How to Extract or Rip Subtitle or Closed Caption Files from a Video or Movie Using Subtitle Edit

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How to Extract or Rip Subtitle or Closed Caption Files from a Video or Movie Using Subtitle Edit

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David Mbugua

Күн бұрын

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@David_Mbugua Жыл бұрын

Update for 2023: Or try VideoProc bit.ly/3yAPMNh to download Videos with subtitles, or extract subtitles from MKV, MP4, AVI, VOB and any videos in SRT format.

@amelie8563 3 жыл бұрын

I was looking everywhere for this. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!!

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Happy to help.

@amelie8563 3 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua Happy new year and thanks for teaching us all this stuff!

@scottstormcarter9603 2 жыл бұрын

Never Stop Learning

@David_Mbugua 2 жыл бұрын

Yep!

@scottstormcarter9603 2 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua My motto

@didoma73 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this!

@David_Mbugua Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Happy to share.

@VasilWho Жыл бұрын

Brilliant, David! Thanks a lot for this. So simple, yet so needed "trick" I've been totally unaware of. Most helpful indeed.

@udaraponnamperuma6955 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Udara. Happy to help.

@mik9228 Жыл бұрын

Amazing! I have been looking for a way to extract soft subtitles, but other people only mentioned weird software and unreliable sources. This was the simplest way, worked perfectly. Thank you very much!

@David_Mbugua Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Happy to share. Here's a link to my top 3 free software to remove soft subtitles. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j551qsiXtJ7Zo3U.html Thanks. :)

@shehandinuka4828 2 жыл бұрын

thanks buddy ....thank you very much

@David_Mbugua 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Happy to share.

@itsmemariobrasileiro Жыл бұрын

TY man, it was very helpfull

@David_Mbugua Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. :)

@Aika273 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro you saved my life again ^_^

@David_Mbugua 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@gabrieldiniztavares9711 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Gabriel. Happy to share.

@SmilingScythe Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@harshranjan8526 3 жыл бұрын

Thank u so much

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Harsh. Happy to share.

@harshranjan8526 3 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua 😀😁

@octachronicles 3 жыл бұрын

Yesss! This works! Thank you so much.

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@OnlineIncomeCircle 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is amazing. I can actually offer this as a service. Will put it on trial and see how it works out.

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Kevin. All the best and remember to always confirm whether the subtitles/cc are open or just embedded. :-) Thanks.

@CraftBlack 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very⁴ 👍

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome 👍

@gfxmanx460 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you David, you saved my day with this video

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

@samgroovs9995 2 жыл бұрын

Tysm dude u have no idea how much u helped me rn god bless u brother

@unworldlypath 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@chlikechopin 4 жыл бұрын

thank you for the video . it helped me a lot

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Kiana. Happy to help.

@MarsilitoSanchez 3 жыл бұрын

This is very informative, thanks for the tutorial brother

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Marsilito. Happy to share.

@JoAnneMbonigaba 4 жыл бұрын

Really cool, thanks for sharing this!

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@Nezello 2 жыл бұрын

I have a video that does not need or has a separate srt file. HandBrake will not find the English subtitle. I tried many settings under the subtitle tab to no avail. However, I have another program that finds the English subtitle no problem. What is the magic sauce to get HandBrake to see the subtitle?

@Podsilon2024 2 жыл бұрын

Hi David, can I input 2 subtitles together in 1 video? 1 subtitle on top the video and second subtitle is on bottom the video

@David_Mbugua 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jimmy, Yes, you can add 2 subtitles together in 1 video. Here's a quick tutorial to do that. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibypjdx-qqzNXWg.html I hope that helps. Thanks!

@oclock-zv7zw 16 күн бұрын

When I open the mp4 file with the subtitle editing program, I receive the warning "No subtitle found."

@dij7878 4 жыл бұрын

This was really helpful. Thank you. I'm not sure if you are still monitoring this video, but if I have questions about Subtitle Edit, I do hope you would be available to answer them. Again, thank you for posting this video :-)

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Blanche's. Feel free to ask any questions you have. Thanks.

