Subtitles in Video Editors and Players
How to bring an SRT file into the editor or player you already use, whether it can write subtitles itself, and how to get them out again — checked against each maker's own documentation.
- How to Edit YouTube Captions and Subtitles
Open YouTube Studio, choose Subtitles and the video, click Edit next to the language, change the lines and click Publish. Automatic captions can’t be changed in place: choose Duplicate and edit to work on your own copy. For timing fixes across the whole video, download the subtitle file, correct it in an editor and upload it back with timing.
- How to Add Subtitles in Premiere Pro
Import the .srt into your project like any media file, then drag it onto the sequence: Premiere Pro creates a caption track and you edit the lines in the Text panel. To make captions from the audio instead, use Speech to Text in the Text panel, which supports 18 languages.
- How to Add Subtitles in iMovie
iMovie has no way to import an SRT file or generate captions: Apple's iMovie guides for Mac and iPhone only describe titles, which you add and time one by one. For more than a few lines, burn the subtitles into the video with another tool and bring the finished MP4 into iMovie, or export from iMovie first and add subtitles after.
- How to Add Subtitles in DaVinci Resolve
Import the .srt from the Media Pool and drag it onto the timeline, where Resolve adds a subtitle track; it reads SRT, TTML and XML. Automatic subtitles — Timeline > Create Subtitles from Audio — are only in the paid Studio version, which supports 57 languages once you download the extended language pack.
- How to Add Subtitles in VLC
While the video plays, choose Video > Subtitle Track > Open File and pick the .srt — or give the subtitle file exactly the same name as the video, in the same folder, and VLC loads it automatically. VLC plays SRT, ASS/SSA, WebVTT, TTML and VobSub, but it can't create subtitles.
- How to Fix Subtitle Delay in VLC
Press H while the video plays to make subtitles appear later, or G to make them appear earlier — on a Mac, J and H. Each press moves them by 50 ms, and VLC shows the total on the video. For a bigger offset, type it in Tools → Track Synchronization. VLC doesn’t save the delay into the subtitle file.
- How to Add Subtitles in CapCut
On CapCut for desktop, choose Captions > Add Captions and pick the .srt; on CapCut for web, upload it in the Captions tab. The mobile app can't import subtitle files, but all three versions have Auto captions, which write subtitles from the speech.
- How to Add Subtitles in Canva
Select the video and click Captions in the toolbar — or go to Text > Dynamic text > Captions — pick a style and generate: Canva writes editable captions from the speech in 57 languages. Canva's help describes no way to upload or download an SRT, so the captions live only in the design and in MP4 downloads.
- How to Add Subtitles in Final Cut Pro
Choose File > Import > Captions, pick the .srt, .itt or .scc file, and choose a caption role and language: the captions appear in a lane at the top of the timeline. Final Cut Pro can also generate subtitles with Edit > Generate Captions > Subtitles, but only in U.S. English and only on a Mac with Apple silicon.
- How to Turn Off YouTube Auto-Dubbing
As a viewer, open the player Settings, choose Audio track and pick the original language. To stop it on every video, add the languages you understand under Settings > Playback & Performance > Language: YouTube doesn’t dub a video whose original audio is already in one of your preferred languages. As a creator, open YouTube Studio > Settings > Channel > Advanced settings, untick Allow automatic dubbing and click Save.