I'm going to show you how to add subtitles to your videos and translate them into most
languages.
You're going to want to go to your YouTube Studio specifically.
So when you click here you're going to go down to Studio.
And when you're in Studio you're going to go to content, and find the video you want
to add subtitles to.
So I have a video on the critical angle.
And when you're here you're going to go to subtitles.
And the first thing you'll have to do is set a language if it's not set yet.
So I'm going to say this is in English.
This just means identifying what language the actual video is recorded in so that YouTube
can auto-generate subtitles.
So YouTube just auto-generated subtitles for my video, it scanned through the video and
broke down what I said in words.
So I automatically have a set of subtitles available.
And I could immediately translate those into another language, but before I do that I want
to go through and make sure the subtitles are written correctly.
So you're going to go over here and click edit on classic studio.
And when you get here you can see that you can see all of the subtitles that it generated,
broken up by when they appear in the video.
Because these are auto-generated they don't really have any correct grammar, and I want
to make sure that the grammar is good before I translate it, so I'm going to go over here
and click edit.
And now I can go through the video and just edit the grammar so I'm going to capitalize
this, add a comma here, and just keep scrolling through until all the grammar in my subtitles
is correct.
If I need to physically hear what I'm saying I can always go over here and press play,
and it's going to skip to that part of the video where I'm editing the subtitle.
So I'm going to take just a minute to completely edit the subtitles to make them grammatically
correct.
You don't really have to type anything here unless the computer made a really drastic
mistake and you just need to enter in an entirely new section.
I've never found that to be the case.
Once you're completely done editing you're going to go up here and click publish edits.
And now you can see there are two versions of the subtitles published.
There's the English subtitles that I just wrote and there's also the automatic subtitles
that YouTube generated.
And I don't actually want the automatic subtitles to be available anymore because I know that
mine are grammatically correct and the automatic ones aren't, so I'm going to click on this,
and click unpublish, and then delete draft, so I just don't want these available at all.
If I really wanted I could always ask YouTube to go back and make a new automated version.
Okay so right now I have grammatically correct English subtitles and I'm ready to translate
the subtitles into other languages.
I'm going to go up here and click "add new subtitles or CC."
So I can see I already have a set of subtitles in English so I'm going to go down here and
choose a new language that I would like to translate into, so I'm going to choose Spanish.
So there are three options for the new Spanish subtitles: I can either upload a subtitles
file if I have one of those written up on my computer.
Those are a little complicated, we can basically ignore this option.
"Transcribe and auto-sync" only works if the original video is in Spanish.
So what we want is "Create new subtitles or CC."
Now when you're here this gives you the option to type in your translated subtitles, so if
you can speak the language that you're translating into you can feel free to just go through
each of these individual boxes and type in the translations for the original text.
So this is the original text in English, and when you type this here only this translated
text will appear when students choose to translate it into English.
If you don't know the other language well enough to translate it, a lot of languages
have this auto-translate option.
Not all the languages do, but most of the major world languages do have this auto-translate
option.
So if I click on this, and click auto-translate, YouTube is going to automatically generate
translations for every individual subtitle.
So now I have this set of translated subtitles ready to go so I'm going to click publish,
and now I can see I have two sets of subtitles: English and Spanish so if I open up the video
itself and go down here to settings and go to subtitles,
I now have the option of choosing either my English subtitles or I can choose my Spanish
subtitles as well.
If you ever want to add more languages you can go to edit video, go back to subtitles,
and there are a few different ways you can go about this.
You can either go to Classic Studio or you can just add a language here.
I'll just add a language here.
I'll choose French, and then I'll go to subtitles and click add.
And again I can just click "Create new subtitles or CC."
Hit auto-translate, and now I have subtitles in French.
I'll click Publish.
And now I can see I have three live options, and if I wanted to just keep adding to those
I can click here.
I can make subtitles in Arabic.
And you can just keep going through like that until you have all the languages that you'd
like to have as an option for your video.