Hi there, if you’d like to contribute Closed Captions or Subtitles to your favourite YouTubers
videos, stay tuned, watch this video as I show you how.
Hi there. David Walsh here, once again, from DavidWalshOnline.com and I hope you’re doing
well. In this video we’re going to show you how
you can add your closed captions or subtitles to your favourite YouTubers videos.
Now, YouTube have released this back in July, earlier this year, and it’s still in beta
so it’s not available for everyone. So, what YouTube have done is given this extra
functionality to a couple of YouTube channels so that their fans and their subscribers can
add subtitles of their own to the videos. Now, this allows you to translate videos into
different languages as long as that functionality is switched on, on the video. Now, you can
translate your favourite videos into different languages, all with your help.
So, if you fancy translating those videos into Swahili or Greek or French or any other
language that you prefer, watch this video as I show you what to do.
Ok. So, unfortunately creator captions is not widely available for everybody, just yet,
but you can start on a few select channels, right now.
To find out where they are, you need to go to this page, here, which is ‘Contributing
Subtitles and Closed Captions on YouTube’ the link to which is in the description below.
And when you go to the page, you click on the participating channels and then it gives
you a list of channels which have this creator captions available for you to add captions
too. So, pick a channel and then the next thing
to do is to find a video. Now, not every video has ‘Enabled’ on it. It’s down to the
individual channel themselves. So, I found one here on ‘Barely Political’
and you’ll know that they have the transcription available. You go to ‘More’, here, ‘Transcript’
and under transcript you’ll see the language and if they have ‘Add Subtitles CC’ then
you can add them. Obviously, if that’s not there you can’t add any subtitles.
So, when you find a video that does, click on subtitles and then you go over to the right,
here and you click on the dropdown and then you can add either any of the languages that
are on the dropdown or if you pick, just type ‘a’ or any other letter you’ll get a
list of other languages there, as well. So, you have all these languages, I think
there are 49, whatever there is, so you can pick anything from Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian,
all the way down to Vietnamese, if you so choose.
So, we’re going to select English, United Kingdom, because we have this American English
thing here and we’d like to help them have proper translations in proper English. As
we all know, Irish people have the best English in the world and that’s why we should be
adding subtitles to this particular video. So,we can just go in here and we just type
in –… glass- so we type in, all the way through, and we can go in and correct their
English into proper English. Once we have that done we can go down to the
submit button, here. And if you are translating into another language you might want to use
this pause video, while typing ‘Selection’ here, so that if you are translating into,
say German or Bengali or Vietnamese or Thai or anything like that, that the video will
pause while you’re typing in your particular language.
Once, you have everything set up, click on ‘Submit’ and it will come up in the notice,
telling you that these will not be made available just yet, because they have to be reviewed
and that the channel will be sending your username over to the particular channel, obviously,
and any other submissions you have sent in that particular language, will be overridden.
So, I’ll just click on submit and you’ll see what happens when that happens. There,
you go. So, your subtitles are submitted for review.
Now, I want to go over to my site here now. I want to see my subtitles I have submitted
to other channels. To do so, you go ‘Dashboard’, go up to the top, click on creators studio,
over to the left hand side, click on ‘Community’ and then under ‘Contribute and Subtitles’,
you’ll see it there. You can see here, I have the PewDiePie class
events Google+ and I’ve added some subtitles to that. And if I want to I can click on ‘Edit’
and it will bring me back in and I can go ahead and edit any of the translations on
those subtitles that I want. And then, under the submitted tab here, we
have the submitted video, it’s the exact same one. We can see this one is submitted
and we can view that, there. So, there you go, that’s how you add closed
captions or subtitles in different languages to your favourite YouTube videos.
Now, one issue I did find is that once you click on the submit button, you can’t delete
it. You can go back and edit it but you can’t delete it.
So, do make sure that you want to submit those subtitles to those videos before you hit the
submit button. Now, as I said, the program is still in beta,
so, it is not widely available to everybody. But as soon as it is, your friendly neighbourhood
YouTube expert, right here, will be letting you know all about it.
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Bye for now.