How to Add Open Captions with HandBrake

You just exported your subtitles and looking for a way to add open captions into your video? It’s actually super easy to do!

Today we’re going to show you how to add open captions with HandBrake, a simple and free online tool.

TIP – If you’re still looking for a way to create and download subtitles for your video file, you can use our online automatic subtitling tool. You can export your subtitles in SRT, JSON, VTT, and other formats.

We only need 2 things to start with:

1 – an SRT file with your subtitles

2 – your video file

• Launch HandBrake → Open your video file

• Go to Subtitles tab → Import SRT

• Choose language and offset settings
• Click browse and select the file name and location
• In case you want to have open captions on your video, make sure to tick the checkbox “Burn in”.
• Press “Encode”

If you want to know more about captioning we’ve explained the difference between open and closed captions in one of our posts – be sure to check it out, if you haven’t already!