Does anyone have advice about how I can add subtitles to a video? Someone is offering me a .srt file for the purpose, and I don't know if I can use it. I have Movie Studio 12 (64 bit) and DVD Architect Studio 5.
It depends on what you have and how you want it in the end.
Subtitles in DVD is one thing, hard subtitles in video is another.
If you want to do DVD with subtitles it might be better to add them in DVD Architect if you have prepared text already. You can use some subtitle editor, they are more appropriate for that purpose than Vegas.
If you only need to add small amount of hard subtitles, you can use text generator on upper video track, manually create every text generator event, manually measure length and position, fill in text.
For a large amount of hard subtitles you can use subtitle editor to create .srt file, install ffdshow tryouts, play srt file as video and either capture this video or use video proxy (for example, make avi executable creates proxy .avi file that will play .srt file as video). Then you add proxy file to your project, set up transparency (if needed) and render in vegas.
Thanks for the advice, everyone. Is adding subtitles reasonably easy for a beginner in DVDA Pro, and does it handle .srt files? If so, I might have to splash out on a copy.
If you have an srt-file, you don't have to 'burn' the subtitles into the video. Just render the video file, then put the srt file in the same folder, and make sure you give them the same name. VLC Media Player and Windows Media Player will then play the video and the subtitles.
Youtube too will import an srt file; Vimeo will not :-(
If your plan is to burn a dvd, I can't help you with that.