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YouTube supports many ways to add subtitles to videos. Those different methods are all located in the “Video Manager” section of your YouTube channel. Once accessed, click “Subtitle and CC” from within the “Edit” menu and choose how to add subtitles. [1] X Research Source Users can also contribute subtitles to other people’s videos by opening the video, accessing the settings and selecting “Add Subtitles or CC”. ) if authorized by the owner.
Steps
With the Subtitle tool on YouTube videos
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Sign in to your YouTube account.
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Click “My Channel”. This button is near the top of the sidebar and will take you to your personal YouTube page.
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Click on “Video Manager”. This button is located on the top left of the channel, after clicking, a list of videos that you have uploaded will appear.
- You can also access Video Manager by clicking on the account icon and selecting “Creator Studio > Video Manager”.
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Click the “Edit” drop-down arrow and select “Subtitles and CC”. The “Edit” button along with the menu is usually next to the video to which you want to add subtitles. The subtitle management interface will open.
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Click “Add New Subtitles” and select “Create new subtitles or closed captions”. This button is located to the right of the video on the subtitle management interface. A text area will appear next to the video for you to enter subtitles.
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Select the subtitle language. This will categorize your captions for future worldwide YouTube viewers.
- Vietnamese subtitles on Vietnamese videos can be useful to non-native speakers (and others, such as the deaf), so don’t be discouraged by adding subtitles in the original language. .
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Play the video and pause when you want to enter subtitles. The playback feature can be used to listen to the speech before entering the subtitles in the text area.
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Enter subtitles in the text area. Click the blue “+” next to the text area to add subtitles. The subtitles will show up in the caption transcript and timeline below the video.
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Adjust the length of the subtitles. Subtitles will be added to the timeline at the location where you stopped the video. Click and drag the bar either side of the caption to change the start and end times that the text displays.
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Publish videos. After adding the subtitles, click “Publish” to upload the subtitles to the video.
Upload subtitle file to video
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Open a text editor. Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on Mac are pretty good free options, but you can use any text editor.
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Create subtitles. Subtitle files use a specific format: subtitle number, timestamp and text – each syntax is on its own line. The timestamp is in the format of hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds.
- For example:
first
01:15:05:00
This is a sample subtitle copy text. - The example above will display the sentence “Here is a sample subtitle copy text” as the first subtitle at the 1 hour, 15 minute, and 5 second mark in the video.
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Go to “File” and select “Save As…”. Here you can set the file type to use the SubRip extension (or srt – a popular text format for videos with subtitles).
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Enter the file name with the extension “.srt”. For example: ‘phu de.srt’. The end-of-name extension is used to set the file type.
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Click “Save As Type” and select “All Files”. This menu is below the file name field. The “All Files” option will allow the extension to take effect instead of just plain text.
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Click the “Encoding” menu and select “UTF-8”. SubRip files will not work properly if you do not set this encoding option. Once done, click “Save”.
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Go to the “Video Manager” section on YouTube. Log in to your YouTube account and then click “My Channel > Video Manager” to see the list of uploaded videos.
- You can also access Video Manager by clicking on the account icon and selecting “Creator Studio > Video Manager”.
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Click the “Edit” drop-down arrow and select “Subtitles and CC”. The “Edit” button along with the menu is usually next to the video to which you want to add subtitles. The subtitle management interface will open.
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Click “Add New Subtitles” and select “Upload a File”. A menu will pop up for you to choose the type of file to upload.
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Choose “Subtitle File” from the pop-up menu. A window will open for you to select the file to upload.
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Browse for the file you created and select “Upload”. The subtitles will be taken from the .srt file and added to the timeline and transcript of the subtitles.
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Adjust subtitles. You can edit changes to the text in the caption transcript, or click and drag the bar either side of the caption on the timeline to fine-tune the timestamp.
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Publish videos. Click “Publish” to upload subtitles to the video.
By YouTube’s Automatic Transcript Sync feature
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Go to the “Video Manager” section on YouTube. Log in to your YouTube account and then click “My Channel > Video Manager” to see the list of uploaded videos.
- You can also access Video Manager by clicking on the account icon and selecting “Creator Studio > Video Manager”.
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Click the “Edit” drop-down arrow and select “Subtitles and CC”. The “Edit” button along with the menu is usually next to the video to which you want to add subtitles. The subtitle management interface will open.
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Click “Add New Subtitles” and select “Transcribe and auto-sync”. A text area will appear next to the video for you to enter subtitles.
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Select the subtitle language.
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Copy the audio in the video into the text area. Retype anything you hear in the text area to the right of the video. You don’t have to worry about timing.
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Click “Set Timings”. YouTube will automatically sync what you write to the time in the video.
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Time alignment. Self-synchronizing captions will show up on the timeline. Click and drag the bar on either side of the subtitle to align the content to match the time.
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Post videos. Once done, click “Publish” to upload the subtitles to the video.
Contribute subtitles to other people’s videos
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Select a video to contribute. Go to a video uploaded by someone else.
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Click the “Settings” gear icon. This button is visible in the video player, after you click it the video options menu will appear.
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Click on “Subtitles/CC” and select “Add subtitles or CC”. You will be redirected to the subtitle editing interface.
- Important note: not all users allow others to contribute subtitles. If the owner has disabled this feature, there will be no “Add Subtitles or CC” option, meaning you cannot contribute. [2] X Research Source
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Select the subtitle language.
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Play the video and pause when you want to enter subtitles. The playback feature can be used to listen to the speech before entering subtitles in the text area to the right of the video.
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Adjust subtitles. As you type, the subtitles will be included in the timeline at the point where the video pauses. Click and drag the bar on either side of the caption to change the length of the text.
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Submit subtitles. Click “Submit for review” to submit your subtitles for the video owner to see.
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Complete the submission process. You will be asked if the subtitles are complete. If “No” is selected, other contributors can continue to edit the subtitles you left unfinished before the finished version is sent to the video owner. And if you choose “Yes”, it means that the subtitles will be sent for review. Once selected, click “Submit” to complete your contribution.
Advice
- Currently, we cannot add subtitles/subtitles separately on YouTube mobile app.
- You can also apply the above methods when uploading a new video by clicking the “Upload” button and selecting the video to post.
- If you don’t finish captioning in one go, YouTube will automatically save your work as a draft caption. You can access this draft later by selecting “My Drafts” and continuing to subtitle the video.
- Don’t forget to double check for spelling errors.
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YouTube supports many ways to add subtitles to videos. Those different methods are all located in the “Video Manager” section of your YouTube channel. Once accessed, click “Subtitle and CC” from within the “Edit” menu and choose how to add subtitles. [1] X Research Source Users can also contribute subtitles to other people’s videos by opening the video, accessing the settings and selecting “Add Subtitles or CC”. ) if authorized by the owner.
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