Monday, February 9, 2009

Hardubbing/ Encoding Videos a.k.a Adding permanent subtitles to Videos

This tutorial is for adding permanent subtitles to video files. Let's say you download a Korean movie and the subtitle is *softsub, and you found it so troublesome since in certain players, the sub won't come out.

To save yourself from the hassle, you can hardsub your videos and you won't be facing the sub-is not-appearing-on-video anymore.

So how do you hardsub a video?

Installing Virtualdub, Vobsub.
1) Download and install Virtualdub.
2) And then download Vobsub filter 2.3
3) Install Vobsub. During teh installation. Click on the + buttons on pluins and make sure you SELECT Vobsub for Virtualdub and Textsub for Virtualdub and Avisynth.
4) Then select the directory where Virtualdub is stored at.

Hardsubbing
1) Open Virtualdub, Go to File >> Open Your Video.
2) Go to Video >> Filters.
3) Click add and click Load.
4) Browse for the directory where you installed Vobsub (which is in Virtualdub folder)
5) Open textsub2.3 then textsub2.3 will be listed in the list.
6) Click textsub 2.3 and click OK.
7) Then the textsub setting box will pop up. Click open and browse for the subtitle file ( files with .srt .ass . ssa .sub etc)
8) Click OK
9) Go to Video >> Full Processing Mode
10) Set Video >> Compression (select DivX or XVid for HQ quality videos)
11) Finally go to File >> Save as .avi
12) And the video will start hardsubbing.

Happy trying~!!!!

p/s : will edit with download links and screenshots soon. ^^

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