- If you're wondering how to add captions to videos
and create videos like these with subtitles hard coded in
for Instagram, Facebook, or any other platform,
then stick around cause I'll be stepping you
through exactly how to do it.
And our top recommended apps for Mac,
PC, iPhone and Android.
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Let's jump into it.
Now, while it might look simple,
it's not as easy as just adding text to videos.
In fact, I've seen people spend hours,
manually adding subtitles word by word to their video.
Now, if you're like me you're way too impatient for that.
So, the good news is there's much easier options
that we're gonna to run through now.
Now, we uploaded a tutorial like this a little while back
and the options now are much better.
So, this is a complete update with the latest tools
to make the job much easier.
So I'll start off with the options
that take the most amount of work
but are also the cheapest and most accessible.
And then we'll progress through
to some of the done for you options,
for those of you that wanna do it completely hands off.
All right, so, method number one,
is manually creating the titles but with some assistance.
I've already told you that creating them manually
is gonna be painfully slow,
where you're playing back the video,
you're listening to what's been said
and you're just typing everything out word by word
or sentence by sentence.
But instead of going completely manual,
you can actually use the Google or the Apple Voice,
text to speech feature on your phone
to transcribe what you're saying
so that you don't need to type it all out.
So, on your phone you just press
the little microphone button on your keyboard
and you say the words that you want typed out
the words that have been said in your video,
and it will type them out for you.
So, this is gonna to be good for short videos
where there's not a lot of texts
that you need to get in there,
but it's gonna speed things up dramatically for you.
Now for longer videos and for higher accuracy,
you could also use a service like Rev.
Now, with Rev your video can actually be transcribed
by humans giving you 99% accuracy on your transcription.
Once you send them your footage, it's around a 24 hour
turnaround time for them to give you a document back
with all of your video texts in there.
Now, from there you can either copy and paste your text
into your editing software or editing app.
They also have an AI option,
which is cheaper and much faster.
So, if you don't need that 99% level of accuracy
then the AI option could be the one for you.
Now, we'll have more on Rev really soon
for those of you that are using more professional
video editing software.
But in terms of pricing, Rev will transcribe your video
starting at 25 cents per minute for their AI service,
which is pretty good.
But for their 99% accuracy, human done transcriptions,
those are gonna cost you $1.25 per minute.
So, while this is still a manual process,
this methods are designed to help you speed up
that manual process to get everything in there much faster.
So now, with the manual options out of the way,
let's look at the next method,
which is using auto caption apps.
Now, there's some incredible apps out there
that will auto generate captions
for your videos quick and easy.
Some will caption your videos in real time
while you're filming and others will auto generate captions
for already made videos that you've got on your device.
Now, there's a lot of video captioning apps out there,
and we've tried and tested a ton of them.
Apps like Autocap, Threads, Kaptioned,
Clipmatic, Captions, CapCut, Clips.
We've looked at this speed, the accuracy,
how easy they were to use and how customizable they were.
So, here's our top picks right now,
which are easy to use, export videos without a watermark
and they all happen to be free.
Okay, future just Justin jumping back in here
because our first recommendation has changed.
Instagram have recently updated their app
and it is now our first recommendation for you.
Is to use the actual Instagram app.
It's now got an amazing auto captions feature
and it works really well.
So, this one will work for you,
whether you're on iOS or Android,
and it's gonna caption your videos in real time
while you're recording it.
So, let's go across, "Hey, I'm on camera."
So, we just wanna record our video.
Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.
Come over here to the stickers, down to captions,
it's gonna transcribe our audio.
Now from here, we can pick that up,
we can move it around, we can also select on it
and we can change how it looks.
And then to save it your device,
you can come to the little download button at the top,
and that's going to download and save your video.
Now, you do have the ability in here to upload
and select videos that are already on your device as well,
as long as they're under that story limit of one minute.
So, while you could import videos longer than a minute,
it's only gonna let you save them out at up to a minute.