@nepobedivititanik 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial thx for help man i subscribed :D

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Gosn. Thanks for the sub and happy to help.

@lazinggu2051 Жыл бұрын

To extract subtitles from Blu-ray as SRT file, I applied DumboFab Blu-ray ripper. It can rip all or selectable Blu-ray subtitles (PGS incl.) to separate srt files easily.

@JasonMontgomery 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you David. I get a bad subtitle warning when I try to open it in Subtitle Workshop though. Just opened it in notepad and got all of the timings, just none of the text. *Edit* I apologize, getting the hang of the program, thank you again.

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Jason. Glad to see that you got it solved.

@user-ib5lf3ft8p 3 ай бұрын

I couldn’t download the video because it has restricted copyright and i need the subtitles to work on a project .. my question is can i record the screen with the subtitles showing and then extract it ? Would that be possible ?

@pareshbalsara4662 3 жыл бұрын

Hi David, i was watching a movie with Thai subtitles, i wanted to rip these and get the english subs, so, on seeing your video i downloaded subtitle edit and tried to load the video , but i get the message no subtitles or missing codecs and a a remark or two additional, what do i do next ?

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Paresh, You may be dealing with subtitles that are permanently burned in the video. If that's not the case, try using MKVToolNix. Here's how it works. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7Opfb2Yrp-ukoE.html Thanks!

@zerok1897 10 ай бұрын

I download (drag and drop toolbar for windows 11) but when I using Subtitle Edit, drag and drop not working? How do I activate it?

@danibanair2768 Жыл бұрын

hello, I tried 20 times to drag the subtitled video into the white square as you do, but the video never moves into the white square. I have the subtle edit 3.6.10. please help us

@animewithaakash6789 4 жыл бұрын

Thnxx its work

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@jervis17 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this tutorial. You mention ripping subtitles from a movie, but when I tried to put the movie I'm interested in into Subtitle Edit it was rejected because it was too big. It's 1.6 GB. Do you know any way around this problem?

@gijgannicolae2075 3 жыл бұрын

1 Convert video file

@ChristianD.-ll4km Жыл бұрын

I know it also so, from my wife :D, only with large files it does not work sadly, do you know any advice?

@veraluciaferreira7249 3 жыл бұрын

How do I download the srt of a video that is on ok.ru. I want to extract the caption and then translate it and then put it back in the video. What program should I use, please?

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Vera, I'm not sure how you can download an srt from ok.ru. It's the first time I've heard of that website. Do you have a link to the video you want to download the srt from?

@piracyparty 3 жыл бұрын

When I rip the subtitles the subtitles have spaces in them

@hmj8469 4 жыл бұрын

I am trying to extract pgs Italian subtitles from a mkv movie. After the video loads I get this Import OCR window and I don't know what to do. I've never used this program before. Can you help or direct me to a resource that can?

@coolguyvideos599 2 жыл бұрын

I am watching an anime video and I want to take the whole transcript from the video without downloading. Is there a way to do that?

@halleymayavila7247 4 жыл бұрын

hello.. my video is too large it can not be opened. what else can i do?

@asiaseries7072 3 жыл бұрын

How can separate hardsub from video

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, you cannot separate hardcoded/burnt in subtitles from the video. :-(

@raghavpatil4472 3 жыл бұрын

Please help me bro.... How can extract the .srt file of the video url??? Because I am not able to do that,though I can see that option .

@meettheartist5506 2 жыл бұрын

Is Subtitle Edit software available for Mac?

@dude8865 3 жыл бұрын

I tried dragging the video, but it only says, no subtitle found.

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

That means you're working with a hard subbed video/permanently burned in subtitles. This method works if the subtitle is a soft sub or embedded to be enabled and disabled when not needed.

@user-bu8vm7cq5k Жыл бұрын

How to batch rip sub from videos?

