Today I am going to talk to you about closed captioning
and subtitles on YouTube it's actually pretty easy to do
because YouTube has given you options
now to make it a lot easier which I'll show you in a
few moments as you can see here on the screen
it asks you to select the original language of the video and then it'll
show you more options so my videos
are done in English so I would go
here and select video language and then select
English now what this does for the video if you decide to closed caption
the video is for people who are hearing impaired
they will be able to watch your video and then read the captions
and know what you're saying since they can't actually hear
and I've heard from people that when you do
add closed captioning or subtitles
it does rank your video higher in the search results
I am not sure if that's true but uh we'll
get on with the video now and so I just click
English and then
it already it has automatic uh captions
that Google generated and what I used to do
is that I would take this sbv
file here and then download it then save it
and we'll get back to that a little bit later
but now you can actually edit the video as
it's playing as you hear yourself speak and change any mistakes that the automatically
generated
captions have made so
what you do is you click edit and as you can see the cursor is already in the first
caption from zero point four seconds to
three point four seconds and you can change
or edit any of the words that are incorrect
and then you can also edit the time
as well to sync up the words
better with the actual time stamp and as you can see down here
it says pause video while typing so as you're typing the
video will pause and that helps sync up the words better with the video
and also I think if you hit
the space bar that used to stop it but they might've changed that
because they have now changed it where you actually
have to select the language and that wasn't there a couple of weeks ago
and once you've finished going through the whole video and editing
all of the captions so that they're or subtitles
so that they're correct the words are all correct and the time stamps
you just hit publish and then it would be added to your video
and then they can be translated into other languages
other than English automatically
by Google now the old method I used to use was like I
did earlier I downloaded that sbv file
then I would open it with WordPad if you're on a Microsoft operating system
and basically go through all of these captions as you
can see on the screen right now and correct all of the words
and also the time stamps it's actually a little bit easier to do it here
if you want to be more precise when you're syncing
the words with the time stamp and
the only thing you want to worry about is that there is only a single space
between captions or subtitles
and that you don't add any extra spaces
and also that you do not have duplicate
time stamps because sometimes they overlap
and then the captions don't work out correctly
or the way they should and once you've done editing it in WordPad
you just go up to file and click save
don't click save as just click save
and then it will save all of the corrections
and then you would just basically upload it back to YouTube
and then it would be on your video so that people
that are hearing impaired can watch your video
too so that was just a quick video about YouTube's subtitles and closed captioning
it's actually fairly simple they've recently made some changes to the interface
that you can use on YouTube and I don't really like the changes
it's a little bit weird compared to how it used to be
but it still works and I normally try
to closed caption my video as soon as possible sometimes there is
a day or a few days before I actually do it
obviously the automatic captions aren't very reliable
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