And because it's in the stories feature,
it's gonna be split into 15 second chunks.
And it is also limited to just portrait videos right now.
But overall, it's a really quick and easy way
to add auto captions to your videos
and it's pretty accurate.
- Now a step up from these is, CapCut.
CapCut is a really powerful video editing app
for both iOS and Android.
That also happens to have a great automated
captions feature.
Now, as it's a video editing app primarily,
you've got the ability to edit, to crop,
to resize, to add graphics, transitions, overlays,
music, effects, and so much more to your videos.
Making it a full end to end solution for video creation.
And then when you're ready to add your captions in,
all you need to do is select the text option,
then create auto captions and the captions are generated
and added directly to your video.
Now, in this one you also have a large range of options
to customize up the captions themselves.
Things like the overall textile,
the backgrounds, adding animations to the text,
and you can even edit the caption styling individually,
or you can batch edit them altogether
to speed up the process.
Overall, this is a solid option for generating auto captions
with a great level of customization.
Plus the fact that it's also a powerful editing app,
which is awesome and it's free.
So, those are our app recommendations.
Now, we're gonna to have a look at the desktop platforms
and applications, which will auto generate
your captions for you.
Once again, there's quite a few options out there to do this
with things like Kapwing, VEED.IO, Zubtitle,
Quicc, Descript, Type Studio, Audiate, Subly.
And after trying and testing all the top options,
here's our shortlist of the best ones right now.
The first one is Kapwing.
It's really easy to use,
it's got a ton of features built in,
and it has an amazing auto captions feature.
There's nothing to install,
this one just runs in your web browser.
It's got a really intuitive and simple looking interface.
It's fast, it's customizable,
and you can easily reformat your video
for different platforms.
Captions wise they're generated by AI
and they're pretty accurate.
And they're easy to customize up,
to match the look and feel that you're after.
So Kapwing was a standout for us
because it gives you more choice
over a lot of the other apps and other options
that are out there.
When it comes to things like resizing your videos
and choosing where you want your captions to be
all while keeping the whole process simple.
Now, in terms of pricing, there's three options.
There is a free plan,
it does have a 250 megabyte file size upload limit,
which will let you create videos up to seven minutes long
without a watermark and publish up to three hours
of videos per month.
The downside with this plan is that you can only edit
and store your content up to two days.
Up from that as the pro plan for $17 per month,
which will let you export videos up to an hour long.
And you can also download your SRT files,
your subtitled text files in there as well.
And for those of you that are working with teams,
there is a team's plan as well, for $17 per user per month.
So, overall it's quick and it's easy to use
but it doesn't have a lot of the advanced features
that some of the next options have.
So, the next one then is Descript.
This is a collaborative audio and multi-track video editor
that runs on both Mac and PC,
so, it's not something that runs in your web browser.
Now, unlike Kapwing,
this one also works like a document editor too.
Meaning that you can literally edit by deleting
or moving chunks of text around.
Making it really easy to look out for any inaccuracies
and make any amendments.
To the overall interface and the experience in Descript,
it's clean, it's easy to use
and I just love that you can see your entire video script
laid out as a document next to your video.
And editing your videos down this way is super powerful.
No matter if you're creating a really short video
or something that is upwards of an hour.
Now, in terms of pricing, there is a free version
so, you can test it out
and see if Descript is right for you
but the free version does have a watermark on it.
To remove the watermark and to unlock more features
that's where you wanna jump on their creator plan
for $12 per month, or to unlock all the features
you wanna be on their pro plan for $24 per month.
Now, while Descript is an amazing option
for adding subtitles to your videos, it's also so much more,
and I'm really pumped to see where they're taking this
because in terms of video editing,
I think these guys are changing the game.
Now, for those of you that are using more professional
video editing software like Adobe Premiere,
Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve and others as well,
there are ways that you can bring your subtitles directly
into those platforms without needing
to manually type them out.
