How to Add Subtitles to Your iTunes Movies and Videos

These are instructions on how to add subtitles to your movies and videos so they can be watched using iTunes and the Apple TV.

To follow these steps you will need a program called Submerge which can be downloaded from here. There may be other programs which offer similar functionality but we have found Submerge to work quite well.

Step One
Install then launch Submerge from your Applications folder.



Step Two
Select Open from the File menu.


Step Three
Select the video file you would like to add subtitles to then click the Open button.




Step Four
Click the Choose button in the toolbar.


Step Five
Select the .srt subtitle file for your video then click the Open button.


Step Six
Submerge will render the subtitles onto your video.


Step Seven
You can now skip through the video or movie and make sure the subtitles are correct.


Step Eight
Use the Settings button on the toolbar to open the Settings drawer.


From here you can customize how your subtitles look. You can set the font, attributes, relative size, alignment, text/plate, and time offset.


Step Nine
Once done customizing the look of your subtitles click the Render button on the toolbar to commit the changes.


Step Ten
In order to view subtitles in iTunes we must hard code the subtitles into the movie or video. Select Save As from the File menu.


Step Eleven
Enter a name for the new subtitled file then click the Save button.


Step Twelve
Submerge will now create a new file with the subtitles hard coded into it. This does not require recoding of the video so it is very fast. It shouldn't take more then a minute or so for a full length movie.

You can then drag the movie or video into iTunes to import it as you normally would.