If it’s your first time it might be worth doing a short test using just the first few lines of text, before spending time transcribing everything in case there’s a problem. Watch through your video and type out all the spoken words.
Start a new line for each section or sentence. Keep the sections short, a maximum of 32 characters across two lines is ideal, shorter if possible. Don’t give the viewer too much to read, or not enough time to read it. You’ll quickly get a sense of this when you play it back yourself.
Make a note of the timings
Watch through the video again and make a note of the start and end timings you want for each caption in this format:
00:00:00,000 (Hours:Minutes:Seconds,Milliseconds)
Don’t worry if you can’t see a millisecond counter on your video player. Getting the caption to come in at the nearest second is normally good enough, but you can always tweak the timings if you think it’s needed.
The third element you need is the number of each section. These just run in sequence from 1 upwards.
Now you can piece the three elements together, like so…
1
00:00:02,000 –> 00:00:06,000
This is how you create a SubRip file
2
00:00:07,000 –> 00:00:12,000
It’s easy when you know how
3
00:00:14,000 –> 00:00:18,500
Just follow the step by step instructions
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