- Adding subtitles can seem
like a boring and lengthy process.
I mean, who is time to go clip by clip
and manually type out sentence after sentence?
However, what if I told you I can save you hours
of incessant typing
and that you can auto generate subtitles in
under two minutes.
Hi, I'm Lauren.
And I'm gonna show you not one,
but two of the quickest and easiest ways
to auto caption your videos.
So let's get started.
We're gonna open Premiere Pro,
and if you don't have Premiere,
feel free to skip forward in the video
to the chapter where I offer you a free alternative
called VEED.
Now in Premiere, I'm gonna create new project,
give it a name, choose where to save it, and click okay.
Now we need to import the footage.
So to do that hit file import,
or you can hold command and I together
if you are using a Mac.
Now select the video file
and you'll see it's imported in the bottom left hand corner.
Drag your video into the timeline.
And now it's time to add captions.
In the bar at the top
you'll see captions and graphics, click that,
and then click transcribe sequence, choose your language,
and below that you'll see a few different options.
An important one to select
if there's more than just you talking in camera,
is opt in to recognize when different speakers are talking,
but because I'm riding solo on this clip,
there's no need for me to check that.
Now click transcribe and give it a couple of minutes
to work its magic.
- [Narrator] One minute 37 seconds later.
- And we can see all the text is transcribed.
It's time to go through it and correct any errors.
What if I told you that you could visit an entire country
on foot in under an hour?
Yes, you heard right, in under an hour.
I'm talking about Vatican City.
Home of the pope and capital of Catholicism.
Okay, so I'm gonna keep it 100 with you.
So you can see where I've said 100, it's interpreted as 108.
So to correct this, simply click on the text,
delete the eight and add a zero.
Simple.
Once you're finished correcting the remaining errors,
it's time to add captions onto the video itself.
Click create captions and subtitle default is perfect.
No need to change that.
Here you can adjust the captions
by shortening the characters per sentence,
but for me, 42 is fine.
And you can also decide
whether you want one or two sentences on screen.
Just do this by changing it to single or double.
Now, once you're happy with your choices,
click create and give it a minute to generate the text.
Next thing to do is make it your style.
So highlight all of the caption text and choose your font.
And here you can play with colors, shadows,
and even add a background if you like.
Now to export the video.
Click file, export, and media.
Here you'll see captions
and you've got one of two options.
So you can save the subtitles as create sidecar file,
which will give you an SRT file.
Or you can choose to burn captions into the video
and they will stay on your video permanently.
And because we want them burnt on,
we're gonna choose that option and hit export.
And here you can see we've got all of our subtitles
now on our video.
What if I told you that you could visit an entire country
on foot in under an hour?
Yes, you heard right in under an hour.
Now, if you don't wanna pay 20 pound a month for Premiere
or if you find that Premiere is a little complicated,
let's face it,
it's a very intricate workspace.
I do have another solution for you
that is free to use and much simpler.
We're gonna use VEED.io, the online editing platform.
So now we're in VEED.
We are going to click create new project, upload media,
select your video clip,
and give it a second to upload.
Next in the sidebar, you'll see subtitles.
Click that and click auto subtile.
Choose your language and hit start.
It'll take a minute or two to transcribe the audio.
And now we've got our audio as text.
It's time to check for any errors and correct them.
Once that's done, click the styles tab,
and here you can fun playing around with different colors,
fonts, and text styles.
Just make it your own really.
And once you're happy with your choices,
it's time to render.
So click export in the top right hand corner of the video.
Choose your render settings.
I'm gonna go for HD.
Click exports and it'll take a minute here to render.
Now you have one final chance
to watch your video entirely through
and make sure everything is as you want it.
What if I told you that you could visit an entire country
on foot in under an hour?
Yes, you heard right.
In under an hour.
I'm talking about in Vatican City.
Lastly click download.
Download MP4 and that's it.
So there you have it.
There is two methods of how to quickly
and easily add subtitles to any video.
I really hope you found this video helpful.
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Thanks for watching.
And I hope to see you in the next one.
Bye.