Did you know that 85% of social media videos are watched on mute? For example,
sometimes I'll watch YouTube videos with the sound turned off while watching TV or listening
to music. If you add closed captions to your video, people that are hard of hearing or have
the sound turned off can understand your content by reading the captions under your video. Here's
how to quickly enable and edit automatic closed captions for YouTube videos. All these videos
contain closed captions because they have a CC under the video except for this video, which
doesn't have closed captions. If I click on the video, then click cc. under the video, it'll show
the autogenerated captions under the video. On mobile you tap cc to view the captions on the
video. If you want to turn them off, tap cc again. Now you won't see any captions on the video. Often
these captions are not accurate, so I want to show you how to edit these autogenerated captions.
Click on the content tab in YouTube studio, then select the video you wish
to add closed captions to, or enter the title in the search box to find
it. Click on subtitles. Here's the automated transcript created by YouTube. Click duplicate
and edit. Here's the automated transcription from YouTube. As you can see, it's not entirely
accurate, so you can play the video, then edit the text as the video is playing. Alternatively,
click edit timings. It'll show the captions with the timestamps for your video. YouTube
does a good job of syncing the captions with the audio from your video. All you have to do now is
play the video, then edit the captions. So I've capitalized my sentence and added a question mark.
Now you can just quickly edit your captions as you play your video. If you want to remove a caption,
place your cursor in the box, then click the trash icon that says, "remove caption line."
Your captions will appear on the video as you play it, and they'll also appear down here.
You can also check the pause box while you're typing. If you want to enter your subtitles
faster with keyboard shortcuts, click keyboard shortcuts. So when editing your captions,
you can pause or play the video, edit previous subtitle, edit the next subtitle,
send backwards by 5 seconds or send forwards by 5 seconds using these keys on your keyboard. After
you've edited all your captions, click publish. Now you'll see your edited transcription at the
top and the auto generated one from YouTube at the bottom. Now if I click cc at the bottom of
the video that says subtitles and closed captions, then play the video, most closed
captions will appear at the bottom of the video. Now you also see that YouTube is added CC at the
bottom of the video, which means closed captions are available for that video.
Here are 4 main reasons to add close captions to YouTube videos. If 85% of people watching
videos on social media platforms have mute turned on, it's highly likely that some of
your target audience is doing the same. They may be watching your videos while working out the gym,
or perhaps are watching your videos at work without the boss knowing because they have
the sound turned off. Here's how to turn on or off the default caption setting for your YouTube
channel. Click on your profile picture, click on settings. , click on playback
and performance. Check always show captions and check include autogenerate captions when
available. This option turns automatic captions on or off for videos that don't have captions added.
Number two. It helps your videos get discovered in YouTube and Google search. This is because
captions help the algorithm understand what your video content is all about.
Number three. Increase watch time. If a viewer can't understand or can't hear what you're saying
in the video, but can read the captions under your video, they'll keep watching the video
leading to increased watch time. When you get a high audience attention on your YouTube video,
it triggers the YouTube algorithm to suggest your videos to a wider audience.
Number four. Create a blog post from the transcript. Click the three dots next to
options. Click the arrow next to download. Click on .srt, and here's a transcript containing the
timestamps and the text of your video. If you just want to post a text of your video content,
remove the timestamps. If you're on a Mac, select the text edit file then delete the timestamps.
also recommend embedding your video in the blog post to help
you get discovered in Google and YouTube.
Do you want to reach even more people? Watch this video on the screen right now titled
"Do This Trick to Keep Them Watching and Get More Views." You'll be glad.