Hey everybody. This is Jeff from the library and today we are going to talk about how to
edit your YouTube video subtitles to make them 100% accurate. So, they have to be 100% accurate
to make, to make them truly accessible. And YouTube does a great job, through artificial
intelligence, of generating basic text for your videos. But to make them truly accessible,
what you'll want to do is go in and add punctuation and capital letters. They don't
have any capital letters or punctuation, for your text, and no, so if you were truly hard of hearing
or deaf, and you were watching this, it would be pretty hard to make sense of the, the subtitles
they have. So, what I'm going to do, this is a video that I uploaded to YouTube last week.
What I'm going to do is go down to where that has the subtitles, and I'll just click here,
and you will always see this. Now, this takes them about 24 hours to generate. So,
their artificial intelligence subtitles won't be generated automatically, but you can see here,
this is the subtitles they have, and what you would want to do is click duplicate and edit.
And, you can see here they have all of the text, which looks pretty good. But, you'll
notice there's no capital letters and there's no punctuation. So, instead of trying to correct this
within YouTube right here, this will take you a long time. I used to do that, and it really
takes a long time. So, instead what I'm going to do, I'm going to highlight all of this text.
I'm going to copy it and then I'm going to go into Word. And I have a Word document set up here for
how to use Zoom transcript. And I have this saved, and I'll be saving this a lot as we do this. So,
I just pasted in all of the text, and you can, you can see pretty quickly just looking at it,
you can see there, there aren't, there aren't capital letters. So, here I'm going to use the,
the find and replace features within Word to do a lot of this work for me. Because, it would take a
long time if you were just doing it, just trying to, to look for it yourself. So, uh, what I'll
start with, I see my name there, and I see my name misspelled. So, I'll say this every time,
so this is really important. Ctrl+h, this will be what will save you. With this,
Ctrl+h is what launches the find and replace. So, Ctrl+h. Every time we have jeff, lower case j,
I want Jeff with an uppercase J. Replace all, and there was, it was only in there once. Okay, that's
okay. We will do a lot of find and replaces here. So, I see my name there, wall. Now there could be
other places I say wall, so I will just capitalize that and spell it correctly. There probably aren't
other situations like that in there. Okay, the big thing is that I every time there's an i,
it will not be capitalized. I, I, it's all over the place, I. So, what I'll do, and there's a
very specific way we'll do this. Ctrl+h. Anytime there's a lowercase i with a space after it,
I want that replaced with an uppercase I with a space after it. And that space is very important,
because I don't want all of the i's, the letter i's in this document replaced with
capital I's. I just want i's that are standing alone, i with a space, replace all. Okay,
there were 20 of those in there. That would have taken a long time if I was just doing that by
myself or just with my with my own eyes. The next thing would be I'm, I'll, I'd the I contractions.
Those need to be capitalized. Let's do it again Ctrl+h. Lowercase i with an apostrophe should
always be uppercase I with an apostrophe, replace all. Seven replacements, that was pretty good.
And then now, as I'm looking through it, I'm just seeing things, I'm, I'm seeing words that should
be capitalized. So this is a video about how to use Zoom. Zoom is going to be in here a lot,
and it, that should be capitalized. So Ctrl+h any time the word Zoom is in there
with the lowercase z. We will replace it with a capital Z oom, and replace all. 13 replacements.
So, this is saving me so much time. I used to do this all in YouTube in their little text box. And
you, text box in YouTube, and it, it would take forever. Okay one thing I, I will mention again,
we're not done with the capitalization, but one thing I want to mention very quickly,
because this is very important. Do not get rid of these spaces between these paragraphs. They're
not really paragraphs. What these are, these are pauses when I'm speaking. This was a pause when I
was speaking. This needs to stay in here so that the text can line up with your video. So don't,
don't get rid of those spaces. Okay, you'll see those around here. Do not get rid of those.
The thing you have to remember about this, this is not a paper for your English class. You're not
correcting this Word document to turn into someone to read like this at all. That's not what this is.
This is text that's going to feed into YouTube that's going to read out each one of these about
that long will be all that's seen at a time. It'll just be these little lines of text. They should be
formatted correctly, but this Word document is not at all what the final product will be. So, don't
correct this like you're correcting something that's going to be read like this, because it's
not going to be read like this unless it can be read like this later as a transcript if you want.
But, my, my goal is to make the viewer of this have a better experience with the captions. So,
that was kind of a long description, but don't get rid of these things. Okay, let me look through
here and see if I notice any other things that just stick out that should be capitalized here.
Okay, that etc that should have a period there definitely. Okay, so I think that I have all of
the big things that the repeating words that would need to be capitalized. So, now we get to the part
that's hard. Now we're going to add periods and commas. Okay, and when we add periods and commas,
there's going to be a lot of them. I'm not going to make you watch all of it, but I'll do, I'll
do quite a bit of it here. We only, it's only a two-page document. It's not very long. What I will
do here is, I will just read through this and I will add periods and commas. And then at the end,
those periods will serve as placeholders in my find and replace to replace with capital
letters. And it makes it a lot easier if we do it this way. So, my method here, my left hand
my left index finger, I'm putting on the period key on my keyboard. My left middle finger,
I have on the comma right next to it. Okay, and my right, on my right hand, I'm down with the
arrow keys. So, I can go through this quickly. My right, to middle finger is on the right arrow key,
and my right index finger is on the down arrow key. Okay, so here we go. I'll go through some of
this. Hey everybody, period, this is Jeff Wahl. We're going to talk today about how to use z,
Zoom. So if I request a meeting, so if you request a meeting with me, or a research session,
comma, it will be over Zoom. So, I say "so" a lot, and there should be a comma
the way that I say so. So, I'm going to show you today how to use Zoom,
comma, because of a lot of times, comma, that can be confusing for people.
