Problem Creating an MKV Vdeo

[Hirnsausen]

I created subtitles, and clicked "Create video with embedded subtitles" and there included the path to the SUB subtitle file in this window (see screenshot below). But the resulting MPB video is always just 2 Kb in size, too short, nothing to see. It should be 27 minutes long. I am new to it, I am sure the mistake is on my side. Advises welcome, thanks.

[xylographe]

My advice would be to use MKVToolNix to create Matroska containers.

[AuroraMartell]

My advice would be to use MKVToolNix to create Matroska containers.

Yeah, that's what I do.

[Safiralilas]

Hello, I'm the same Brazilian woman who answered your other post. .mkv is annoying, it doesn't accept many things, but you can do it the right way. Save your subtitles separately. Don't merge the video file with the subtitles in SE. It needs to be the right audio with the right subtitles. SE doesn't do these functions well. Use MKV Toolnix. There, you put the original video, uncheck what you don't want, put other files inside. You can put several subtitle formats, several audio formats, 2 or more subtitle tracks, audios, and whatever else appears. You can remove what is unnecessary. It doesn't accept some files, like Microsoft, for example, .wav and others. But it's the best program for this. As I told you in the answer to your other post, I use about 10 programs to exchange the result I want in the end.

[Hirnsausen]

Um abraco! Thanks again!
Yes, I saw that the timing of the subtitles is not always equal to the time of speeches in the resulting MKV.
I then made an MP4 with "burned in" subtitles. I did all that before seeing your comments here.

What kind of videos are you actually creating? Are some of them on Youtube?

On a side note: your profile image is AI-generated.
https://www.google.com/search?vsrid=CIGXkcLmqOCU9wEQAhgBIiQ5Y2E2NTE4NC0xODlkLTQyNjYtOTg4Yi00MjVhZDgzNWQ2MWI&gsessionid=-lGuoS7e8tmP9TgA0Sc9XpgrlTvB9UntQ0XufRda-5v2yMSvVlANnQ&lsessionid=VJMBm-s1cFVVnF0reaY2dxoaL9rcYyNJ6Uc6TT3CeBJga-FGG-GlfA&vsdim=460,460&vsint=CAIqDAoCCAcSAggKGAEgATojChYNAAAAPxUAAAA_HQAAgD8lAACAPzABEMwDGMwDJQAAgD8&lns_mode=un&source=lns.web.gsbubb&udm=26&lns_surface=26&lns_vfs=e&qsubts=1744581914599&biw=1440&bih=774&hl=en-JM

[Safiralilas]

YT is annoying. A lot of the stuff I put up is taken down due to copyright, but I have some stuff there, but nothing on the same level as what I do for my own use. I'm now uploading some stuff to archive.org, there's going to be a lot of stuff there. Look for my profile there, but I'm focused on putting up audios in Brazilian Portuguese in some very interesting ones that don't have dubbing. My photo was generated by AI from my Facebook profile picture. I always appear, I don't wear masks. Find me there. The name is always the same. I just dubbed an episode of Apocalypse World War 1 that didn't exist in Portuguese and it was perfect, but many times you need to trick the SE with strange settings because really, the AI ​​voice still knows very little, sometimes you have to make a subtitle without any rules, with long paragraphs, and write the words exactly as they are pronounced, English suffers much less from this, but other languages ​​are terrible and the AI, even the best ones, don't make a perfect text to speech, but MINE WAS PERFECT, it's a shame that the only voice I could get was "faber do Piper", it's not very good for documentaries but it was what was available at the time. The hardest thing was getting him to say Ernest Hemingway (mentioned in episode 5) correctly, it was a lot of work.

[Safiralilas]

Complementing: your avatar is interesting but you are Sven Littkowski, you have lived in Jamaica since 2007, you have a media company and you were there when the Berlin Wall fell, you lived on the western side, this is a subject that I am delving into, translating and dubbing series and docs about the wars in Germany, you speak English very well and certainly German too, I didn't understand your difficulty with words, but I'm just here to help. While you were going with the corn I had already eaten the popcorn.

[Hirnsausen]

Nice reply (corn). Actually, your AI photo is being used by many persons worldwide.

That is the thing: only US movies make it really all around the world, good movies from other countries don't show as the language dubbing is done only for a very few.

[Safiralilas]

You're absolutely right. There are countless excellent films and documentaries made in countries that are not part of the production elite. It's very difficult to make relatively decent subtitles for these films. However, I recently watched two films that impressed me with their consistent story and the quality of the effects. I found German subtitles for them, just imagine a Chinese film subtitled in German. So I translated them into English and then into Portuguese here in Brazil. It was a very difficult task. My subtitles are already circulating around. I've even met "people" who have already taken ownership of them as authors. But anyway, it's over. I was one of the subtitlers for Legendas.tv (which unfortunately closed down) here in Brazil. I don't even speak English, but I read it well. Having multiple skills helps a lot in these cases. Watch The Wandering Earth 1 and 2. I think you'll enjoy them. I liked the profile picture and used it. When I get tired of it, I'll change it.

[Hirnsausen]

Okay, nice biography.
Wishing you a nice week and an even nicer weekend. Bye.