FREE Ai Generated Subtitles in the FREE Version of DaVinci Resolve - Magic Subtitles Lite

AI generated subtitles in the free

version of Da Vinci Resolve. I grab my

create subtitles, put it on my timeline,

give it a click in the inspector.

There's a few options. I'm going to hit

create subtitles, and then we just wait

for a moment. And while we wait, it's a

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over at audio. But more on those in a

moment. It's exported a video. It's now

transcribing. And just like that, we

have proper AI generated subtitles in

the free version of Da Vinci Resolve.

Then I can grab my other magic subtitles

light, put it on the timeline, ingest

those subtitles, then change the font,

the style, add drop shadows, do a load

of stuff to make these subtitles look

exactly how we like them, and more.

What's going on, folks? It's Alex here,

and yes, Magic Subtitles Light is here.

This is my subtitle plugin that's

designed for the free version of Da

Vinci Resolve. And yes, there's a

completely free version for you to

download and use today. There is also a

full version of light which is just 20

bucks and that includes 33 different

templates and it does a load of

additional funky word for word

animations and stuff as well, but we'll

come back to that a little bit later.

First up, essential information and how

it works. You do need to be on at least

Da Vinci Resolve version 20.2.1

to get this to work. So you need to be

on a late current version of Da Vinci

Resolve free or studio. Although, if you

are on the studio version, I highly

recommend that you check out Magic

Subtitles Pro instead, which is designed

for the studio version, but it just uses

the in-built transcriptions and in-built

AI generated subtitles within Da Vinci

Resolve Studio instead, plus some other

fancy UI things that you just can't do

in the free version. Now, this was

designed primarily on Windows, but I

have tested it and it does work on both

Windows and MacOSS.

So, how does it actually work? Well,

it's all thanks to something called Open

AI's Whisper. Open AAI are the guys that

make Chat GPT, and they made Whisper,

which is a free offline transcription

package engine thing that does these

transcriptions. However, it is a bit of

a faf to use on its own. Fortunately,

some nice individual out there created

something called Vibe. Vibe uses

Whisper, so it uses the same thing, but

it just has a really nice UI on it, and

some other nice nicities in the

background, which make it way easier to

use. It's also completely free. You can

download it and install it, and you do

need to install it to make these AI

generated subtitles in Magic Subtitles

Light actually work. Now, no affiliation

with them at all. I just found it and it

works. It makes for a really nice

solution. It's been really good. So, we

integrated with it to make all of this

possible. So, the very first thing you

need to do is to head over to the Vibe

website. It's linked down below and

download and install Vibe for your

system. While you're here, this is free.

So, I do recommend if you can consider

supporting Vibe so they can continue

doing what they're doing. I will be

doing so as well with a proportion of

the money that comes in from Magic

Subtitles Light. install it, leave the

destination folder as it is, and then

run Vibe. The very first time that you

run it, it will download the Open AI

model, which is required to get this to

work. It's about a gig, so it may take a

little bit of time depending on your

internet connection. Once that's done, I

highly recommend that you actually just

test it for yourself. drop in a video

file, hit transcribe, and make sure that

it actually works on your system, which

as you can see, it's working perfectly

on mine. If it does, then you're good to

go. You can close down Vibe, leave it

installed. It's actually handy to have

installed anyway, just in case you want

to do some transcriptions without

jumping into Da Vinci Resolve or

whatever, and then you're good to go.

You can start using Magic Subtitles

Light installation. To get it installed,

head over to the link down in the

description below to take you to this

Magic Subtitles Light free version. Drop

in your email and hit get now. You'll

end up with a zip file. Just unpack

that, open the folder, and you'll see

magic subtitles light. DRFX.

Doubleclick that. Da Vinci Resolve will

open and it'll ask you if you wish to

install Magic Subtitles Light. Simply

hit install and then you should be good

to go. Boom. Right, let's actually

create some subtitles. So once

installed, jump over to the effects

library, come down to titles, magic

toolkit, magic subtitles light, and in

the free version, you just get two. So

there is a create subtitles. There's

actually two different ways to create

the subtitles. You can use this

dedicated one. You just bring it on your

timeline. It can be wherever you like.

