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YouTube Captions and Subtitles: A Complete strategy

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YouTube Captions and Subtitles: A Complete strategy

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  1. YouTube Captions & Subtitles: A Complete Guide for 2021

  2. In 2009, Google declared that the company was enabling automatic captioning capability to videos on YouTube. Before this crucial step was taken, YouTubers could only upload their own captions manually. This innovative structure enabled captions to be automated produced by artificial intelligence. Google also made few enhancements to the self-captioning facilities to make it improved. It started helping users to upload a script of the video with automated software that would match the text of the script to the applicable audio segments.  Now don’t get confused between Captions and subtitles, we have comprehended this one for you.

  3. What are subtitles and captions? Subtitles are defined as "transcription, transformation or translation of the YouTube audio segment when sound is available but not understood" by the target viewer. On the other hand, captions as "transcription or translation of the dialogue, sound effects, pertinent musical indications, and other relevant audio information when sound is absent or not clearly audible". Before, diving in, how to add closed captioning to a YouTube video let us know a little more about captions.

  4. Different types of captions • Open captions- They are the fixed transcription embedded within the video that can’t be removed and which always are in view and cannot be turned off. • Closed captions- As their name itself, closed captions can be turned on or off by the viewer.

  5. Why captions are important in YouTube? To get more views- Captions increase the reach of your videos to get discovered by the target audience by giving them increased rankings in search pages. The algorithm gives more preference to videos that are more informative and lifts them on the search results page. To get higher search rankings- When YT translates caption as the metadata of your videos, your videos get easily discovered in both the search engines YouTube and Google. Help your content reach a wider target audience- Closed captions play an imperative role in providing an equivalent understanding to viewers who cannot hear the sound, hence add captions that are accurate, legible, and synchronized with your video. Many creators also choose to buy legit YouTube subscribersto gain a wider audience. Now if you are wondering,how to add auto generated subtitles in YouTube.We will make things much easier for you!

  6. How to add closed captioning to a YouTube video Step 1- Select the camera icon at the right top corner of the YouTube webpage and click on Upload Video. Step 2- In your listing preferences, you get three options – public, unlisted and private. Step 3- You have to upload your videos on YouTube as private or unlisted until captions and subtitles are added. Step 4- After uploading your video, YouTube automatically adds it to YouTube’s transcription wait list. Then YT will automatically generate captions, for your content. Step 5- Now, head to YT studio and click Transcriptions. Step 6- Select the video to which you want to add the caption and language for your caption too.

  7. Step 7- Now to access and edit the closed captions, click on the Subtitles section. Then hit the 3 vertical dots. Step 8- Select “Edit on Classic Studio”. It will forward your content to another page. Then choose to edit or unpublished the captions. Step 9- Edit your subtitles inside YouTube or download it and edit in Text Edit on Mac as most users prefer to edit outside YouTube. Step 10- Open text editor, and start your editing. You must change or delete the timestamp, except if you are proposing to fix out-of-sync captions. Step 11- Now save and upload the file back to YouTube. On the page where you downloaded your captions, find the Actions tab and select Upload File, then choose the edited transcription file, hit Upload.

  8. How to add closed captions with a transcript? Step 1- Open your YouTube account and head to YouTube Studio. Then, click on the Videos tab. Step 2- Select the video to which you want to include captions. Step 3- Select the Subtitles/CC Step 4- Click ADD LANGUAGE and select your language. Here, select, the video language you prefer. You can either upload your video transcription file made by software that provides a better transcription accuracy compared to the auto-generated transcript from YouTube, transcribe your video manually on YT or let it create new subtitles or CC for you. Step 5- Then after choosing a method, makes changes and click Save. Voila! You just added captions to your video. Then, click on the CC icon in the bottom left corner of the video to inspect to the caption settings while watching your video.

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