Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my channel, Jennifer
Marie, where I teach you how to become a work from home
freelancer and also teach you how to become a YouTuber. So
in today's video, I'm going to teach you how to add subtitles
and captions, both automatically and manually.
adding subtitles and closed captions to your videos allows
you to reach more people. There are many viewers out
there who are deaf or hard of hearing, or viewers who speak
another language. So adding closed captions or subtitles,
means those people will be more likely to click on your
videos. So for example, if we look here at my sparkle
English channel, and I go to my video section, you can see
here that most of my videos have CC or closed captions
added. There are a few videos however, that I still have to
add closed captions or subtitles, too. So there are a
few different ways that you can add subtitles. First of
all, you can go to YouTube studio by going to
studio.youtube.com and then on the left, click on subtitles,
then you can choose the video that you want to add subtitles
to. And you can see here that I have already published
subtitles to this video, you can add multiple languages as
well by clicking on add language, and choosing your
language or the language that you want to add subtitles.
Let's say I wanted to add Spanish subtitles. And then
you'd click Add. From here, you could upload a file that
already has it time stamped a .SRT file, or you could type
them out manually or Auto Translate etc. However, I'm
going to show you how to add captions automatically first
to existing videos. So I like to just go to my channel and
click on videos and find videos that I still need to
add captions to. So let's go down to my very first video,
which is the intro to my channel and click on that
video. Then I'm going to click edit video. And then I'm going
to click on subtitles. So if you have had your video
uploaded for a while to YouTube, YouTube will have
automatically use their speech to text software to give you a
transcript that you can then edit. So instead of clicking
add language, we're going to edit these automatic subtitles
that YouTube has created for us. We're going to click
Duplicate and Edit. And you can see here the transcript
that YouTube has created for this video. So what you can do
is press play as you edit it. You can also select pause
while typing and go through and edit this transcript
before we sync it to the video. So I'm just going to
quickly edit this and add correct capitalization and
punctuation. Okay, so once you are finished, you can review
the whole thing or leave it as it is. Another thing you could
do is highlight all of this and right click and go to copy
and then paste it into Grammarly even the free
version of Grammarly and get Grammarly to automatically
correct the punctuation and capitalization and then re
paste it back into here. And once you're done that just
click on Edit timings. And you can see that YouTube has
automatically put this into caption groups. So the
captions are synced with your video. So once you're done
that you just have to click publish. So now when we go
back to our channel and I go to the very bottom this video
now has CC Closed Captions added in in my experience
having this icon can improve your videos ranking and also
encourages more people to click on your video if they're
trying to learn something and you have subtitles, especially
if they are hard of hearing. Okay, so now I'm going to
teach you how to add subtitles right after you upload a video
and I'm going to show you how to add subtitles manually. So
you'll click here on Create then click upload video. Then
you're going to drag and drop your video or select files to
upload. Now your video will start uploading and you're
going to scroll down to where it says language and captions
and select your video language. So in this case it
is English. Then you can fill out all your details and click
Next. Then here under video elements, we're going to click
Add beside add subtitles, so you'll have to wait until your
video has finished uploading and you have a few options.
You can wait until YouTube automatically transcribes your
video and then simply edit it as I showed you before or you
may want to type manually so you can create subtitles and
closed captions by typing them in as you watch the video. So
let's click on that.
So what we can do is press play, and type the caption. As
we listen to the video, you can click here on keyboard
shortcuts. And these are different shortcuts that you
can use to type faster if you wish. You can also select
pause while typing and that if that helps you as well. So I'm
going to enable that and then click play and listen as I
type the caption,
"Two minute affirmations: how to attract real love. Two
minute affirmations: how to attract real love."
So this caption group, I want it to end right here. So I'm
just going to click and drag so that way the caption will
last as the speaker is speaking. So to add a new
caption, we can click here, plus caption or down below add
new caption line,
I am worthy. I am enough.
And again, just clicking and dragging this blue caption
group here so it ends when the voice ends. So you would just
go through and continue adding new captions and syncing them
manually. And then when you're finished, you can press Done.
Now this way, definitely takes much more time, but it allows
you to control exactly what is in the caption groups. Another
way you could do it, I'm actually going to click here
and choose Delete, is click Add again. And this time, I'm
going to click on Auto Sync. I really like to use this
method. So what you can do is type the words that are spoken
manually again, but this time, we will auto sync it. So I'm
just going to type the words as I hear them
Two minute affirmations: how to attract real love.
Okay, and once you're finished, all you have to do
is click Edit timings. And then it will say taking longer
than expected syncing captions to the timeline is taking
longer than expected. You can safely save and close this
dialog and check back later. If you want to review the
timings before they go live. Save the track as a draft. If
you'd like the track to be published once the timings are
assigned, choose save. So if you want to review them before
they're published, you can click Save Draft, but I like
to just click Save and Close. So you can see right now it is
assigning timings to your captions. But in half an hour
or more or less than that, depending on how long your
video is, the subtitles will be automatically synced to
your video. So you can just go next, next and then under
visibility you can choose to make this private, unlisted or
public. So I'm just going to click public for example, and
then click publish. Okay, so now you can see that this
video has this CC and when we click on it, we can click on
CC and it has automatically synced our captions to the
video.
If you wanted to make any edits, we can click Edit
Video. Go to subtitles. And you can see here it says
published. Let's click on Edit. And you can see that it
automatically synced the manually added captions to the
video. So that way we didn't have to go ahead and add
captions group by group. So that is another way that you
can do this. So finally, I'm going to teach you how you can
upload a subtitles file type directly to your video, you
can use .srt, .sub. So what you're going to do is go to
your video, then click edit video. Then you're going to
click subtitles. Then you'll click add language, select
your language, and then click Add under subtitles. Then here
you're going to click Upload File. And then you will select
whether or not your subtitle file type has timing or
doesn't have timing mine has timing and click Continue.
Then you'll locate your file type and then you can see that
it has automatically added my subtitles with the timing.
This is what a subtitles file type looks and you can
generate this in a number of ways. Perhaps you used a
website like Rev to generate this file type for you or
something like Otter.ai. In any case, this is another way
that you can add your subtitles. And then simply
click Publish. And now when you go to your YouTube video
again, you will see the CC Closed Captions icon, and it
has uploaded your subtitles correctly. Okay, so that's it
for today's video on different ways that you can add
subtitles to your YouTube videos. Make sure to subscribe
to my channel for more videos just like this one. Thanks for
watching, and I'll see you in my next tutorial.