Having captions or subtitles for your YouTube video is a good idea especially when you want to reach a wider audience around the world. Google has indeed noted this and the team has come up with some good features helping you to add captions to your YouTube video easily and quickly.
After you have uploaded a video to your YouTube account, you will be presented with two options of generating subtitles for your video. The first is CaptionTube web app that Google has created. Another is a Google speech technology to automatically assign the right times to each caption. Here, we’re going to explore the use of CaptionTube.
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Direct your browser to CaptionTube and sign in using your Google Account. After you’ve done that, you’ll have two options for importing a video. You can either import a list of all the videos on your account, or you can specify the web address for a public video (The YouTube URL for each video uploaded). You will be requested to allow access from your YouTube account.
Then, click the edit button next to your video once it’s been imported to get to the caption creation screen. You’ll see your video on the left. Click Add Caption for any frame or time period that you want to include your texts. Then Save it.
Easy right? When you’ve added all your captions, click publish. Choose the “Download to My Computer” option (either file format will work) and CaptionTube will give you a text file that you can tweak as needed and add to your videos. To add the file to your video, go to your YouTube My Videos page, find your video, and click the “Caption” button to reach the caption options. Click the button to add new captions, browse to find the file CaptionTube gave you, check the “Caption file (includes time codes)” option, and hit “Upload File".