@dmitche3 3 жыл бұрын

I'm having difficulties trying to extract the subtitles from the movie "Yummy". The subtitles are there when playing it through VLC. When I open the file in Subtitle Edit it shows timestamps but no text. I can't play this on my TV either through UMS. UMS reports the subtitles on the TV as being "IntSub:PGS:English" if that helps any. Subtitle Edit shows them as "S/HDMV/PGS". UPDATE AGAIN. I got this to work. I'm posting this now for others who have difficulties getting the subtitles from their files. I had taken a BluRay file and converted using FFMPEG. The subtitles worked fine in VLC but not on my TV via UMS. When using the raw BluRay file the program apparently used the OCR function and not the stream to determine the text as is not perfect regarding words, letters, and spacing but it will do.

@Nefret-yq3vq Жыл бұрын

Hi David. Thank you so much for this. I wanted to ask you for some recommendation & advice. I am an ardent fan of Turkish drama serials but I don't understand the language and always look for those with english subtitles. However the subtitles do not make sense to me as they appear to be literal translations out of context. I was wondering if there are softwares that could do a a good translation of the dialogues spoken & provide the subtitles based on the episode videos. Thank you so much.

@BigFootBox 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. What I really want, is to be able to grab both the video and subtitle content from a playable video url, separate and save them as two seperate files (preferably .mp4 and .srt) So almost what you have here, but input from a url.. Can you pls show me how?

@OneBrokeBloke 3 жыл бұрын

How do i delete the subtitles from my MKV container? I can save them as .srt which is nice, thats what i need, but i also need there to be no subtitles in the file at all. Deleting all lines and pressing "save" seems to do nothing?

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

You can use MKVToolnix to remove soft subtitles from your video. Here's how it works. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7Opfb2Yrp-ukoE.html Thanks!

@OneBrokeBloke 3 жыл бұрын

So its not possible with this one? Well that sucks, id rather not have that many programs. Thanks tho. Is there any quality loss using MKVToolnix?

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

@@OneBrokeBloke With Subtitle Edit, you'll only be able to get the subtitle file as a separate file. As for MkvToolNix, you can save the video, audio, or even subtitle individually. That's why I've recommended it. I don't think there's any quality loss because there's no re-encoding with MKvToolNix. I hope this helps. Thanks!

@bccabernet Жыл бұрын

@@OneBrokeBloke - I know you asked a year ago, but just in case you're interested... the MKV Toolnix GUI programme doesn't have to use any compression (it's in the settings) when you save your file into MKV. You can add or remove subtitles easily with this programme. All audio and subs pop up in the programme when you drag the video file into it and you can uncheck the ones you don't want to keep. You can name the tracks of the audio (ie: Commentary) or subtitles if you wanted to. If the video file already has a subtitle in there and I don't want it -but want to add a new one, I add the video file first. Uncheck the sub I don't want and then add the sub I do want. That way I am not getting the subtitles mixed up. The same idea proceeds for audio if you want to add a new one and remove the old. This programme will also convert all other video files into MKV without having to re-encode them... and done within minutes!

@miguelmancilla805 4 жыл бұрын

Good morning David from Cancun, Mexico. I wonder what would you recommend to do in order to start as an freelancer in the close captioning area? I want to start with the right foot in Fiver. Any advice on what to deliver to customers that not everyone is giving? Thanks a lot for you superb work.

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Miguel, Thanks for reaching out and your kind words are highly appreciated. Here are some few gigs I'd recommend you try to set up on Fiverr. 1. Translating subtitles from Language (X) to Language (Y) e.g. Spanish to English or Vice Versa. These 2 language pairs have a ton of work especially in the movie, tv shows, etc 2. Quality Assurance/Quality Check of Automatically Generated Subtitles from KZfaq Videos. 3. Adding Open Captions to videos especially when content has Lower Third Graphics e.g. news segments, etc I hope this helps. :-)

@miguelmancilla805 4 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua Thank you so much for your advice and I'll be implementing those tips. Cheers.

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Miguel. All the best. :-)

@kafeelahmad532 3 жыл бұрын

how to extract hard burn subtitle file>>?

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Kafeel, I haven't found a way to extract hard burned subtitles from a video. It's pretty difficult.

@dewabrata8635 3 жыл бұрын

How to make the orginal softcoded subtitle from the movie file is appear on subtitle edit application video display? (not the .srt type). Thanks.

