- What's up, guys?
It's Andy Feliciotti, and today I wanna talk about
why I pay for captions on my videos.
And no, not like BuzzFeed-y captions.
I mean, like for accessibility reasons.
But I will also show you, at the end of the video,
how to overlay the subtitles and captions
on the top of your video.
So I actually pay for this website called Rev.com.
It's only $1 per minute,
so if you're making YouTube videos,
you know, 10-minute videos,
I mean, it's only $10 to do captions.
It's kind of a no-brainer.
It's something I never even thought about doing
until I met a friend who's actually deaf, and he's like,
"Oh, I don't know what's happening in your videos."
And I never even thought about
someone who can't hear, watching my videos,
so I think it's really important to do.
YouTube and Facebook do automatic-generated ones,
but we know they aren't the best thing.
A lot of big YouTubers have pointed out
that the automatic one definitely fails a lot,
so it's definitely worth investing
in making good captions for your video, in my opinion,
especially because this site, Rev.com, makes it so easy.
It sounds like I'm getting paid to say all this,
but I'm actually not.
Yeah, I just love the service.
And it's cheap, so you can't really beat it.
And my favorite feature is that
you can log in with your YouTube.
It actually shows you what videos you have
that don't have captions.
So you can see here,
I've paid for captions on most of my videos.
I even went back and did some of my older videos,
paid for captions on them.
And it's as simple as checking a box,
adding it to your cart,
and it calculates the cost based on the time.
So a lot of my videos are a few minutes,
so it's only a few dollars.
If your video is like a minute and five seconds,
you'll still pay for the full two minutes, but it's only $2.
It usually takes like a couple of hours,
I get back the caption file.
It's incredible to me.
Let me show you, actually, one of the finished products.
So this is from my DJI Osmo video, and...
(sighs) Still can't say that right.
But yeah, after it finishes,
it actually will automatically inject it
back into your video on YouTube.
So you really don't have to do anything.
You just pay the money,
and then they'll actually put it into your YouTube video,
which is awesome.
But if you're somebody who likes to upload to Facebook also,
or you wanna manually go through and look at them,
or whatever, you can actually download them.
And they have all different types of formats.
The SRT format, I found, works for everything, basically,
and they have one that's Facebook-ready.
And then, yeah, it's as simple as downloading it.
And then on Facebook, when you're editing the video,
you'll see an option for embedding a caption file.
And what I love about adding captions on Facebook is
when people are scrolling through the news feed,
it'll actually show the captions to them
while they're scrolling,
so you can actually get more attention.
But in terms of YouTube,
I think it's great to add it for accessibility reasons.
Obviously, not everybody can hear,
so it's nice to add actually good subtitles,
and not some garbage automated ones.
This might be in my head,
but I think it will also help with SEO on YouTube,
and showing up higher in search,
because YouTube will know, and Google will know,
exactly what words are in your video.
So yeah, after you get your caption file,
Rev will actually automatically put it into the video.
But say you wanna buy captions,
you can actually upload a video, and then,
if you wanna add it on top of a Final Cut Pro project,
for example,
I found this site called SubSimple.
It's actually a little tool that someone made,
that you can put your SRT file from Rev into this.
It'll actually give you a few options.
The frame rate of your video is important
because they don't know
when the subtitles are gonna be at certain points.
But yeah, this tool will basically
automatically generate titles on top of your video,
so you can make more of like a BuzzFeed-y effect,
you know, have the captions actually on the video itself.
Yeah, let me just show you how it looks in Final Cut
when you import one of these files.
It's actually like a blank project with just your subtitles,
as you can see here,
'cause you can see how this would be annoying
to manually create a spot for each one of these subtitles.
So if you actually select them all, Command + A,
and create a New Compound Clip,
so now it's actually like one big video clip.
You can copy it and bring it into your actual project.
So you can see,
if I just paste it over here and just throw it on top.
Make sure it lines up correctly, obviously.
But then you can see.
So yeah, and that's the reason
that you should actually pay for captions on your videos.
It's so easy and simple, it's kind of a no-brainer to do it.
If you found this tip helpful,
remember to like, and subscribe,
and I'll catch you on the next one.
Did I stop recording?
'Kay, it did not stop recording.
I don't know why it
what happened, but whatever.