How to
Video tutorials to help you get the most out of Spot
Below you'll find links to a series of videos we're putting together on our YouTube channel. The videos range from very basic tutorials to more advanced lessons. We're always adding more, so please let us know if there's a topic you'd like to see covered.
Basic
- Getting started (part zero): Installing Spot
- How to install Spot and get it up and running.
- Getting started (part one): The main window and subtitle edit area
- The main window, basic navigation and the subtitle edit area explained.
- Getting started (part two): Formatting subtitles
- How to format subtitles in Spot with a quick look at Quick View
- Getting started (part three): Working with videos
- How to open videos, control playback and set various video-related options.
- Getting started (part four): Timing subtitles
- How to time subtitles in Spot with focus on Ctrl+Enter.
- Getting started (part five): Checking subtitles
- How to QC your subtitles and link groups of settings to different clients.
- Copying subtitles from external files (part one)
- The first of two videos that look at how to copy and paste subtitles from an external file into the current one. In this tutorial, we investigate the Copy window.
- Copying subtitles from external files (part two)
- The second (and thankfully last) of two videos that look at how to copy and paste subtitles from an external file into the current one. In today's episode: the Quick View method!
Intermediate and advanced
- How to add subtitles to videos
- How to create burnt-in subtitles using Spot's video converter and output the result in any format.
- Working with 23.976 video
- Understanding the difference between 23.976 media time and 24 fps SMPTE timecode.
- How to create auto-timed subtitles
- An introduction to creating auto-timed subtitles based on Spot's speech enhance engine. Please note that this is a deprecated (and not very useful!) function. We recommend you give Spot SubScribe a try instead.
- Speech enhancement
- Spot's speech enhance technology can make it easier to find the start and end of speech in videos with a lot of background noise. Please note that this is a deprecated (and not very useful!) function. We recommend you give Spot SubScribe a try instead.
- Video problems: sound but no image
- Find out what do to if a video plays with sound but no image.
- Video problems: choppy playback
- How to ensure video playback is as smooth as possible.
- Video problems: converting to a different format
- If all else fails, let Spot convert your video!
Frequently asked questions
- Exporting subtitles for use in Adobe Premiere Pro
- How to export subtitles from Spot and open them in Premiere Pro without losing formatting.
- Windows says Spot is infected with a virus
- In a recent Windows Defender update, Microsoft mistakenly included spot.exe in its virus definition list.
