Text on Videos

Sonnenburg · Post by **Sonnenburg** » 2004-11-18 08:02pm

Not sure if this is the appropriate forum, but does anyone know of a program I can use to add text to a video that's in avi or mpeg format, like subtitles or something?

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-11-18 08:05pm

Neither AVI nor MPEG-1 support text tracks. The best you could do is use something like Premiere to add the text, but then you'd have to say goodbye to compression efficiency.

Sonnenburg · Post by **Sonnenburg** » 2004-11-19 12:13am

Let me rephrase: I would like it so I can put text onto a video file that would look like subtitles; it wouldn't have to actually function like a subtitle track would.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-11-19 10:46am

There are methods to put a subtitle track in AVIs, actually (in fact, there are not a few). Its one of the hacks added to AVI over the years.

As for actually putting text into the video stream, you'll need some sort of NLE like Vegas, Premiere or whatnot.

Sonnenburg · Post by **Sonnenburg** » 2004-11-19 07:19pm

Okay, sounds like this is going to be kind of involved then. Thanks!

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-11-19 07:40pm

virtualdub lets you add subtitles to an avi file, though they'd be hard subs.