 Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Roesel here. Today another video about KadenLive, the open-source cross-platform video editor, beloved by many. Sometimes buggy, recently like getting less buggy, constantly advancing, which is what's important, is that the project is not static, it's moving forward regularly. And one of the recent additions in the recent releases of KadenLive has been the ability to format subtitles, which is very useful. Now, for some reason I've done a lot of videos about subtitles on this YouTube channel recently. I covered one that I think is more important than others regarding the pros and cons of hard subtitling. In other words, of adding your subtitles in to the actual video file versus uploading subtitles if you're distributing video through YouTube as SRT files so that people can turn on and turn off the captions. As I explained, there are pros and cons of both approaches. Really the biggest con of the hard code subtitles is they're at the moment mostly not machine readable. So you've got an SEO advantage for using embedded subtitles. Obviously you can turn them on and off embedded subtitles so people don't need the subtitles. They don't need to have them clutter up the screen. And there's more as well that I think basically for most people it's a better practice not to use hard coded subtitles if you can use embedded subtitles. You can also easily allow people to translate the subtitles automatically and that's going to become as I predicted in that video more and more of a thing as YouTube continues to increase language support for its automatic subtitle translation. Now what I wanted to show in today's video is how you can use this new feature in CadenLive Subtitling to kind of approximate the subtitles that you may be used to seeing on YouTube. So what he did is I loaded up a random documentary on YouTube that has subtitles and I'm going to just turn them on now by clicking the subtitle icon. Now this is what most people are familiar with when it comes to subtitles on YouTube. So let's just have a look at what they're doing with those subtitles. So it's white subtitles, it's a sans serif font of some type and it's on a black background with no opacity as far as I can see at least a mile and it's totally black. So you've got that good optical contrast which actually makes them pretty easy to read. Now what some folks may not have realized is that you can actually change how the subtitles appear on YouTube by clicking into the settings cog wheel then go into the subtitles menu and then you've got a little button here for options and this will actually allow us to see exactly how the subtitles in YouTube are configured and then to get YouTube like subtitles in CadenLive well we pretty much just need to do a copying operation. So the font we're using here is proportional sans serif, font color is white, font size is 100, background color is black I was wrong about the opacity it's actually 75% and it's laid out in the bottom. Those are the main credentials if you will of those subtitles. So what I'm going to do now is drag over CadenLive and this is just a random video of me cooking Malakia. I don't actually know exactly what I said in the seconds I'm just going to add like a junk subtitle and then we're going to take the bulgar out of the Instant Pot. Okay and now I've already done a little bit of playing around with the subtitle options. Now subtitles have been in CadenLive for a while so these if you're using CadenLive for subtitling this probably isn't new to you. Where the new feature is located is this little button. It's called show style options that's the hover text it's just to the right of the update subtitle text button. So if I click into that we're going to get our options now and we can have a look at the way these subtitles are appearing here. To me they can use a bit of improvement here. So for a custom font I'm not sure a proportional sans serif is the name of a font but whatever you can scroll through your fonts. It doesn't look like it might be a descriptor let's just go for something like this. Pedana and now for custom font size you can just bring it up to a point that looks big enough and as you can see the subtitle is appearing here. Now for opaque background we're going to have a black background and we can also do a custom font color as well as a custom outline and a custom shadow. So you can see there's no shadow currently and I can add a bit of shadow onto the text that again it's easier to make sense of. Now we also have a custom position so we can do bottom center for example if we want our subtitles to be at the top we could do top center and now you can see our subtitles up there. Personally that looks a bit weird. So in terms of the kind of granularity of the options here I would say we are still lacking some for instance being able to control the percentage of opacity as you can in YouTube would have been a very useful option as well as that changing the background the color of the background you can either toggle on or off the opaque background. So again you know these are little things most people are going to want a black background and you're not going to want to put orange background to your subtitles but maybe those additional styling features will be available in future updates to K&L Live. So anyway for the moment this is definitely an improvement I think the main subtitle edit that most people would want to make in terms of options is adding that black background playing around with the subtitle size until you've got something that makes sense for your video and playing around with the font until you've got something you're happy with and that's very nice and readable and I think it's probably pretty rare that people are going to want to have subtitles anywhere other than the bottom of the screen but if you did want to run your subtitles along the top you could do that using these new features on Kaden. Hope that video was useful. If you don't want to get more videos from me do feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel. Thank you guys for watching.