Of course, it is not limited to just movies. News, educational videos, music videos, interviews are just among the many video types that have subtitles. The same thing goes with our presentation. If we want to reach more people, especially if your goal is to bring your product or services worldwide, we need to add subtitles on them.

Parasite director Bong Joon Ho delivers his acceptance speech for Best Foreign Language film at the Golden Globes

What about earphones? Well yes, but not everyone has earphones and some offices don’t allow earphones at work.

There’s a study conducted saying that 85% of the time, the videos on Facebook, which is the biggest social media platform, are watched on mute. Instagram videos are played with no sound unless you click the video to enable the audio.

Regardless of what the studies say, a lot of people really prefer to have no audio on the videos being played on their social media apps. Some people want to enjoy music while browsing through videos, others just don’t want to disturb people around them. If you have a subtitle, people won’t be missing out even if your video is on mute.

People have different ways of learning. We are not all visual learners. Some learn by reading, some learn by watching and some learn when they tend to fully experience and do things on their own. If an audience of yours is not a visual learner, they won’t fully grasp your message and you might just lose a potential client there if you are promoting a product or a service.

Some watch videos while Spotify is on, and just scroll up if they don’t like what they see. Even if you have good graphics, chances are, people won’t fully understand your video if it is muted and you don’t have subtitles.

Also, people, these days are so busy and attention spans are decreasing. We all love to multitask while we do other things. Having subtitles while listening to music, or putting on your makeup, whatever it is, makes people understand your video better.

In case you’re not one of us, most people would turn on subtitles whenever it is available even if they speak the same language as the speaker in the presentation. For some reason, it just makes the whole video experience way better.

Studies show that videos with subtitles on Facebook receive more interaction, more likes, more hearts, more attention from viewers. People can watch your video and understand your message even without audio.

Sometimes visuals are not enough for your video to stand out but if your video includes words that people can easily see and read, especially if your video is something that people can relate to, the chance of people scrolling up on their feed when they see your video is less. Also, people tend to finish watching videos with subtitles as compared to videos without them. It keeps people hooked to your presentation.

Here is now our updated subtitle.

Sometimes there’s a need to disable certain subtitles in our video and just choose to show selected scenes with captions on. If that is the case, all you have to do is go to the scene you wish to disable the subtitle and switch the subtitle toggle to “OFF” from the Scene Settings. You don’t have to delete your subtitle, just turn it off.

You don’t have to memorize your script or message, just simply input your spiel on the subtitle settings and read it. Of course, we don’t want to sound as if we’re reading so make sure you sound as natural as possible.

It is important that you practice reading your subtitles prior to recording your voice so you know if you need to adjust the duration of each slide or not.

Here are the steps on how you can make your own teleprompter in Doodly.

Clicking the red mic icon automatically plays your video and starts the recording so all you have to do is read your script from the subtitles.

You can always delete your recording if you made a mistake so don’t beat yourself if you made an error, just delete and record it again.

As soon as you have recorded your voiceover and you’re happy with it, you can disable the subtitle from your screen. You can do this by going to Video Settings and turning OFF the subtitle menu.

And here’s how it look like after we removed the subtitle:

When you use the subtitle field to write your notes, don’t forget to toggle to “OFF” the subtitle menu.

Sometimes you have one scene that requires a long voiceover or subtitle. An example of this is when you have a scene that has a chart that you need to discuss. One or two sentences are not enough to explain it.

Well, what we can do is split the scene into several scenes and split the subtitle across those scenes.

If we look at our sample scene above, the subtitle consists of 5 sentences. That means, we need to have 5 scenes with only 1 sentence each. Before we go ahead and duplicate our scene above, we need to tweak its settings so when we duplicate it, the right format is carried over. That way, we don’t have to change the settings of each scene one by one.

1. Extra Time At The End

With our original scene, the extra time set at the end is 35 seconds. The reason behind that is because we want to make sure that our scene stays visible until the voiceover ends. Duplicating the original scene 4 times will make our video too long if we keep that timing so we need to change it. Let’s set that to 8 seconds for now. Note that this is not yet the final timing. We will adjust this right after we duplicated the scenes so our subtitle matches our voiceover.

2. Exit Animation

Make sure that Exit animation is set to None. We don’t want the scene to be moving when it transitions to the next scene. Remember that we have 5 scenes that are all the same so we want to make it look still and not moving when it displays the next set of subtitles.

3. Edit Asset Settings (pencil icon)

Click the pencil icon to enter the Edit Asset screen. Change the Reveal Mode to Fade and set Animation duration to 1s. Don’t forget to save.

If the ‘save and return’ button is grayed out, try moving the path size and drag it a little bit then hit Save & return after.

4. Asset Settings (gear icon)

Go to Asset Settings then make sure that Enter Animation is set to None.

Scene 3 – Delete the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th sentences and just keep the 3rd sentence.

Scene 4 – Delete sentences 1st up to 3rd as well as the last sentence. Just keep the 4th sentence.

Scene 5 – Finally for scene 5, keep the last sentence and delete the rest of the subtitles.

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