@Vicky-tq1jc 3 жыл бұрын

it shows file is too large what to do?

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

Try using MKVToolNix. Here's how it works. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7Opfb2Yrp-ukoE.html Thanks!

@Dragoslav369 2 жыл бұрын

Program show "there is not subtitle" in this video.

@Brewermb 2 жыл бұрын

Hi David, great video, I tried Subtitle Edit with a .ts file, and now the video file won't play, only the audio, any ideas, please.

@hashedm11 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, I hope you are doing well. I tried to use it but it always says this file is too large. So what do you advise me to do ? thanks in advance

@kaivin88 4 жыл бұрын

BTW... I'm Still new to this thing... In what I do in my videos, I always "write" the subtitles within "in the video". Which basically means, embeding the words literally on the "video image" which it can't be "turned off". So is this called "hard subtitle"?

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

Yes that's called hard subtitles, open captions, hard-coded, burned subtitles, etc.

@DeadNPC 4 жыл бұрын

Is there any way to extract the subtitles from hard subbed video. It doesn't matter if the subtitles stay in the video. I need to extract the subtitles to translate...

@lancewixom4977 3 жыл бұрын

i want to copy a subtitle from one video and save it as a .srt file i tried the drop video like you did and it says there is no subtitles .. but yet there is when i play it is there a way to do this ? or do i have to just remake the times on it and add the subtitles manually?

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

If the subtitles are permanently burned in the video, they'll not be recognized. Unfortunately, you'll have to remake them. :-(

@gergesnasr2612 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man this is really great! Please take this advice from me without taking it personally I just wanna help, Please try to take less in your videos (writing an arranged script may help a lot at that). Thanks again!

@David_Mbugua 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Gerges. Happy to help.

@GwenL 2 жыл бұрын

Hi David, if I click and drag the mp4 to the storyboard of Subtitle Edit, and the prompt says No subtitles, does it mean that the creator did not include the subtitle file, or were the subtitles hard coded in the video? I wish to make some corrections to the closed captioning in a video sent to me, but I am unable to locate the subtitles file. Please advise.

@David_Mbugua 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Gwen, I'll assume the subs are hard coded. Try play the video in VLC Media Player. Right click and see if you can turn the subtitles on or off. If you can't those are hard Subbed. Thanks.

@GwenL 2 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua Thanks David.

@MicaBooth Жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua thanks for the app... I have a problem . i download a clip from you tube with subtitles in english but when I try to inset it on the program is telling me there is no subtitles . I used media player classic.

@danarenee6088 4 жыл бұрын

Can you help me? I have a foreign movie, it is in Spanish, and only has Spanish subtitles. How can I change the subtitles on my dvd to english? And then play the dvd with the English subtitles showing on the screen? I do not speak Spanish. So I need to translate everything via the computer and not manually

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Dana, Thanks for reaching out. I can give 3 solutions. 1. Extract the Spanish subtitles from the video and then automatically translate to English using www.syedgakbar.com/projects/dst Here's a tutorial of how that works. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtOAm5SAqODKgYk.html 2. Search for the English subtitles to your movie. You'll most probably find the English subs online. 3. Extract the Subtitle and use Subtitle Edit to automatically translate the Spanish subtitle to English. I hope this helps. Thanks.

@KarthiKeyan-zr4gu 4 жыл бұрын

I have hard subtitles in video can I convert into english and paste in movie pls telll

@vicmiami 3 жыл бұрын

Dear David, thank you for your instructive clips. However, I need your expertise if you could help me: I have video clip in Arabic and subtitles which seem to me to be Hebrew, which I do not understand. I tried to remove the subs and translate them into English, French or Spanish but all the programs I used "said": NO SUBTITLES" - How come if during the clip I see them. Any idea please? Thank you

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Victor, The subtitles you're dealing with are permanently burned in the video and that's why no program is able to identify the subtitles. Unfortunately, it's not possible to remove or extract permanently burned-in subtitles from a video. Sorry!

@vicmiami 3 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua Dear David, thank you for kind answer. I really appreciate it.

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

@@vicmiami You're welcome. Happy to reply. :-)

@vicmiami 3 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua Best regards.