So, I will send you an invite to a meeting if you request a meeting with me.
And the email will look kind of like this. And then in the video, I show that.
And as you're reading through this, it can be a little hard to, to tell. You want to get as close
and I might have to watch the video again, but in most cases, I'm going to kind of guess here. And
then I'll go back and firm it up with the video. Like this, the location of the Zoom meeting,
and the way people speak, you don't always speak in complete sentences. And I, when I record these
videos, I don't work from a script, I just talk. And I think those are the best videos. That's why
I'm doing it this way. A lot of people will do all of this first, do the whole transcript and
then read in their video. That's okay, but you, you, it sounds like you're reading. You sound
like an infomercial when you do that, and it's hard to keep people really watching. I think
it's better to keep it real. So it's a lot more work. But, the location of the Zoom meeting this,
is, and you also repeat yourself when you speak. You'll see that when I do this, this is the link
you would, and I'll go back here, there should have been a period, click to get into Zoom.
So, this would be,
comma, you could copy and paste that, or I always put the link inside the meeting too.
So, you could just click on this link, and then the, comma, the Zoom window will launch. Now, now
again, you are not correcting a paper. The point of this, someone could read it as a transcript,
but the point of this is to feed into YouTube to correct their, their captions. So,
if you repeat words, leave them in there. Don't get rid of that, because this text
has to line back up with the audio of my voice talking. And if I, if, if I edit this to try
to make this look better, for, here it's not going to link up correctly with my voice. Okay,
and we'll put a period here. So, what I do, I just go through this. I read
through this and I add places where there should be periods and commas.
All right, we're back. I didn't make you watch me adding all those periods and commas, but it really
only took a few minutes for me to do it. You get, you get pretty quick at it. So, now I'm going to
show you some other tricks. Um, one thing that really makes this a lot easier is, if I highlight
a letter that I want to make capitalized if it's lowercase, on my keyboard I can click Shift+f3.
You see that? And I could go the other way too if I wanted to make something uncapitalized.
Shift+f3. Shift+f3. So, it goes back and forth like that. So, now what I, what I'll
probably do right now, is every time there's a pause, usually where there's a pause, it's at
the end of a sentence. And then you'll see that, that blank space there so I'll capitalize that.
There's the end of a sentence, and here's a gap, and again don't take those gaps out. Those gaps
are helpful in making this text link up with your voice on the recording. So, Shift+f3,
there you go. Now, what I'm going to do, instead of going through Shift+f3 for every place there's
a period, what I'm going to do is do a whole lot of Ctrl+h, find and replace here. So, Ctrl+h.
So, this is kind of interesting how I do this. And this is why I put the periods in first.
Every place there's a period and a space,
and a lowercase a, I want to be a period, a space and an uppercase A, so that all the sentences that
begin with A should be capitalized. Now, okay it found six replacements.
And, then what I do, I'll go back to the top here.
I do this going through for all the most commonly used, used letters to begin sentences. It's,
this is seems tedious, but it's, it's so much easier than doing it the other way. Which,
I used to do it just with my eyes. So, every time there's a period, space, lowercase b,
I want there to be a period, space, uppercase B. You know found one. Same thing for c,
zero. D,
zero, that's okay. E,
and I just send it down the line like this. Found 1 for f.
0 for g, h, 3 for h.
I, 13 for i.
One for j.
L, one for l. M,
zero for m. And make 3 for n.
4 for o.
I usually skip over q because q, very rarely do I start a sentence with q, 0 for q. How about r?
0 for r. S, whoops, I did it backwards, that, and no we got that right.
Okay, 13 for s. There's quite a few for s. T,
u, one for u.
v,
w.
And then I'm going to do y, because I don't I don't think I began any sentences with
x or z. Okay, so I know that seems kind of time consuming, and everything I'm doing
here might seem a little time consuming. This is so much easier than if I was doing this,
just trying to look at it with my eyes. And I used to do it that way, or trying to
do this within YouTube. This used to take me hours, and hours, and hours. And this has only
taken me about 14 minutes so far. And I know, and I would be going a lot quicker if I wasn't
narrating this too. This has made my life so much easier. This, being able to do these things,
so looking through, oh also another thing, save this document a lot. Save this a lot so that you
don't lose all of your, all of your other, because we're doing a lot of work in here.
So, what I would do now, to double check it, I would do Ctrl+f find, and show me every place
there's a period. I want to light up every place there's a period to see if I missed anything.
And I'm just looking through it, looks like everything looks pretty good.
Okay, yeah it looks like, it looks good. It looks like I got them all. I might,
no, I think I got them all. Okay, so there's, we basically have a, a completed,
uh, transcript here now. And I've got this saved too, so I can use this for a transcript.
So, now what I will do, I'm going to highlight all of this text I've corrected,
control copy. I'm going to go back into YouTube and I'm going to paste all of that back in there.
I'll backspace that once, it always adds an extra space there. Okay, now when I publish
now, it has this new, these new subtitles. And these will be, these will be added immediately.
So, when I click on this video and watch this,
there's the subtitles. You can see, let me mute myself out, there, soon,
you can see those subtitles are immediately added. So, it really is quick once you do this. And now
this video is a hundred percent, um, accessible. And I also, because I saved the transcript of it
as I was correcting it, I also have a transcript here. So, this is how you do this. I, I wish I
could say it's easier, but it's really not that hard. That really didn't take me very long. And
if I wasn't narrating this through a video, this would have only taken me a few minutes.
So, don't give up on making videos just because you can't get them accessible,
and, and you can't afford to pay someone else to do the subtitles. You can do them yourself very
easily. So, that's all I have for you. Uh, let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, bye.