Then just give it a click. Open up the

inspector. We have some controls. There

is also a how-to. So, this will just

really quickly give you a rough idea of

what you need to do. Download, install,

check it, make sure it works, whatever.

And then we have our controls. We can

select the language or leave it as auto.

We can select the track that we wish to

transcribe. So, track one, track two,

three, four, or five. I'm going to leave

it as track one. And then you can do

your characters per sub. Now, the way

that whisper works, it's not

particularly accurate if you make this

really, really low. So, I know some

people may want to have it as like one

word per subtitle. Rather than doing

that here, you do that later within

magic subtitles light because the way

that whisper works, it kind of groups

words together. So, if you set it too

low, the timing really sort of goes off.

So, about 35 or 40 is really good for

me. I found you can come a little bit

lower or go a bit higher if you want to.

And then we've got this transcribe

context. I'll give you a demonstration

of that in a moment. Then you simply hit

create subtitles and it's just going to

take this entire timeline. Whichever one

you're on, it'll do a really quick quick

export, which again, how long this takes

will depend on your system and the

length of the timeline. You'll see this

pop-up appear. This pop-up won't appear

on Mac. You just kind of have to sit and

wait, and it should eventually come

through. And then your subtitles will

appear just like so. Now, let me just

delete those. If you want to jump

straight into the magic subtitles light,

you can just drop this straight on here.

And there is a dedicated vibe tab which

has the same controls. So the create

subtitles is just there for ease. If you

just want to drop that on and then when

you're done with it, you can delete it

or you can just start straight from this

magic subtitles light. We'll create

subtitles once again with a click of a

button. And tada, we now have subtitles.

Now, the really cool thing about this is

this is just a standard subtitle track

within Da Vinci Resolve, which means you

can click on the actual track heading

over here, open up the subtitles track,

amend any spelling, go to the timeline,

amend any of the timing if you need to.

You just treat it exactly the same as a

normal subtitle track in Da Vinci

Resolve. Then, within Magic Subtitles

Light, so I'm still on the vibe tab. I

need to jump over to the text tab. this

little line of buttons here. These are

your ingest methods. I'll cover the

others later. The main one is this subs.

So, what this allows you to do, you put

this wherever you want to create the

subtitles on your actual timeline. Then,

you click subs. And what it'll simply do

is just gobble up the subtitles above it

and bring them into this magic subtitles

light as you can see here. So, the cool

thing is, let's just open up the effects

library. We'll grab another one. bring

this over here. Let's say we want all of

this to have a nice subtitle, a nice

caption. So, we lengthen that out. We

give it a click. We hit subs. And there

we go. We're ingesting those subtitles

from that track into this magic

subtitles light, which we can then

customize and do some really cool stuff

with. Oh, and before I forget, here's a

super quick example of what to do with

that transcribe context box. So, this

timeline here is a conversation between

me and Casey for our podcast. So, we'll

just let this transcription run. And

generally speaking, what it likes to do

is get his surname wrong. Casey Ferris.

There's two Rs in there. So, in this

context box, let's just do podcast

between Mr. Alex Tech and Casey

Ferris. And then hit create subtitles.

And we're just giving the AI, the

transcription, just a little bit of

context. You don't want to go mad with

this and give it too much information,

but you can change the style and you can

inform it of any spellings or names that

you're using that it doesn't recognize.

And then hopefully it has it's now

correct. Now, obviously, if that was

only incorrect once, you could change it

manually once. But if you're saying that

over and over again on quite a big

timeline, that's incredibly useful. It's

smart. Right now, you can't actually do

that in the studio version of Da Vinci

Resolve. So, Blackmagic, if you're

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because if you're using the in-built

transcriptions or the in-built subtitles

within the studio version of Dav Vinci

Resolve, just being able to give it some

key names and some key spellings and

fixes and stuff like that so that it

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talking magic subtitles light.

Right, customization. So, we've got this

magic subtitles light here, and we've

ingested all of these subtitles from

above. Now, the line brakes will be

exactly the same as the actual subtitles

on the subtitles track. But if you want

to customize them, you can. You can just

come into this top box, do a little

enter there, and then you click update

line brakes. And now we'll have two

subtitles at the beginning, timeline

open. We click on a. So, you can

separate them out. If you need to do any

spelling fixes, again, the easiest way

is to do it within this subtitles track.

