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  • Hello and welcome to a short, informative guide on how to add captions to your YouTube videos

  • I’m Jessica Kellgren-Fozard and I’m a deaf YouTuber who also watches way more YouTube

  • than is probably healthy so I really do know the importance of captions!

  • This video is the second in a series about captions for International Week of the Deaf

  • and if you don’t know why theyre so important then please do go back and watch the first

  • video where I explain how without captions youre kind of limiting the reach of your videos

  • and alienating potential subscribers.

  • [Whispering] Not to mention that videos with closed captions or foreign language subtitles are ranked higher

  • by the algorithm and will have a better chance of being in the top searches.

  • Tomorrow’s video will answer questions about what to include in captions. And the fourth

  • video in the series will break down the secret language of captions.

  • How To Caption

  • Firstly well need to get to the captions section of the platform:

  • Go to your Video Manager Click the drop down menu next to the video

  • you would like to add captions to selectsubtitles/cc

  • Choose your language Now you have one of three options:

  • Upload a file’. This is for those of you who have already created a caption

  • file off site. These types of files contain both the text and time codes for when each

  • line of text should be displayed. Some files also include position and style information,

  • which is especially useful for deaf or hard of hearing viewers. It is a bit of an extra

  • step if youre just starting out but it does mean you can create one captions file

  • and then reuse it on every platform where youll upload the video.

  • There are a number of websites that will allow you to create such a file.

  • Transcribe and Auto-sync’. Great for videos that already have a script or a voiceover.

  • Simply copy and paste your script into the box and once youre finished clickset

  • timings’. This will take a few minutes as YouTube’s voice recognition software automatically

  • connects the written words to the spoken. Once theyre ready your new closed captions

  • will be automatically published. You can then go in and edit them if the timing is a little off!

  • This option is a great timesaver!

  • Create new subtitles or CC’. This option is a little more labour intensive but it’s

  • great for vlogs or other free flowing formats. YouTube will give you auto generated timing

  • blocks where it recognises there is speech- although you can turn this option off.

  • Type your content into each box and if you need to adjust when the caption starts and ends

  • then you can do so by dragging the borders under the video. A great thing about this

  • option is that if you don’t have time to finish the whole video your changes will be

  • saved as a draft and you can pick it up again later. When youre done, select publish.

  • No matter which option you choose, please remember to include not just spoken audio

  • but also sound cues such as [music] or [crowd noise] or [wind blows portentously]

  • Anything to help your hard of hearing viewers or those watching in a library with the sound off when

  • they should be doing something else.

  • If making your own captions all sounds like too much work however there is another option

  • Community Captions

  • Community contributions allow one or more of your viewers to create closed captions

  • of your videos and also provide translations. These are then submitted to you to be checked

  • by the community or you can do it yourself. You can edit these drafts so if they get

  • get a few words wrong here and there or spell a name incorrectly it’s a really easy fix.

  • This is the way that I caption most of my videos.

  • Aside from videos that are very pre-planned and have a script

  • I would struggle to caption my own videos.

  • Before your community can submit titles, descriptions, closed captions, or subtitles, you need to

  • turn it on for selected videos or make it the default setting for all videos on your

  • channel. To turn community contributions on with one click you can follow these steps:

  • Go to your creator studio Selecttranslations and transcriptions

  • in the sidebar Click the settings wheel and selectturn

  • on for all videos

  • There is also the ability to turn contributions on for specific videos:

  • Next toeditclick the drop down menu

  • and selectinfo & settingsUnder the video clickadvanced settings

  • and then scroll down to where you can selectAllow viewers to contribute translated

  • titles, descriptions and subtitles/CCClicksave changesand youre done!

  • Once you have same-language captions on the video, your audience can submit translations

  • to help you reach a global audience. After the viewer has submitted their transcription

  • or translation YouTube will moderate it for spam or inappropriate content-

  • Although that doesn’t always work: I was once desperately trying to watch a news clip

  • the day after a big event and in the only one that had captionssomeone had replaced

  • every noun with the wordmeow’! Hilarious. But not helpful.

  • Once it has passed YouTube’s checks you can manage it by reviewing, editing, publishing,

  • flagging, or rejecting it. You could also allow your community to review the content,

  • and it'll automatically be published when it gets enough reviews.

  • Then we come to... Automatic Captions

  • YouTube’s automatic captions in the past weren’t the best and we have to thank activists

  • like Rikki Poynter for her #NoMoreCRAPtions campaign that motivated the platform to improve.

  • Indeed in the last year autocaptions have definitely improved and YouTube are slowly

  • rolling out a new feature that will allow captions for livestreams in English on certain

  • channels with over 10,000 subscribers.

  • It may not be available right now, maybe!

  • Depending on when youre watching this video!

  • It’s easy to help the autocaptions to improve though, all you have to do is edit them!

  • Automatic captions are available in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish,

  • Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Japanese.

  • If automatic captions are available, they'll automatically be published on the video.

  • Processing time depends on the complexity of the video's audio though so they might not be available

  • for 24 hours after youve uploaded. You can then review them and check there are

  • no silly mistakes that make you say something awful.

  • Go to your Video Manager Next to the video you want to add captions

  • or subtitles to, click the drop-down menu next to the Edit button.

  • Select Subtitles and CC. If automatic captions are available, you'll

  • see Language (Automatic) in the 'Published' section to the right of the video.

  • Review automatic captions and use the edit or remove any parts that haven't been properly transcribed

  • Yes, it's really that easy!

  • Currently people watch video with automatic captions more than 15 million times per day

  • and the number of videos with them is an astonishing 1 billion.

  • Don’t let your videos be left behind!

  • Caption them!

  • Or watch more of my videos about captions and allow me to sell them to you like a cheesy

  • 1950s TV Commercial.

  • If youre left with more questions about how to do captions right, particularly the

  • ins and outs of captioning best practice and rules and so on

  • then watch the next video in this series to find out more

  • Down there

  • And subscribe for more videos with captions

  • and me!

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如何在YouTube上給你的視頻加字幕[CC] (How To Caption Your Videos On YouTube [CC])

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    林宜悉 posted on 2021/01/14
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