Hi it's Colin McIntyre and I just want to shoot this very quick video that shows you
how to add closed captions to your YouTube videos - quickly and for free. Closed captions
are really important today. They allow you to spread your message, you know, to a wider
audience. So people who might be hard of hearing or people who might struggle with a
West Country English accent. So they are important. It can take a little bit of time and
be a little bit fiddly to create your transcriptions from scratch. So let me get on my laptop
and show you the system I use. It's a bit of a halfway house. You have to do a little
bit of the work but it doesn't cost you anything
and I'm always pleased with the result.
Hi, I have jumped on the laptop and I'm now going to talk to you about how to add captions to youtube
videos, and I'm going to show you how to do it for free and quickly. Okay so I've just
loaded this video and YouTube actually always puts
some captions on for you. It does it automatically, but normally what you'll find
is it has mistakes. So if I just start this one -
I've got it muted - don't need to hear me talking! So straight away YouTube has made
an error. It hasn't even got the product name right
- product was Sean Bagheri's YouTube Traffic Masters and it's got that wrong. Now if you
review this, you'll find there's lots of errors in it. So that's not what I want - I want my audience
to hear what I was talking about or be able to
see what I was talking about and so I want to edit. So I'm going to edit the video. Okay
so when I get into my video, this is the editing
menu you have, and what I'm looking for is transcriptions. So captions or closed captions
- part of what YouTube has under the transcriptions menu. Okay, what it says is
it's published the automatic one. Which is what we
saw and we know has errors and it says if I want I can add my own transcription. So
options are upload a file, and if you look at the
help - that says upload a text transcription. So if
I had created a script and I followed it then I could have uploaded the script. But that's
not the way I create my videos. The second one is to do the same, put a full transcription
in there and it will do the timing for you. So the first one you're putting up a
transcription also with timing. The second one is going to do the timing for you and
the third one, which most people do, and is hugely time
consuming. If you start - you start typing in text
as you watch the video. So you have a complete blank canvas and you start watching your
video and typing.I don't know how quickly you can type but it would take me a long time. So
that's not my preferred method, That's certainly free
but it's not my prefered method! So let me show
you what I do. So when I'm back to this edit, but I could do it from YouTube as well, just
getting the share URL for your video. I then use a free service called DIYcaptions.com.
Okay what you do there is you take that URL, so
of your video and you press go. Okay so it's pulled
in the video. I wantto add captions to. I press the English auto-generate and it will give
me a file. Now it won't be - it's, it's the file
that YouTube had produced. So you can see here this
should be saying Sean Bagheri's. So I can correct it. So I now have this entire txt
file, Now there are errors in it - but at least I have
most of the typing done for me. So what I do is I
grab hold of that and create a notepad file, but you could use any text editor, but you
want one which isn't going to put lots of fancy punctuation
and the like in which will confuse everything when you try and load it into YouTube.
So I'm going stop the video now and I'm going to go
and edit this. Right so I've now edited the notepad file so that it actually says what
I think it should say. So I can go back to the transcriptions
menu and I'm going to upload a file. A transcript file. Okay Sean Bagheri. (get myself
out of the way) and now I put the text in. I ask it to go away
and set the timings. Now this can take a few minutes to complete so I will freeze the video
and come back when it's done - When it's done. So when it's setting the timings - for me
to try and check whether it's completed, because
for me it's often hangs, is I just send it through,
just return the URL. And it typically will come back and tell me it's still working on
it or it will tell me it's completed. Okay so
if you keep refreshing the page as I've shown you
eventually you'll get this, and it's just waiting for you to check it and finally publish.
So that's the modified text now. I will watch
that once just to make sure it's okay. If it's not
okay I can just go in and edit as it plays past. Okay, and you can.. do that. So I normally
just look and make sure there's nothing come through
some - sometimes you get some asterisks or marks
come through not quite as you'd like. That looks okay. All I need to do is check the
words. Once I've done that I publish and I then have the
closed captions added to my YouTube video that I
wanted. So that's the process in a nutshell. So that's how to add captions to youtube videos
quickly and for free. If you've enjoyed the video please subscribe to my channel which
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you'll find tips like these that might benefit you. Thank you for watching. Bye Bye.