Today we're talking about captions. Now captions are super important, there are
three main reasons for this. The first reason is that content needs to be
accessible to people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and captions can make
that possible. Another reason is that many people watch videos without the
sound on. For example, on Facebook, studies have shown that almost 85% of people
watch video without the sound on. Another reason is that captions can help people
learn and remember information better especially for visual learners. Now there
are two types of captions: open captions and closed captions. Open captions are
always present on the video and can't be turned off.
Closed captions, though, can be turned off so YouTube for example has closed
captioning where you can click the CC button to have the captions shown or
have them not shown. Basically without some form of subtitling or captioning
your content that you took so long to make won't be accessible to as many
people as it could be. Making sure you have either open or closed captions on
your video is not actually that hard to do. So in this tutorial I'll be going
over how you can make both open and closed captions using an online tool
called Kapwing. Creating open and closed captions starts with the same steps
start by going to kapwing.com/ subtitles, I'll put the link in
the description below. You can either upload your video content or you can
paste a URL to a Youtube video,Twitter video, Instagram, anything. So I already
have a video that I made our previous YouTube video that I'm just going to
paste the link to and it'll immediately start grabbing that content for me. So
once your video is loaded all you have to do to create audio subtitles is click
this Auto-generate button here and it will auto generate in English and you
can do it for other languages too. Now once the auto subtitler is done loading
you can go in and change anything that it incorrectly subtitled so for
example I know at this part I say hi everybody my name is Grace so I'll
change that. So you can do this
for the rest of the subtitles, you can even change how it appears on the screen
for the open captions. Once you're done with making those edits you can
then just click "create" and it'll create the video with those open captions
burned into the video. My video has loaded and these are what the subtitles
look like so these are open captions where they will always be shown in the
video so if I took this video and uploaded it to like YouTube or Instagram
the captions will be there permanently you can't turn them on or off. To take
this content and republish it on other platforms you can just click download
and then upload it to whatever platform you want. For closed captions, so YouTube
has closed captioning that it automatically subtitles for you but
sometimes those captions aren't accurate so if you want to upload your own
captions to your YouTube video which I'm going to do I can just click the
download SRT file and it will make an SRT file for me which I can upload to
YouTube. So this download SRT to make closed captions accurate is only with
the Kapwing Pro accounts so if you're a subscriber you can do this and if you
want to be able to do this you can upgrade to Kapwing Pro. In terms of
uploading your SRT subtitle file for closed captions on YouTube for example
you can go to edit your video and click here "upload subtitles/CC" so if you
click that Kapwing makes it with timing so you just do that and then
grab the file and open it and there it is the subtitles will be in the video
now. So if we go and check out this video and see what the subtitles look like now
if we click subtitles closed captioning here YouTube will have the correct
subtitles that we just uploaded with our SRT file. So I hope this video was useful
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