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I have a project for school, and I definitely need to ad french sutitles (I go to a french school) to the video "Bear in the woods" (1984). Since the subtitle track is unexistent, i need to create it, but how???

You write a subtitles file with any adequate editor, and tell VLC to open it.

I also need to create subtitles for a homemade video and am looking for how to do it. Do you have any examples of any "adequate editor" that I could use? Or other thoughts on how to write my own subtitles for a video that I am making? All the advice I've found is about how to add already existing subtitle files to a movie, but I need to actually create a subtitle file. Thanks

.srt SubRip text file format is recommended format for your subtitles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip
All you need is a simple text editor like Notepad in Windows, but you better use some dedicated subtitle editor:
http://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit
http://www.visualsubsync.org
http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?cat=sw&lang=1

Thanks! Any suggestions for the best program to use on a Mac?

It is very simple,
Step 1 :- Open a notepad (Example test.txt)
Step 2 : Enter subtitles in bellow format, each is a group of 3 lines followed by a blank line
Line 1 = Subtitle number
Line 2 = "Starting time" then "-->" then "Ending time"
Line 3 = your subtitle or the test you want to enter

example
1
00:01:32,122 --> 00:01:34,283
Hi All

2
00:01:34,458 --> 00:01:37,450
This is my first subtitling
By Shree Ammu

NOTE-1 : The time is in format HH:MM:SS,milliseconds i.e. Hours:Minutes:Seconda,Milliseconds
Every Minute have 1000 milliseconds
This gives you a great felxibility to match you subtile to the Voice / Sound being played

Note-2 : Additionally you can use HTML tags to give colours and founts as per your wish.


Step 3 : Save the File
Step 4: rename the file with extension ".srt" (Example text.srt)


That's it you are ready with the subtitle file, you can import this file into VLC from option
Subtitle--->Add Subtitle File

Enojy the Subtiteling
Thanks
Shree Ammu