# Computer question - Mac iMovie '08, ver. 7.1.4 (585)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 4, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-question-mac-imovie-08-ver-7-1-4-585/520043 "2009-12-04T23:21:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-question-mac-imovie-08-ver-7-1-4-585/520043/1 "2009-12-04T23:21:38Z")

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Does anyone out there use the iMovie program enough to help me out? I’m using iMovie 7.1.4, better known as iMovie '08.

I have a video of me singing, and I want to add subtitles. Because it’s music, I don’t want to break it into clips because the sound is supposed to be continuous. I do want to add a line by line translation with subtitles, but iMovie refuses to do more than one title per clip. Does anyone know of a work-around that doesn’t involve cutting up the original video? Please let me know…

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-question-mac-imovie-08-ver-7-1-4-585/520043/2 "2009-12-05T08:05:16Z")

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Just break it into clips.  
They get seamlessly combined on the timeline.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-question-mac-imovie-08-ver-7-1-4-585/520043/3 "2009-12-05T14:26:01Z")

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Do you mean it won’t do more than one subtitle track?

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-question-mac-imovie-08-ver-7-1-4-585/520043/4 "2009-12-05T14:41:02Z")

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I just looked at my copy of iMovie and I’m not sure how to add subtitles at all. In VLC Media Player, I can open a subtitle track alongside the movie file and play the two simultaneously. It looks like I can also save the video along with the open subtitles.