Auto subtitles for videos
Auto generate subtitles for videos using CloudStudio's speech-to-text AI or upload and edit your own SRT file.
Watch the short video tutorial above, or read on!
Multiple ways to add subtitles to your videos
Adding subtitles to videos is very easy with CloudStudio and can be done in many ways.
- You can auto generate subtitles using speech-to-text AI available in CloudStudio.
- You can upload your own SRT file, if you have one, to CloudStudio.
- You can manually type the subtitles and put time ranges for them in CloudStudio.
To create a video with subtitles follow the steps below.
1. Start a project and choose the canvas aspect
You have to pick the video canvas aspect depending on the platfrom you are going to share the video
on. If you audience is expected to watch the video on desktop then pick horizontal aspect (16:9),
otherwise pick vertical aspect (9:16) for mobile viewers.
2. Upload your video
Press the upload files button or drop your video into the left pane.
3a. Auto generate subtitles with speech-to-text AI
To auto generate the subtitles, select the video in the center pane or the timeline, and then press
the “Speech to text” button on the AI tools section in the right pane. This will fire the process on
the server and you will see the conversion in progress in the assets tab in the left pane. Once the
conversion is done, you will see the subtitles on the video. You can then edit them if you need
using the subtitles pane in the left.
3b. (Optional) Upload your SRT file, or manually enter the subtitles
In the subtitle pane on the left, you have an option of uploading your own SRT file. Once you upload
the file, CloudStudio will show the subtitles on the the video, as well as allow you to edit them
further if needed.
You can also manually enter the subtitles in the left pane’s subtitle tab. You can adjust the times of each subtitle easily using the subtitles tab, or editing the text clip in the timeline, just like editing any other text clip.
4. Export video with subtitles
Once you are done with generating, adding and editing the subtitles, simply export the project.
If you want the subtitles to be burned on to the video frames the toggle the “Burn subtitles on video” button to yes/green from no/red state. You can also not burn the subtitles on the video, and download them as a SRT file to upload yourself on video sharing websites if you wish so.
