How to add captions to a facebook video. So let's say you have a video you want to upload
it to Facebook and you want to add captions to it. Well in this video I'm going to show you exactly
how to add captions to a video automatically and then how to actually upload those captions along
with your video to Facebook because for some reason they don't make it that easy and with
that being said let's get started! So the tool we're going to be using to do this is called Veed
so you can either head over to google and google veed which is v-e-e-d and click on the first link.
If not, as usual the link is going to be in the description down below. Once you're on Veed you
want to create a new project and then once you're in Veed's video editor you want to click on the
upload button and then here we're going to browse through our documents and select the video that
we want to upload to Facebook and add captions to and then click on open. So as we can see our video
is now imported into veed's video editor and if I click on play "hey everyone i hope you're all
doing great welcome to the social media podcast". As you can see we have our video in Veed's video
editor so to begin adding captions to our Facebook video we're going to head over to the left toolbar
and click on the subtitle tab under the subtitle tab we're going to be using the automatic subtitle
tool to automatically transcribe all of the audio from our video into text and turn that text into
subtitles so before you click on start you want to make sure that you select the language that your
video is in as you can see in this video we're talking in english but you can choose from any
language that you want. Once you've chosen your language click on start and then the Veed will
take anywhere between a few seconds to a few minutes depending on the length of your video.
As you can see it's just finished and if I bring the playhead back to the beginning we have our
captions. Now if I click play "hey everyone i hope you're all doing great welcome to the social media
podcast i'm your host Alec and in this". So as you can see we have our captions on the actual video
canvas, we can also see them in the timeline, and then in the subtitle editor on the left
and the first thing you might have noticed is that there was a mistake within the first caption.
As you can see it only has "everyone" instead of "hey everyone" but this is very easy to fix
if we need to edit the text. All I'm going to do is click on the text bubble where the mistake is
and then just type out "hey everyone" and as you can see my caption is now fixed.
If I want to adjust the timing for my caption all I have to do is click and drag within the timeline
or if I want to be a bit more precise what I can do is actually change the timing right here as you
can see i could put it at 0.1 and it changes to 0.1 or I could place the playhead and then click
on the beginning stopwatch and if I want to end it sooner place the playhead where I want this
caption to end and click on the end stopwatch. But I want it to end right here so I'm just going to
place it there and click like that as you can see we now have our captions. Now because we're going
to be uploading these captions to Facebook, we're not going to bother with the style tab.
If you do want to hard code the captions into the video you can change the style of your captions
and then if you click on the export button in the top right your video will then be saved with these
subtitles burned into the actual mp4 file but once we have our captions what we're going to do
is click on the options tab and here we can choose to download them as an SRT file so if I click on
the 'download SRT' file button and as we can see at the bottom of our screen we have the subtitles
that have been downloaded so what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on show in folder and we are
going to extract them right here so if I extract here as you can see we have our dot SRT file so
now what I'm going to do is head over to Facebook and upload our video with these captions so once
I'm on Facebook to upload a video, very simple. We click on the photo/video button and now again
we're just going to browse through our documents and find the video that we want to upload so if I
select this video right here and I click on open as you can see this is now imported into Facebook
and if we have a look around there isn't an option to actually add closed captions to this video and
if I post this then this is now being posted to Facebook once it's posted I can then actually
add closed captions to the video so as we can see we've got a notification that our video is ready
to watch so if I click on this "hello everyone hope you're all doing great welcome" as you
can see we have our video right here and to add captions what we actually have to do we can't do
it from the settings cog either we're going to click on these three little dots here and then
we're going to click on edit video and once we've clicked on edit video we'll be taken to a new page
and this is where we'll be able to upload our SRT file. So once this page is loaded if we scroll
down under the captions section right here it says no captions exist yet so what I'm going to do is
choose an SRT file to upload and this is the SRT file that we created within Veed so if I select
this button now i'm going to head to my downloads tab and as we can see we have our SRT file that
we created just earlier and I'm going to click on open and as we can see this has now been uploaded
so what we're going to do is just click on the save button right here and as you can see when
we clicked on the save button we got an error message and this is because we actually need
to rename our captions file. So if I open up the downloads folder right here just again as you can
see the name of our SRT file is this right here so we actually need to change this if we take a look
it says upload your SRT file caption using this format so we're going to have to use the file name
and then do this formatting right here just to show that our captions are in english
so if I open this up again right now so what I'm going to do is just completely rename this so I'm
just going to paste this and we're just going to call this Facebook video podcast just like this
and then it has to be EN for English and then GB for great bits and SRT so I've renamed it. Now if
I go back to Facebook and I click on choose file i'm going to select the exact same one but now
we've formatted it correctly to Facebook's liking if i click on open and then we click on save
as you can see no error message and we're back to the video and if we click on this little settings
cog right here as you can see captions we can toggle them on so now if i click play
"Host Alec and in this podcast we're going to be talking about everything and anything
related to social media so get comfortable grab your favorite drink" and that is how
to add captions to your Facebook videos for some reason Facebook makes it so complicated
but there you go. If you have any questions please let us know in the comment section
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