How to synchronize the sub titles of a series or movie on your mobile

If you've already learned how to add sub titles to a series or movie, it's a good idea to go a step further and learn how to synchronize them. This means that there are times, unfortunately, that we download a sub title and what is read does not coincide, in time, with what they are talking about. For this, there are tools that we can use to adjust the times. It is quite simple, although it requires a bit of patience.

To synchronize the sub titles with their corresponding video, we are going to need an application that we can find, free of charge, in the Android application store.This application is MX Player, a very complete app for fans of consuming multimedia content on their mobiles. One of the most interesting functions is being able to directly download the sub title that best suits our video.

Sync your sub titles with MX Player

As we know that there are times when it is difficult to find the sub title, and when we download it it is not synchronized, we are going to teach you how to enjoy the episode directly in the mobile To do this, once you have installed MX Player, we proceed to open it.

Once we have located the video file that we want to open, we select it and click on the video once. A pop-up menu will open where we will have to click on the three-point icon. This settings menu contains the section 'Sub titles', which is what really interests us.

This is where the sub titles are synced

Once we have clicked on this menu, we must go to 'Synchronization'. And this is where the really important thing begins. We must find out what is the offset between the sub title and the video A trick to find out more correctly is to calculate the time between when the first dialogue takes place and when they appear sub titles for the first time.

Slow down or fast forward the sub titles with MX Player

Once you have calculated the time, you must adjust the time in seconds or milliseconds. If the sub titles should start later, you must give the "+" sign and put the desired time. Likewise, if you want them to appear earlier, you must add »-» to the time. A trick in case this is not clear to you: if you want the sub titles to appear later, add timeIf you want them to leave earlier, reduce the time. As simple as this.

Tips on sub titles and synchronization

If you want to synchronize the sub titles from your PC, there are special programs that you can use for this. But if you see your content from your mobile, this is, without a doubt, the easiest option you have in sight. However, to avoid having to use synchronization,we recommend the following tips:

• The sub title must be named the same as the video file. To make sure of that, you just have to go to your phone's file manager and rename them. Give them a title that is simple and easy to identify.
• Look at the name of the video you have downloaded. When looking for the sub title file, should match as much as possible with that one. Look in the comments of the file to see if it is also valid for other versions.
• Download sub titles only from trusted pages. To do this, Google has useful complements in your browser that notify you if any page you have entered may infect you with a virus.

You know synchronize the sub titles of a series or movie on your mobile phone. As you have seen, it is much easier than you thought. From now on, the headaches are over.