But if you have ingested them into the

magic subtitles light and then you spot

a little error or something you need to

fix, you can use these next and previous

to jump between the different chunks.

And then if we say jump was wrong, we

actually wanted it to be dive, then we

change it and hit apply change and it

will just apply within here. Then we've

got configure line brakes. So by default

it will be this line break mode. But if

you prefer you can switch over to

autobreak mode. Autobreak will basically

take all of these line breaks and then

automatically break them up for you

based on these controls down here. So if

we want to change the words per sub, we

can just bring this down to let's say

two and now we get two words plus. Then

we select a different timeline. So the

timing will be exactly the same. It's

just that we're only seeing two words at

once. Or if you want to go down to one,

you can. And then we can really quickly

jump between the two time. We've also

then got things like break at end of

sentence. So if we're in auto mode and

we're doing let's say 12 words per sub,

you can see here we have a full stop

after project, we may want that to

actually end this subtitle. So if we

change break to always break, then it

will end after that full stop that

period. Above that we have remove

punctuation. So if you don't want any of

this punctuation at all, you can click

that and it will remove it. There is a

little punctuation to remove. So if

there's anything else, you can just type

it in the box, update, and it will

remove that punctuation. Lastly, we've

got case. So original case, everything

is uppercase, title case, or lower case.

So they're kind of the main I want to

adjust the subtitle chunking or whatever

kind of controls. The rest of it within

here is pretty much a standard text

plus. So the text plus titles you've

used before in Da Vinci Resolve. So, if

we scroll down to text, we have font,

and these are all of your pre-installed

fonts. So, let's say I want to use

something like this one, whatever this

is. Then, we can change the style, bold

or regular. We can change the color.

Let's go with a little bit of a yellow.

We can change the sizing, the spacing,

and the line spacing. We've then got

things like justify. We can anchor it to

the top or the bottom, the left, or the

right using those controls. And at the

top, we can go over to layout. is in a

text box by default. So, if you click on

this little dropdown and enable the

Fusion overlay, you'll be able to see

your text box and you can just change

the size of this. If you don't want

that, you can change this to point or

you can change it to something like

circle and have a little circle instead

or a path or whatever you want to do. We

can change the rotation. We can put a

background on there. We can go to

transform and do all of the controls

within there. And we can go to shading.

So, white solid fill. That's the main

text color. If we go to number two and

enable that, we get this red outline. If

we wanted the red outline to be blue, we

can change it to blue. If we wanted it

to be thicker, we can change the

thickness. We could change the opacity.

We can change all of these controls

within here, however you like. Go to

number three, enable a drop shadow.

Number four, customize it to be

something else. You just amend all of

these as you usually would within a text

plus. Simples. Now, there is of course

more you can do with this because I

didn't want to have to rely entirely on

these AI generated subtitles. There may

be instances where someone sends you an

SRT file and you want to do it based off

that instead. Or you've written a script

and you want to create your subtitles

using a script instead. There's some

cool workflows built into this to allow

you to do just that. So, let's say

someone sent you an SRT file like I've

got here. There's two ways to do this.

This is actually a neat trick you might

not know you can do in Dav Vinci Resolve

3. Anyway, if you've got an SRT file,

just click drag and you'll be able to

drop this on your timeline and it will

actually automatically create a subtitle

track from that SRT. So, if you're using

a different service to do your

transcriptions or someone's just sent

you an SRT file, drop it on your

timeline just like so, then we can grab

magic subtitle light, put it underneath

here, and then grab the subs just like

so, and that'll work in exactly the same

way. Alternatively, put a magic subtitle

light on the timeline. There is a

dedicated SRT button. Give that a click.

It will open up your file browser. Jump

over to the SRT file and double click.

And that will just import that SRT with

the timings directly into this magic

subtitles light. So you've got

everything within here. Once again, you

can then go and manually update the line

brakes if you need to fix any spellings

within this bottom box and apply changes

and switch over to the auto break mode

to change the words per sub and amend it

as you need to. So, SRT files covered.

What about manually just typing things

in? Or if you've got a bit of a script

H. So, if you've just got a really small

section, you just want to do a nice

little subtitle, you can. So, I've

dropped a magic subtitle light. I'm not

going to import anything. I'm just going

to type in the box. What do I say here?

