"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.
You can automatically enable subtitles using the JavaScript API.
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:
Click the [Advanced Video Editing] button in the editing area. You will be brought to the advanced video editing area for the selected video.
Icon Glossary
Icon | Meaning |
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| This set of subtitles was automatically generated by VideoManager Pro |
| This set of subtitles was manually uploaded |
| This set of subtitles was created in the Subtitle Editor |
| This icon will appear beneath videos with subtitles in the Video List |
In the Subtitle General Settings overview, it is possible to change the language definition, add a description, download the VTT/SRT subtitle files or manually edit the singe subtitle.