Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another tech-torial for you, this time
on how to improve your YouTube channel by using closed captioning for the
hearing impaired, so stick around.
In trying to improve my own channel one of
the things that I learned recently through the YouTube creators Academy
is the importance of having closed captioning. So basically if you're not
sure what that is, it's when you're watching a video and you hit the CC
button at the bottom of the video it will turn on the closed captioning and
if that video had closed captioning created for it then it will show the
text as you're talking at the bottom of the screen. So you should see that even
on this video that you're watching if you turn on closed captioning, you'll see
the words as I am saying them. So also what's mentioned in the creators Academy
is that they tell you how it's not just for the hearing impaired and deaf people
but also people that are learning English as a Second Language and there's
a couple other things now I can't think at the top of my head but it would help
with them being able to understand your video what you're saying. OH! One of them
is also if you're listening to a video or watching a video in a place where you
can't have the volume turned on, then you can still watch the video and see the
text written on the screen through the closed captioning versus having the
volume turned on. So that's one of the things that you'll find is going to help
improve your viewership by having this feature turned on because some people
may do a search if you look at when we do a search for something on YouTube.
I'm gonna just go in here on my screen and
let's see here... we're going to look for computer repair
and I'm gonna hit search, and so we got a bunch of options here, but there's a
filter button here. So if you go to filter you might go down and say I only
want to see videos that have subtitles and closed captioning. So that's gonna
narrow it down you'll see it says subtitles beside here so we know that
these videos are ones that have closed captioning setup for them. So it's really
filtering out those other ones so we're not gonna see those videos that
don't have the closed captioning turned on. Now to show you how do you actually
do this. One of the things that prompted me to make this video is because in the
YouTube creators Academy they may not have updated that video because the
instructions that they provide are for an older version of the creator studio
so we need to do it slightly differently so I'm going to show you here.
So when you're logged in click on your logo for your account and go to YouTube studio
Then over on the left side there's videos. From here you would find a video
that you want to edit. Now I know most of mine are already done because it's been
turned on by default so I'm going to find one here that is not done yet and I
know this one isn't here. So in this view of the new YouTube studio...
creator studio... [Second guessing]
I gotta check the name.. .In the YouTube studio here we want to go to
these details button here. and from here click on more options, and then you'll
see here now it's kind of jumped me down a bit already but we got a few bits of
information here and then if you scroll down a bit original video language
subtitles and CC. Now one of the things that tells you here
is the subtitle CC select a video language then upload the subtitles and CC.
So we can't do anything with this until we select a language, so it knows
how to convert it. So we'll click in here for the video language and select our language.
Now that I've got the language it automatically selected to use English
by YouTube for CC automatically. So now what it's doing, I guess once I hit save,
I would have to go up here and click Save. So what it's doing now is it's
automatically looking at the video figuring out the text or audio to text
and it's translating it the to its best of its ability and it's going to add CC
to this video. Now what you're gonna want to do is review this which I'm going
through all of my videos now and reviewing them because previously I
didn't have this on by default it didn't have a language so it wasn't doing
closed captioning it at all, but for the last I don't know how many videos it's
I've had it turned on so it would create closed captioning, which I didn't know
that was part of what it does when you select the language, but it is just it's
wrong on a lot of it so I'm having to go through and edit it ,which is not too bad
at least it's got a lot of the information in there. So what you want to
do is when you're in this view, and I don't know if it's going to be
available right away, but you click the three dots and hit edit on classic Studio.
So it takes you into the classic studio and I don't know by the time
you're watching this if it's gonna still be this way or not but we can see here
my video here, and it's got, it looks like it's done doing this here...
if we scroll across it shows all the way to the end and there's that thanks again
for watching don't forget to subscribe; alright, and it's actually showing the
text how it's going to appear on the video here as well while I go through
this and there's going to be mistakes, because it's a robot it's not going to
be perfect and depending on how well you speak if your English is very clear and
crisp the way you speak then it's going to edit it properly;
but if you slur your words or you've got background music or something like I've
had in a couple of my videos that I don't know how it came up with some of
the words that figure it out is completely wrong it's just hilarious
some of it . Anyway you need to check this out because if
the closed captions turned on and is doing it for you and someone turns on
closed captioning to watch your video and the words don't make sense,
that's gonna be a little bit embarrassing. So yeah for me it's a little bit
embarrassing already that I've had it turned on with some of them I've seen
for as long as they have been there and I never knew to even go and look at them.
So what you would do is you can view it here if you're scrolling along, you can
see the text as you go and you can change the duration for them.
If you're...let's see here... you have to go to edit first of all and
once it's in edit mode, when you hover down here you can see it highlights so
that you can actually grab this and move the bar to say how long is that text
going to stay on the screen for so you can really line it up with your word so
this can be very time-consuming and having to play through it and see
if it lines up properly, but it may be a good investment of time to make sure you
have quality video with the CC lined up properly; but probably more important
than that is making sure that the text got translated properly. So you want to
look at this and make sure that the words make sense and even playback your
video and just listen to what you're saying and follow along and pause the
video as you need to and make the changes. So that we can make sure no
words are missing or added that shouldn't be there.
The other thing here
is if you want to combine or separate the some of the boxes if you click on
any one of these here and add something to the top I'll just put in test and hit
the plus sign it adds it in a separate container just above that and it makes
room for it there and if you want to take something out you can just hit the
X beside that and it removes it and of course making some separate or adding
you know combining two if they're short you can just grab part of the text here
cut that out of there paste it in here and add that so now
it's got that one as its own separate caption that comes up before the next
one so we've now separated them if you want
to undo that of course just grab that cut it paste it back over here and now
we can delete that empty one so it's pretty easy to work with here just
adding the content reviewing it resizing them to change the duration of how long
the text shows up and where it shows up and don't forget to publish your edits
after you're done so then it all goes gray so it's not editable after in the
subtitle subtitles have been published so it is done now
so you can close out of that tab and you're back to your main dashboard for
the new creator studio that's basically it for the closed captioning which will
hopefully help you with your rankings quite a bit there is something else here
with subtitles that if you wanted to click into there you can look at other
languages so you can actually go in here add other languages and you can ask your
community to help you with translations for this video so right now for this one
community contributions is turned off if I click in there I can turn that on and
the community will then actually be able to make suggestions for the video to say
translating it to another language so I could go in here to add a language and
let's say I want to add French Canadian French so we'll have that option of
French going in there and we'll have the community that can make suggestions and
try and convert this for us so that is it for this tutorial and I hope you guys
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much for watching and we'll see you in the next video bye for now