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Free subtitles for Vegas Pro from an SRT file

Updated 9 November 2026 · by Szymon at szy.monster

Vegas Pro has added speech-to-text features in recent versions, but they depend on your edition and subscription. Making the SRT for free with Whisper works with any version that can import subtitles.

1. Make the SRT

Open AutoSubtitler, drop in your video and press Make subtitles. Download the .srt. Nothing is uploaded.

2. Bring it into Vegas Pro

How you import it depends on your version:

• Recent versions (20 and later) have a subtitle track. Add one from the Insert menu, then import the .srt into it from the track's options.
• Older versions import captions as markers through the Tools › Scripting menu (for example the "Import Captions" script). They show as closed captions during preview and can be turned into text events.

If you're not sure which you have, search the Vegas help for "subtitles" in your version. The import option is listed there.

3. Style

Subtitle tracks have their own text settings for font, size, colour, outline and position. If your version brings captions in as text events, you can style them like any other title.

4. Render

Render as usual. Subtitles on a subtitle track, or turned into text events, are drawn into the picture. For YouTube, upload the .srt from step 1 separately, so viewers can switch them off: see how to upload an SRT to YouTube.

Tip

Whichever version you have, the hard part is the transcription, and that's done for free in step 1. Fixing a few words in Vegas afterwards is quick.

More editors: free subtitling for video.