

This would require a captions file with carefully selected timecodes. It’s also common to burn-in English subtitles during a foreign language sequence for an English-speaking audience. When disabled, the captions will not appear.īurned-in captions (or open captions) are hardcoded straight onto the video screen and cannot be turned on or turned off. When a track is enabled, the captions will overlay the video. Closed captions are encoded into the video file, and can be turned on or off by the viewer. If you would like your video file to be encoded with closed captions or subtitles, feel free to skip this step. Choose “Burned-In” for open captions, and skip this step if you want closed captions In our example, the SRT Language is set to Spanish for the track with the Spanish foreign subtitles.

I set up a queue of videos to convert in Handbrake, and it merrily chugs along while I rip additional DVDs. In our example, we have SRT files for English Closed Captions and Spanish subtitles.īe sure to specify the SRT language for any foreign subtitle tracks. Another advantage of using Mac the Ripper (or any non-Handbrake DVD ripper) is that it can be ripping DVDs to the hard drive while Handbrake is working on converting already-ripped VIDEOTS files to mp4s (or whatever).

You can add as many subtitle tracks as you’d like! In several languages