Now, earlier in the video, we mentioned Rev,
which is an amazing service to transcribe your videos,
whether through AI or through their human transcription
service, giving you that 99% accuracy.
Well, along with a text document that they can give you,
they also give you access to an SRT file,
a subtitles file that you can directly import
into a lot of professional video editing software,
bringing in your captions directly into your timeline,
but also time to perfectly with where the words
are actually being said.
So, the pricing again for Rev was 25 cents per minute
of your video for the AI transcriptions
or $1.25 for the human accurate transcriptions.
Now outside of using Rev,
some of these applications are already moving towards having
this as an integrated feature inside of those applications.
Like for example, Premiere Pro,
has theirs out in beta right now.
Or no matter which application you're using,
there's other services like Simon Says,
which can be used to bring that functionality direct
to your timeline right now.
So, Simon Says will currently work with things
like Avid, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere and Final Cut.
And we'll make this process seamless in your timeline.
So, the biggest advantage of creating your subtitles
this way is this gonna give you access
to the most amount of features, the most amount of control,
because you're using the pro level tools
that are in your editing software.
Now, those of you who wanna be completely hands off,
then this method is all about outsourcing.
And this is where you can send you the video off
to a third party provider or company
to do the captions for you.
So, in this section, you've really got three main options.
The first one is that you could find someone online
to do this work for you.
Finding someone on places like Fivver or Upwork.
The second one is that you could use Rev for this as well.
Yes, Rev's getting a few mentions in this video,
but Rev actually has a really quick way
to get subtitles added directly into your videos
for an extra 25 cents per minute.
They will burn the captions or bake the captions directly
into your video letting you download a video from them
that has everything ready to go.
And the third way is that you could be completely hands off
and use a dedicated service like Splasheo.
So, Splasheo is a service that will accurately caption
your videos while branding it in your preferred style.
Now, they say it's got a quick turnaround of 24 hours
and in all of my testing, it's actually been much faster.
Once you've gone through and you've set up your template,
it really is as simple as just uploading your videos.
You can add some quick details or some text about the video
and they complete the rest of the process for you.
But the biggest advantage here with Splasheo
is that the entire process is managed by humans,
means you've actually got someone on the other end
that is producing your video for you.
Now, we even I sent them a bit of a curve ball
where we uploaded a portrait video
and told them that we wanted to have a landscape video back
obviously, with subtitles included.
And we were pretty surprised
with what they actually sent back.
It looked really good, and it's something
that we could have uploaded immediately.
And in regards to pricing Splasheo
is currently running with a credit system.
So, we're able to purchase four credits per month for $99
and essentially each credit is five minutes of video.
So, this will be fine if you wanna upload a video a week,
that's under the five minute mark.
And if you're really going to be churning out some content,
they have a social plan, which gives you 10 credits
per month for $199 per month
and there's also a business plan with 20 credits per month
for $399 per month.
So, Splasheo is a great option for anyone
who wants to be totally hands-off in the process
but also wants to have the accuracy
and the peace of mind that it's actually been done by
and reviewed by a human on the other end.
So, those are our top options right now
for adding captions to your videos.
Now, as for which one is gonna be the best option for you,
it's really gonna come down to the type of content
that you're gonna be creating
and which one of these methods best suits the outcome
that you're looking for.
So, I really don't think there is a one size fits all
or one solution fits all,
just pick the ones that are gonna be the best
for the videos that you're creating right now.
So for us, we actually use a combination
of these different methods depending on the video
we're creating and where it's going to be released.
For the most part we use Rev,
to transcribe our videos we'll grab that SRT file,
We'll put it into our editing software
and create our subtitles that way.
Or for some videos, we just upload them to Splasheo
and let them create them for us.
So, now that you know how to add your captions
on your videos, check out the video linked on-screen.
It's a suggestion from YouTube.
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I'll see you in the next one.