Did you know that 85% of Facebook users watch videos with the sound turned OFF
on their device, that's why captions are so important to
add on your videos. So I'm going to show you my favourite app for creating
automatic caption. Hey there welcome to the video I'm Mark Brown from EditorsKeys
now, if you're into video production or if you just want to make better
videos consider subscribing to the channel because that's what we're all
about! Now as I said in the intro the numbers
don't lie...85% of Facebook users watch videos with the sound turned off and the same can be
said for Instagram too, so it's really
really important to add these captions to your videos and not only will it help
smash your engagement rate but you'll actually help people with hearing issues
as well. So it's a really important thing to add to your videos now if you've
tried adding titles to your videos as captions before in programs like Final
Cut, iMovie or Adobe Premiere you know it can be really time-consuming. It's really
hard to get the timing just right so I'm going to show you a little app called 'Mix Captions'
which actually takes your videos you import, it and then it will
automatically create the captions for you with ease! So let's jump into it and
I'll show you exactly how it works okay so this is the app it's called Mix
Captions and you can get it on the App Store. I've already downloaded it it is a
free app to download but you do pay for your minutes but there are some free
minutes included with the app so it's definitely worth checking out so first
of all all you need to do is press new project here now we've got two videos
here that we've created today this one is an Instagram story size and this one
is a 16:9 so I'm going to show you how to do it on the Instagram stories
because as mentioned an Instagram story or Facebook video is usually watched
with the sound turned off so if you were to play this through without any sound
on your the course would not hear what I was saying and people may miss the
message that you're trying to put out so essentially you want to start by
selecting your start and your endpoint so if you have a ten minute video and
there maybe just a one minute section you want subtitles for maybe that's only
a bit of speaking you've got in the video you would select that here we're
going to do the entire thing as we've cut this down to 20 seconds
we're gonna hit use and then it allows you again to just have this section here
this is kind of like the in and out points and then we're going to hit
captions now what you need to do is select your native language and this
will help the auto detection process of your captions you then want to click
generate captions this will show you how many credits you're using and you can
buy credits with it in the app this is 21 seconds of captions so on all I'm
going to do now is click the generate captions option now what you can see at
the bottom here it's saying preparing audio now what it's doing is reading
that audio it's sending it back to their servers and this transcription process
usually takes around 30 seconds to 1 minute depending on the length of the
video you're using so we'll let it do its thing and come back to it once it's
done okay so it has already done that quickly so as you can see here it's
added the captions automatically now if I play that through we can hear what it
sounds like
so there we go you can see that was actually perfectly accurate there wasn't
really anything in there I'd change maybe I had a comma or a full-stop in
there essentially that was perfect but let's just say it did make a mistake
you'll find that sometimes it will it will get the odd word wrong all you need
to do you can actually edit these so let's just say we want to change the
first line you would tick into the first line and then you can come in here and
you can edit that text so you can capitalize stuff you can remove words
you can change words if they're wrong but I just love how easy that was now
super fast imagine how long this would take if you were manually doing this in
premiere final cut or iMovie so once that's done you take the okay you can
then change the style here in the bottom corner as well so you can see we've got
this kind of standard style and that's the style that I would usually go for we
do have the option here of different kind of fonts so you can choose fonts
that maybe go particularly well with your brand you can also do the size as
well so if you feel like it's kind of something that people aren't really
gonna need but you'd like them there you can make them smaller if you really want
people to see your message go for a nice big bold font you've also got the
options down here to change the fill color so we can make it a blue color if
we want to I'm gonna keep ours on white you can also add a stroke or you can
change the background color so yeah it's keys colors are kind of like an orange
in our branding so we could make the background an orange color and it may
fit in with our brand a little nicer I tend to keep it on the default because I
think it's what people are are used to and I saw a black on white font it makes
it easy to read and it's not too intrusive so once you're done and you're
happy with that click done click done again and then you can add a watermark
here if you have got the free version you'll see there's a mixed captions
watermark up here we actually pay the 399 to remove that because we're gonna
use this for all of our business videos and branded videos all you then need to
do once you're happy just click share and then you can share
directly to Instagram Facebook Twitter what I tend to do is add it to my camera
roll and then I can add it to Instagram and add my tags and keywords as we go
along now let's say you prefer editing on your iPad there's also an iPad
version of the app too it works exactly the same as the iPhone version but of
course you get a big and if you're using an app like the luma
fusion or iMovie this fits in perfectly into any workflow so there we go you can
now add captions to your videos with ease
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for watching and I'll see you in the next video so there we go that's how you
can add some brand new fonts into your favorite programs on your iPad
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