How to Add Subtitles to MKV on Mac/Win?

Add SRT to MKV, Add ASS to MKV, Add SSA to MKV, Add SUB to MKV, Add IDX to MKV

Oct 9, 2017, Updated by Shirley White

Overview

The following article introduces a step by step guide on how to add subtitles to MKV such as add SRT to MKV, add ASS to MKV, add SSA to MKV, add SUB to MKV, and add IDX to MKV.

Before start adding subtitles to MKV, take a few seconds on the brief introduction below on how to get subtitles.

  • Download subtitles from Opensubtitles.org with thousands of translated subtitles uploaded daily;
  • Get subtitles from moviesubtitles.org where you can find subtitles for the most popular movies and TV films;
  • Extract subtitles from video clips in hand with this step by step guide on how to extract subtitles from video.

Note: If you want to add subtitles to MP4 or add subtitles to AVI, visit here: how to add subtitles to MP4 or how to add subtitles to AVI.

How to Add Subtitles to MKV

To add subtitles to MKV, you need a tool - Faasoft MKV Subtitles Adder (for Mac, for Windows), which will help you easily embed subtitles in SRT, ASS, SSA, SUB, etc format to MKV on Mac and Windows.

Hot Features of This Tool

  • Add all kinds of subtitles to MKV such as add SRT to MKV, add ASS to MKV, add SSA to MKV, add SUB to MKV, as well as keep or change MKV to other video formats like MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG, ASF, DV, RM, WebM, OGV, etc;
  • Except add subtitles to MKV, this tool also has many other hot edit functions, for example, remove or extract subtitles from MKV, cut or crop MKV, add effect/watermark/background music to MKV, rotate MKV files, adjust bitrate/sample rate/volume of MKV, compress MKV files, change aspect ratio of MKV file, extract audio from MKV;
  • Embed subtitles to almost all kinds of video formats like MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV, ASF, WebM, OGV, TS, MTS, M2TS, MOD, MPEG, H.263, H.264, Apple ProRes, F4V, SWF, MXF, MVI, M4V, QT, DAT, 720p/1080p AVCHD and more;
  • Better still, this powerful program also enables to convert more than 160 kinds of video files, no matter in SD, HD or 3D, with high quality.

Add Subtitles to MKV

Before add subtitles to MKV, take a few seconds to download and install the wonderful Faasoft MKV Subtitles Adder on your Mac or Windows. And then follow the three steps to easily add subtitles to MKV. Here we take add SRT to MKV as example.

Step 1 Import MKV to the program

Directly drag and drop your MKV file to the main interface of the program to load MKV files. It's so fast.

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Step 2 Add SRT to MKV

Click "Effect" button to open the "Video Edit" window and switch to "Subtitle" pane in which you can add and edit subtitles. The original subtitles will all be listed in the subtitle list. Click "+" to add a subtitle file from your local disk. It will be displayed in the subtitle list. Repeat this step to add multiple subtitles.

Tips: 1. Click "-" to delete the added in subtitles. 2. So far, this tool only supports adding and customizing one subtitle to output video. 3. Edit the subtitles like font, color, size, style and more.

Step 3 Start adding SRT to MKV

After all set are done, just click the big "Convert" button on the bottom right corner of the program to finish adding SRT to MKV.

Note: Click "Profile" drop-down button of the tool to select output format, if you want to change MKV to other video formats as well as add subtitles to MKV.