Addendum: (For Quicktime Pro version 7.6.9)

To put the subtitle or open caption below the video, go to the Quicktime menu and open and you’ll see the window below. Highlight “Text Track” by clicking on it, and click the “visual settings” tab.

In the offset settings type in the pixel height of your video (in this case 240) in the second box ((the “y” axis, vertical setting). This will move the captions down below the video so you open captions or subtitles will not block the image or any titles in the video. (note: In the image below, the title size had mistakely been set to full 720 width. All the 720 settings in the “x” axis, horizontal, should have been 360 to match the 360 x240 size for the video.

If you want to change the placement of the title horizontally, change the first number of the Offset settings , the horizontal x-axis.

COMBINING FILES TO APPLY A CLOSED CAPTION FILE. THEN CUTTING THEM APART

If you have one caption file for several video segments in a DVD, you can recombine them to add the captions in Quicktime Pro.

In each segment you want to add, click in the timeline, select from the menu and then you can copy the video segment.

Now go to the video where you want to add the segment, place the playhead at the end of the video, and then select from the menu .

Then save the Quicktime file to a new file name.

To cut the open captioned files back up into separate files with captions, do the following.

Save the file to a new name, so you don’t lose your master file.

Use the selection tabs at the bottom of the time line to mark the beginning and end of the section you want to make into a new segment.

Now select from the Quicktime menu .

The new shorter video segment will still have the proper title files.

SAMPLE OPEN CAPTION FILE
Here is a sample file for open captions. A couple things to note:

This sample is sized for a 360×240, 15 fps Quicktime file.

This uses the global setting for title size and placement at the start of the captions.

The time is set to match the time code on the titles (29.97 fps) from the original captions prepared for DVD. Even though the video web video was 15 frames per second (fps), the timing worked correctly.

To display the last title, there must be a time code set after the last title.

If you want a title to go off screen before the next title comes up, there must be a timecode with no title indicating the time it should disappear. See [00:00:32.08]
in the sample.

{QTtext}{font: Arial}{justify: left}{size: 24}{backcolor:0, 0, 0}
{timescale: 29.97}{width: 360}{height: 0}

[00:00:02.08]
[00:00:04.08] Hello, my name is
Richard.

[00:00:07.09] Welcome to Project Management

[00:00:09.22] Leadership Overview:
Online Edition.

[00:00:12.05] I have been training project
managers for over 20 years,

[00:00:15.18] but I am
particularly excited today

[00:00:18.00] to be discussing
your enterprise-wide

[00:00:20.17] Project Management Training
initiative with you.

[00:00:23.19] I am excited for three reasons.

[00:00:26.16] First, I am a 100% believer

[00:00:29.27] in the power of effective
project management.

[00:00:32.08]

[00:00:33.08] One of the great things
about being a consultant

[00:00:36.24] is that you get to travel from
organization to organization

[00:00:40.23] and see a multitude
of differences

[00:00:43.04] in how organizations
and people perform.

[00:00:47.00]

A great way to add captions is to use World Caption – free from the University of Wisconsin.
http://lss.wisc.edu/worldcaption

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Thanks,
Jules

Thanks for the tutorial, it was really useful. I know this is an old article but if there is anyone out there who could tell me if its possible to make the subtitle background transparent the help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

Is there anyone that has a clue?
Leif