Hi,
The new feature to add subtitle with simplicity is awsome.
But I read that is possible to add color on it.

I can't do it. Do you have some advices for add color on these ?

Thanks in advance

Like the nature of subtitles developers are proposing white and yellow (not implemented yet) colors (just to have an idea of the final result) ... BTW... the USE of subtitiles on Kdenlive was made to CREATE and "EXTRACT" the SRT file... not to render Subtitiles directly on final output ...you can.. but... there are better (and specialized) tool to merge videos and SRT files ... (and usually this is a player-feature)

if you need to place text on the videos you have to use the titler tool... if you want to make subtitles (and this mean that probably these subtitiles needs to be translate to various languages...) the subtitle file need to to be imported directly on player... (like on VLC) on old formats (divx..mp4...mpg2 avi) .. no idea if these subtitiles can be joined (on future) directly by Kdenlive (i've not read plans about that) on Matroska files to make video and subtitle an unique file. (but this can be done with this tool: https://mkvtoolnix.download/ )

Thanks a lot for your reply

I did not understand that

spyvain wrote:Thanks a lot for your reply

I did not understand that

@spyvain, I think what @bartoloni is saying is related to the issue I'm having. Hopefully bartoloni will correct me if I'm wrong. The subtitle tool in kdenlive is really an editor for a .srt file, so that after you render your video you will also have a .srt file so that when you play the video in a player, the subtitles will show up.

If you really want the subtitles "burnt in" to the video, once you have a .srt file you can use

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ffmpeg -i rendered_vid.mp4 -vf subtitles=rendered_vid.srt rendered_vid_with_subs.mp4

My problem is that there's a video online showing subtitles displayed in the monitor pane while they are being placed, and I can't see them when I do it! It makes it very hard to guess where the subtitles are, render the video, check the subtitles with a player, move the subtitles, re-check the video with a player. I would really rather just see the subtitles in the monitor window like the guy in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuc60lz2Us) on youtube can! Help!