"Subtitles Management" is a separate feature package that may not be available with your account.
Nowadays it is essential to take a barrier-free implementation of online videos into consideration if you intend to distribute your videos professionally. This means that the subtitling for the deaf or hard of hearing, but also for viewers who may not be native speakers of the video's language, is required. Subtitles can also transcribe audible elements (relevant ambient noise or events) of the video in a visually readable form, so that in this way, your viewers can follow video content even without sound. This aspect is of great significance for mobile viewers, because the viewing of videos on the go is often without sound.
The subtitles function offers you the possibility to implement subtitles as closed caption in your videos, so that viewers can show or hide subtitles as needed.
You can add subtitles in the advanced editing area of uploaded videos. WEBVTT and .SRT files are supported, which is a W3C standard.
Currently, subtitles are only supported when using the Bitmovin Player type (all browsers) and HTML5 when using Chrome or Safari.
Perform the following steps to add subtitles to a video:
- First, click on your desired video in the video list.
Click the [Advanced Video Editing] button in the editing area. You will be brought to the advanced video editing area for the selected video.
- Select the "Subtitles" entry in the navigation.
- Click on the button [Add subtitles] beneath the preview player. The "Add Subtitles" dialog will open.
- Select the language your subtitles are in, and then upload your subtitle file.
- A new subtitles entry for your selected language will be created and displayed beneath the player. While your subtitle file is uploading, a spinner will be displayed next to the subtitles name.
- Click any subtitles entry in the list to open the subtitles General Settings area. Here, you can add a description or change the language associated with your subtitles file. (For example, if you uploaded subtitles in French but labeled them as English, you can change that here.) You can also download the subtitle file you uploaded.
- To preview a subtitle, start the video in the preview player. Click the speech bubble icon and select the name of the subtitles you'd like to see. To turn the subtitles off, select Off.
After subtitles have been added to a video, an icon will be shown beneath the video in the Video List. This is so you can easily keep track of which videos in your VideoManager account have subtitles.
Icon Glossary
Icon Meaning 
This set of subtitles was automatically generated by VideoManager Pro 
This set of subtitles was manually uploaded 
This set of subtitles has been edited in the Subtitle Editor 
This icon will appear beneath videos with subtitles in the Video List