Creating Subtitles for Films

Course details

What is the course about?

Learn how to make subtitles for your films with commonly available tools such as MS Office, YouTube and GoogleDocs. Upload your subtitles to video sharing websites, translate them into various languages, create a subtitle track for the disc versions of your movie.

More importantly, the course is about understanding the thought process for subtitle creation and relationships between the tools. The course is not about learning how to use the tools extensively.

Expected level of knowledge before taking the course

Basic functional knowledge of

1. MS Office - Excel and Word

2. YouTube - Uploading videos

3. GoogleDocs - Creating your own Google Drive and spreadsheets in GoogleDocs

What kind of materials are included?

All the course material is in the form of short videos of screen captures.

Course Structure

The course is divided into 5 sections as mentioned below. Each section has a group of videos.

1. What are captions or subtitles?

2. Preparation

3. Formatting

4. Upload-Fix-Download

5. Translate-Post