- If you're making videos for the web and you're not getting
transcripts or closed captions made for you,
you're either doing them yourself,
which is a huge waste of time because
they take a really long time to make,
or you're not getting the added search traffic
or just the added benefit of letting people that are
deaf watch your videos and get information from them,
or someone that doesn't have sound can still tell
what you're saying if they're watching it in an environment
where they don't have headphones or something like that.
So in this video, I'm gonna show you the service I use to
actually do all my closed captioning
and to get my transcripts from
for as little as a dollar a minute.
This video isn't sponsored anything.
This is just a service that I really like using because
I have more things I can do with my time than be
typing out exactly what I say in a video like this one.
So there are ways to go into YouTube and watch your videos,
play them back, type in what you say,
and the video will pause for a second.
Then when you listen more then you can type some more
and that takes a really long time to do.
You know, some people do that for
different languages to enable to translate your
video into another language which is pretty cool.
You can source different languages for your videos,
but I like to at least make sure there is a
really good quality version of my video
closed captions in English, and I use Rev.com to do so.
So let's jump over to Rev.com, R-E-V dot com,
and you can see I'm already logged in here but you can get
transcriptions for a dollar a minute, captions,
and they'll even translate 10 cents per word
if you have an audience in a different language that
you want to reach, so that's another good option.
But once I'm logged in, I just go ahead and go to
captions, get started here.
I'm already logged in and it says, where are your videos?
You can either upload videos directly to Rev.com.
I would do this if I wanted to get captions or transcript of
a video that I haven't yet published somewhere,
or you can share a link to a public address that the video
lives on or you can do this with audio as well.
Audio as well, so either a podcast or something.
Or you can use their integration with
YouTube which is really great.
That's what I do.
So I just go ahead and click from Youtube,
I log in using my username and make sure that
I allow Rev to have access to my videos.
And then what it does is it'll pull up all of your videos.
Then you can see here,
these are my most recent videos I've put up,
and I have a little CC icon on these which means
I've already paid for closed captioning on these videos.
So what I can do, if I'm not looking for just a
specific video on the YouTube channel that
I want to put transcripts or closed captions on,
I can click only show videos without a caption file.
And this enables me to go through my YouTube videos that
I've not yet paid to have captions on them.
Now, you pay a dollar per minute,
so some of your longer videos like I did a livestream
introduction of Final Cut Pro 10 that's on my channel,
and that was about an hour or at least an hour,
so that'd be $60 or more to get the transcripts for that,
so it gets pricier if you have longer videos,
but I try to make sure that all of my videos that I want to
rank well and then aren't software kind of
tutorial videos like you'll see here,
there are Final Cut Pro 10 and Premier Pro,
those ones I'm not as concerned about having captions on.
But, you know, even some of my
older videos I could put captions on.
So let's just go ahead and say,
let's find one of my videos that's in the past,
that's more popular that I haven't really put captions on.
So the 10 ways to look better on a web cam,
and we'll go to add selected to cart.
Now once it's in your cart,
you can see how much it's going to cost you.
It'll calculate how many minutes long it is,
and I've even gotten refunds for partial minutes on videos.
So if it's four minutes and one second,
sometimes they'll give you a partial refund which is nice.
And the important thing to click here is this
automatically deliver captions back to YouTube check box.
That means that because I logged in through YouTube,
it will actually make the closed captions,
they'll source other people watching the videos
and typing out the words that are gonna be in my captions,
and they'll then make that the default English option
when someone clicks those captions on YouTube.
So that is really really important.
You can also choose to get other output formats.
So if you know you want to take the text from the
transcript of the video that you have made
and you want to put that in a blog post
or in the description of the YouTube video to maybe
help it rank better in search, you can check that.
There are other formats if you're going to then bring in
this closed captioning and hardcode it into a video.
So let's say you upload a video
and you want to get the caption so you can hardcode it
into a video because you're gonna put it on Facebook
and you want the Facebook caption to be on top of the video
and someone not to have to click and have the sound start to
play so they can get the gist of your video,
so that's another use of this.
But there are a bunch of different formats of these files
that you can get outputted as well
when you have your transcripts made.
So you can go ahead and checkout,
and I'm gonna log in and pay and that sort of thing.
But let me jump over to YouTube and show you
what this then does to your videos.
So let me go to one of my recent videos here,
and I'm going to show you that down here in the lower right
there is a subtitles and closed captions button.
And I can go ahead and turn that on or turn it off,
but if I click the subtitles and closed caption button
when I'm logged into my account,
I'll go ahead and click that,
you can see it has English default and English automatic.
So the automatic is
YouTube or Google are listening to what you're saying
and computers are trying to figure out what you're saying.
And you can get some really strange words in your
closed captions if you just trust your computer to do it,
so that's why I have a human go through and listen through.
So if I play this back you can see
if I had English default published,
it has the timestamps on all the
different things that I say and it'll go through those
as the video progresses when someone's watching.
And you can edit them as well if someone that made these
didn't do it right, so if you're maybe watching it back
and checking for errors, you can do that as well.
But you'll see this draft of the English automatic is
what is made by the computer and added to your videos.
That's not necessarily what you want.
You want to have a human listen to your videos
and type through and do all the timing properly.
So that's what I use, Rev.com.
This isn't sponsored or anything,
it's just a service that I pay for pretty much
all of my videos to get transcripts
as well as closed captionings,
and then you can then use them wherever you want.
And one last thing here,
there's a little button here to
turn on community contributions.
I should probably have that on by default, I do not,
but turning that on enables people to
do their own closed captions for you
or to add them in a different language.
So if you're doing closed captions on your video
or you aren't getting transcripts from yours
and repurposing that text in some other way,
I highly recommend you do.
Rev.com, check it out, dollar a minute.
There's not a better use of your money for the videos that
you're making than to have them rank better in search,
and for people to be able to find them
so I highly recommend that.
So thanks so much for watching this video
and Caleb Wojcik of DIY Video Guy.
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So thanks so much for watching this one.
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