>> And this is something I think everyone

should enable.

>> And this is something I think everyone

should enable. I'm doing my spaces where

I want my line breaks. Then I'm going to

click dump all and it's just going to

drop those in there. And this is

something I think everyone should

enable. And there you go. So now we've

created these subtitles. Now by clicking

on dump all, it's basically put these

subtitles into this magic subtitles

light, but it has no idea of the timing.

So then what you can do is click on this

export markers and that will put the

markers on the timeline that show where

those subtitles start and then you can

just tweak them from there.

>> And this is something

>> I think needs to start there.

>> I think everyone should

>> and this one should enable

>> everyone should enable. Then we go back

to our magic subtitles light and we

click markers to pull in those markers.

And now we can hit play.

>> And this is something I think everyone

should enable. And now the timing is

pretty good. Alternatively, if you've

got a bit of a script like I have here,

you can just copy the script. Let's grab

the first few lines. We'll copy this.

We'll paste this in here. And then

rather than clicking on dump all, there

is an individual button. And what this

will do, if we put our playhead at the

beginning, individual, this is something

I think everyone should enable. And this

is something I think everyone should

enable. And then when the next line is

about to start, even if you don't really

use stacked timelines, there's a button

that says end the current chunk, which

will end the existing one and start the

new one. Even if you don't really use

stacked timelines, even if you don't

really use stacked timelines. Next one,

because inside that little button, hide,

it's some really useful little

shortcuts.

>> And there you go. And now we've timed

that. And this is something I think

everyone should enable. Even if you

don't really use stacked timelines,

>> if you did get it wrong, you can still

come along and just tweak any of these

little markers. And then we just click

markers. And that'll pull in those

markers just like so.

>> Everyone should enable.

>> And there's one last thing I haven't

shown you. So, if this is all working,

but you kind of don't want everything in

one big magic subtitles light, that's

super handy because you can obviously

customize everything in one place.

change all the fonts, do whatever you

need to do. But once you've done that,

you may then want them as individual

text plus on your timeline. So then you

can tweak the timing that little bit

more just to make sure everything is

perfect. You can do that, too. So we've

got a magic subtitles light here. We've

ingested these subtitles. We've made any

changes. We've changed the font. Let's

go to shading and maybe put a red

outline on here. Let's change the color.

Make it a black outline. Something like

that. And we're happy with this. Now,

the timing is pretty good, but we want

to maybe tweak it just that little bit

more. All you need to do, jump over to

the media pool. Once you've customized

your magic subtitle light, just drag it

from the timeline into your media pool

and you'll see you have a magic subtitle

light appear within there. Then on the

one on your timeline, go back to the

text tab and there is an export chunks.

Give that a click and it'll export all

of the individual lines, the individual

subtitles as their own dedicated text

plus on the timeline.

>> This is something I think everyone

>> and then you can come along and just

tweak these.

>> And this is something I think everyone

should enable.

>> Should enable

>> should enable even if you don't really

use stat

>> delete any that you don't want timeline.

>> Do what you need to do. Tada. And that

is all available completely for free.

Now try that free version. Give it a go.

There might be bugs. There might be

issues. It's trying to do an awful lot

in a relatively limited amount of space.

So the UI could be better, but you can't

really do much with it. I wanted this to

feel really native and built in. And you

can do nice pop-ups in the studio

version, which work really well. You

can't do those in the free version, but

try it and let me know. Now, if you do

like it and you do want it to do more

stuff, you want it to do more word for

word animations and you want more

templates and whatever else, that's

where the full version of Magic

Subtitles Light comes in. So, I won't

bore you too much, but let me give you a

quick example to show you what the

difference is and what the full version

can do. So, we've got a timeline here.

We've already created the subtitles.

We've installed the full version. So,

rather than just one, we have 33

different templates. You've got single

line, which is the same as the free

version. We've also then got a double

line version, which allows you to do

multiple lines and give them different

styles, and then all of the others

pretty much allow for word for word

animations. So, if we grab something

like cartoon, bring this down, put this

on the timeline, we'll lengthen this out

a little bit. All of the buttons are

exactly the same. So, let's just hit

subs. That's going to ingest the subs.

