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How To Add Subtitles On Videos In Shotcut Videos Editors | Shotcut Tutorial
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Apr 15, 2025
Do you want to add subtitles to your videos. In this tutorial I show you How To Add Subtitles On Videos In Shotcut Videos Editors WATCH: https://youtu.be/LTgNdaVJLFQ Shotcut is a free to use open source video editing program that you can download and use on your Windows computer or Macbook to edit high quality videos while offline and download them. Download Shotcut today: https://www.shotcut.org/ #shotcut #videoediting
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in this video I'm going to show you how
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you can add subtitles on your videos in
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shortcut my name is Isaac and this is a
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minute with AI so to get started first
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you want to create a track for your
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subtitles so I'll go ahead and create
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another video track i have V1 track that
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is video one track just go ahead and add
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another track and to do so just right
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click on an empty space on top here and
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then under track operations select add
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video track so this will go ahead and
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add another video track so let me push
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this up yeah great so that we can begin
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so we want to go ahead and add our
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subtitles on this track too and as you
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can see it is here V2 once you're done
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it's time to go ahead and add our
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subtitles here so to do so just come on
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top here under open other and then tap
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on it and then we have an option called
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text go ahead and tap on it so if you
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tap on text you see we have an option a
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text box here come under presets and
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then click on it then click on
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transparent that will make the
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background of our subtitles to be
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transparent now it's time to go ahead
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and begin writing your text that you
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want to add on your video clip so I'll
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go ahead and write welcome to my
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meditation class so I've added welcome
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to my meditation class and I have to go
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ahead and choose the type of text
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whether you want just simple text or
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text stretch so I like text stretch
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because it gives me much control i'll
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leave it at text stretch once you're
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done go ahead and tap on add to timeline
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and this will go and add this straight
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to our timeline so I'll tap on add to
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timeline and look at that our subtitles
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have been added and it is from here now
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you can go ahead and resize this and
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move it wherever you want so if you want
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it to cover the whole of this track you
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can just drag it from the end here and
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it will cover the whole of this and if
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you try play it you can see it is going
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to cover the whole of that alternatively
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if you have other subtitles that you
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want to add it is pretty simple just go
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ahead and click on this subtitle and
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then copy it by tapping on Ctrl + C on
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your keyboard and then come to a place
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where you want to paste it and then tap
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on Ctrl + V if you want to move it you
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can still move it there and then if you
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tap on it now you have an option to edit
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it so I can edit it straight from here
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and write sign up today and the writings
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are pretty small so I'll go ahead and
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increase the font size so to copy this
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just go ahead and click on the subtitle
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and then Ctrl C on your keyboard and
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then identify where you want to paste it
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and then paste it by just pressing on
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Ctrl +V and this will go ahead and paste
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it here and as you can see here it is if
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you click in this box you can see now
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you can edit this so let me edit it to
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suit my need we are open just sign up
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great so you can see now if I play the
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whole of it the message is clear the
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subtitles have been added great so you
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can adjust this and move them or prolong
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them as you wish you can go ahead and
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even drag this to the whole of your
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timeline and it should be perfectly well
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if you want to resize this you can go
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ahead and resize it by increasing the
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font or reducing the font you can also
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go ahead and change the text color to
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any color that you so wish when you
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choose on this and you can see if I
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press on okay if you selected only one
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word it will be applied so that's how
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it's done now if you also want to move
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this maybe you want it these writings to
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be on top here you can as well move it
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when you just use this dot here and that
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is it so that's how you add subtitles to
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your videos in shortcut if this video is
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helpful to you kindly hit the like
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support me thank you for watching and
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let's meet in the next video