculate the video bitrate.
Go to Video > Compression, and choose the DivX or XviD codec that you have installed. Click the Configure button to setup the codec.

Finally go to File > Save As AVI... and enter a file name for the output video. The encoding process will start and your output video will include the
subtitles permanently.
Note: Please notice that this encoding process may take several hours to finish the conversion, therefore it is recommended to do this process at
night or whenever the computer is not in use.

Tags: avi, caption, divx, embed, permantent, srt, subrip, subtitles, virtualdub

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21 Comments

Jonathan

There's not even any VirtualDub folder in the DivX folder, even though I have
VirtualDub.

Beans

I have installed Divx and still cannot locate its codec when going to compress.

Loveb333r

hi.. im stuck at step 3..

i cant add the subtitler.. and yes , i did clopy to plugin allready..
thanks :)

Andrew Strachan

hi I have done everything as described but the resulting file has no subtitles on
it, what could the cause be?

PiLLaZ

does it support MKV?

Angelica

Thank you very very much!!! This is sooooooo helpful! I cann finaly watch my
downloaded movies on my TV now!!! :DDD

waffle

Hey, when I try to save the subtitle as .ssa format it saves it as .sub format and
I checked and ideed I choose the SubStation Alpha.

aab44

Same issue: when I try to save the subtitle as .ssa format it saves it as
.sub format ; it doesn't save .ssa !!!
could you please help

Andrs Zsgon

Make sure yo use File > Save As and choose the

SubStationAlpha format when saving, this will save the subtitle as
SSA.

Sotos-an

I am stuck at Part 3. I can do all else, but when I try to access a movie it says "
Couldn't locate decompressor for format XVID. What do I do? Please help.

Andrs Zsgon

Install the XviD codec that you can download from the Downloads page,
Video Codecs category, and retry.

Sotos-an

Hmmm even though it worked for another movie, it still won't

work for my desired one... However, it now says "no audio
decompressor could be found to decompress the source audio
format. (source format tag:2000) It seems you will have to help
me again... Thanks!

Pokemonaddict164

can't open the target video in virtual dub.. tried converting it mpg, mp4, and avi
but it still won't open. this error keep on showing up: "MPG Import filter: invalid
pack at position 3: marker bit not set; possibly MPEG-2 stream"

Andrs Zsgon

To open MPEG or MPEG-2 files, you must use VirtualDubMPEG2.

simplebat

thanks for the guide, but i have 1 question. when i finished the movie was 104
gb o_0 is it possible to get it to 2 gb?:P

Andrs Zsgon

Dear user, the excessive filesize is because you have selected the

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