- Have you ever watched a YouTube video with subtitles on?
Vote up here if yes, let us know why in the comments below
and this is your complete guide
on how to use them on your YouTube channel.
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- Let's start by making our way to the creator studio
via the profile button in the top right hand corner
of most YouTube screens.
From the main dashboard on the creator studio
click the subtitles link
down the left hand navigation bar
to display the channel's subtitle page.
This will list all the videos on your channel
sorted by the date they were uploaded.
We will look at the tab in the top
and the settings icon to the right shortly.
But first of all let's take a look at this list.
You can click the chevron under the language column
for any video to display more details.
In this example we can see
the original video title and description information.
As well as a automated captioning of a video
done by YouTube.
If you mouse over this area and click the three dots
you can jump to the subtitle screen
which at the time of recording
is still the old YouTube way of doing subtitles.
Of course YouTube will never do a perfect job
of automatically captioning your video.
So you can review and edit here if you wish.
Now you may be wondering how to get automated subtitles.
Well to do this go to the video details page
and click on more options and make sure the default language
is set to English.
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If you want to ensure this language is automatically set
for all future videos
go to settings in the creator studio.
Choose upload defaults, click on the advanced tab at the top
and set you video language here.
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And just a little extra point
sometimes even when you do get all of these settings right
YouTube simply doesn't auto caption the video.
I have no idea why.
Complain to YouTube.
On this same screen if you have a pre-pared subtitles file
this is where you would upload it directly to the video
selecting whether or not the filing includes timings.
However if YouTube has auto translated your video
here's an extra bonus
you can download the subtitle file
but make sure to change the extension of the file to SRT.
That will then allow you to open the caption file
in any notepad program to edit.
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If you want to translate the title
and description of the video
you can do that by again going to the video details page
then clicking on subtitles to the left
then clicking on add language.
Add the language you want to translate
then click add under the title and description column
and this pop-up screen will appear.
If you have vidIQ installed you will see
this translate button
that automatically does the job for you.
Now if we've gone through that a little too quickly for you
or if you want to know more about the vidIQ translation tool
check out the full tutorial over here.
Now this next part is really cool.
From the channels subtitles page
click on the settings icon.
This allows you to set your default language
which we have already looked at.
but also allows community contributions
for translating your video's
titles, descriptions, and subtitles.
This basically allows any YouTube user watching a video
to submit translations for your videos.
Pending your approval of course.
To see this in action
make sure you have community contributions turned on
and then from the channels subtitles page
click the community tab to show all those contributions
which are currently pending your review.
We can see that this video
currently has 16 language submissions.
So if we expand the list
we can see what language has been submitted
and whether it's for title and descriptions,
subtitles, or both.
Let's pick Portuguese which has
subtitle submissions but not titles.
When we mouse over in review,
we can click to review and edit the subtitles.
Now obviously this is translated into a language
I don't understand so Google Translate
will show you how it translates
back into your native language
so at least you know it's not total gibberish.
What I recommend doing is scrolling down
to the very bottom to make sure it is translated
all the way through and the final lines matched
what you would expect in your language.
Now at the top of the screen are three buttons.
If you're not satisfied you can click needs more work
which will send the translation back to the user
who translated it in the first place
or you can publish the subtitles straight to your video.
Since this video's title and description
had not been translated into Portuguese
a pop-up will not appear
giving you the additional option to do that.
A quick couple of clicks here
will confirm the translation of a title and description.
And then once you go back to the channel subtitles page
you can refresh this language which should disappear
as the translation job is now complete.
The rest of the channel subtitle tabs
pretty much explain themselves.
The drafts tab shows you videos
where you have worked on titles and descriptions
and subtitles but not yet published them.
Whereas the published tab
shows you all of the subtitles you have published.
Finally the share button the right
provide you with a YouTube link you can share
with your community to encourage them
to provide subtitles for your video content.
Hello I'm Rob by the way and you've just been watching
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Thank you very much for watching
and enjoy the rest of your video making day.