@altaktak 2 жыл бұрын

@@vicmiami Hi david! I think he can extract burned-in subtitles from a video. Thank you for your good job

@EpisodiShqip Жыл бұрын

How to Extract or Rip Subtitle hardcoded?

@David_Mbugua Жыл бұрын

It's not possible to extract hardcoded subtitles using Subtitle Edit at the time of replying to your comment. Sorry! ;(

@EpisodiShqip Жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua It's possible with other soft?

@David_Mbugua Жыл бұрын

@@EpisodiShqip I've not tried extracting hard coded subs. Therefore, I don't know if there's any other software.

@anotherdestructionsafj7429 3 жыл бұрын

Does it work on hardsubbed videos?

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

No, it doesn't. Hardsubs are permanently burned in the video, removing them is extremely difficult to impossible.

@SakuraEtsu2007 4 ай бұрын

I found this video deeply confusing. All I want to do, is to extract the closed captioning text from television show episodes, that not only shows what is being said, but which character is saying it.

@Maceta444 3 жыл бұрын

It says video doesn't have subtitles when it clearly has. Sucks...

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe they are permanently burned in the video. 🤔🤔🤔

@Maceta444 3 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua Seems so. Too bad.

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

@@Maceta444 sorry. 😭😭😭

@thorbjrnhellehaven5766 3 жыл бұрын

Is there an "easy" way to extract hardcoded subtitle, if you have the same video with and without hardcoded subtitle? Compare both videos, extract difference as bitmap subtitle overlay with transparent background. I want to extract the subtitle to append a subtitle track, rather than to have two editions.

@David_Mbugua 3 жыл бұрын

I've tried a couple of ways but none has ever yielded good results. Very poor results if any application is successful at all. Sorry!

@thorbjrnhellehaven5766 3 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua I understand that it would be a challenge if the two videos were of different quickly. But they were captured on the same recorder, from the same source. Comparing the two videos should be possible, using identical parts to create a mask. It is not like they have been through lots different conversions and compressions. There should not be a lot of different compression artifacts in the non subtitle areas, making them very equal. The prefered option would be to convert the resulting bitmap subtitle, to text base subtitle, but just getting a bitmap subtitle would be acceptable if usable. Getting dubbed sound track and original sound track I just sync two recordings. Sound tracks are (almost) insignificant in size, but two full frame video tracks will double the size. I expect a successful bitmap subtitle extraction to be way smaller than a full frame video, and of corse text base subtitle to be even smaller.

@hentertainment233 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm so after putting the video into the program, it freezes and doesn't show up in the taskbar. Little suspicious

@rahashayeste5995 4 жыл бұрын

does this works only on soft subs? I need to extract a hard sub

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

Only soft subs. I don't think there's a way to extract hard subs coz they are permanently hard coded into the video.

@danibanair2768 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, you are going too fast!!! but how to open the embed capture in video????????????????????????

@shawonchowdhury1023 4 жыл бұрын

what i do man.......when i l do it software show no subtitle loded.

@smokey5587 4 жыл бұрын

But how to take subtitle from hardsub video..?

@shaddehardcroft4363 Жыл бұрын

i still see english.amt was not found...

@nathanabrogena6147 4 жыл бұрын

How do you delete the soft coded subtitle then?

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

You may need to transcode your video via Handbrake and I'm assuming the output will be without the soft subtitles. Thanks.

@nathanabrogena6147 4 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua oh so this software doesnt have that feature then, so do you have a video on how to do that?

@nathanabrogena6147 4 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua can you add hard coded subtitles using subtitle edit?

@David_Mbugua 4 жыл бұрын

You cannot delete soft-subs or hard code subtitles with Subtitle Edit. You can use an application like Handbrake to permanently add subtitles to the video. Here's how it works. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNCIaNlmv5rOgXU.html You can also use VLC to permanently burn the subtitles to the video. Here's how it works. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obhdnsZ83Z_NeKs.html I hope that helps. Thanks!

@nathanabrogena6147 4 жыл бұрын

@@David_Mbugua thank you so much sir! You've become a great help!