But what it will do, it will take the

subtitle, it will take the start and end

times and do its best to try and figure

out when the words are being said. So,

it is key that you make sure these

subtitles are as accurate as can be. And

then if we hit play, hopefully this will

line up pretty well. And this is

something I think everyone should

enable, even if you don't really use

stacked timelines, because inside that

little button hides some really useful

little shortcut. So, if we try a

different one, let's go with something

like story time. We put this under here.

We do the same thing, subs. And this is

something I think everyone should

enable. Now, to do this, we're actually

using a little word engine thing I've

built. You can change the speech preset.

There's default, casual, educational,

dramatic, fast, sports, and comedy. It

doesn't do a huge amount if I'm honest,

but it does just tweak things

>> just that little bit. Now let's grab a

different one like this subhub. We'll

bring this one over and we'll do the

subtitles. Now because we do have word

for word animations that allows us to do

other things like we have a write-on

effect which is on by default for this

template. So each of the words appear

one by one. We can toggle that off. So

then the highlight moves.

>> I think everyone should enable instead.

We can then adjust the animation speed,

the offset timing and all this other

stuff. There's also an additional tab

for all of these called style. So, if we

jump over to style, we can change all of

the animation styles and the

backgrounds. So, this one, the spoken

word is black and we have a yellowy

orangey background. If we want the

spoken word to be a different color, we

can open this up. Let's go with like a

blue. And we want the highlight to be,

let's just make it a bit audacious, go

with red. And now we have this.

>> And this is something I think. So you

can customize all of the different

animations. You can do the start and the

end. So if I wanted these to also

dissolve in, we can

>> I think

>> if you wanted to change the tracking of

the spoken word, the angle of the spoken

word, we can even change some softness

and we can put some wobble on all of

these. And you can really customize how

these look. Now, another great way just

to customize the timing to make sure

it's perfect. We've ingested this. Let's

say we just customize it. We've got it

looking however we want it to look.

Let's grab this underlined and drag it

into my media pool. Then I can give this

one a click and we will export the

chunks which will export individual text

plus and each of these will have the

word for word animations inside that.

>> Then if you need to customize these you

can. You just drag them over make them

shorter or longer or move them or

whatever you need to do. Give it a click

refresh the timing. that'll refresh the

word for word timing within each of

these magic subtitles later inside that

little to make them work. Now, here's a

super quick tip. This isn't well

documented cuz I've run out of space,

but if you've gone through and you've

amended a bunch of these, so you've got

the timings perfectly, you know, you've

moved all these around to get them nice,

but you don't want to have to

individually click on all of them and

reset the timing. Go back to the main

one and then just hit export chunks

again.

It'll recognize that all of these exist

above it and it will just go through and

refresh all of the timing.

>> This is something I think everyone

should enable even if you don't really

use stacked timelines.

>> There you go. Nice. Now, let's just grab

one more. This one's called smooth move.

We'll drag this one over. We'll ingest

the subs. We have this little animation

as they pop in.

>> Everyone should enable.

>> We go to style once again and customize

this. Let's make the start a bit crazy.

And this is something I think everyone

should enable. Like so. All of these

also have a highlight. So if you want

certain words to appear in a different

color, let's say the word enable, we

want to be red. And the word everyone,

it's commaepparated list. So you type

those in. Enable. Apply. And now when

everyone and enable are said, everyone

should enable, they're red and

everything else stays as white. Last but

not least, if you have customized these,

there is a built-in saver tool. So,

let's say this one is called smooth red

highlight, whatever. And then we'll hit

save. Can then just delete this one. You

may need to restart Da Vinci Resolve to

get this to appear. But now within

titles and magic toolkit, magic

subtitles light, we now have a user

subtitles smooth red highlight. We can

bring this down, put it on any timeline

in the future. Just hit subs to

overwrite what was in there with the new

version. And now we have that animation

we amended still with our highlight

effect being applied and it's good to

go. Sorry this was a longer video than

expected. I like to talk about these

things cuz I'm excited about it and it's

taken me ages to make.

So there you go. Enjoy. Let me know your

thoughts and feedback and whatever else.

Thanks for watching. Take it easy. I'll

see you next time.