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- Note: YouTube needs a few moments to generate these captions.
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<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n - Here, you will be able to edit the captions, including timings, misidentified words, and more.\n
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- See captioning best practices<\/a> for more information on what to edit in the captions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Generating captions from a transcript<\/h3>\n
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- Upload your video to YouTube. If you don’t know how to do this, here is a guide to uploading YouTube videos<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Open YouTube Studio by clicking your profile icon in the top right corner and selecting \u201cYouTube Studio\u201d from the dropdown menu.
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<\/li>\n- Click “Content” in the left-hand menu and then hover over the video to which you want to add subtitles. Click on the left-most \u201cDetails\u201d icon that appears.<\/li>\n
- From this screen, scroll down to \u201cSubtitles\u201d in the column on the right and click on it.<\/li>\n
- Choose the “Auto-sync” option and copy-paste your transcript into the text box.\n
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- YouTube will automatically try to sync the audio with the captions, but this may take a while.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
- When the transcript has been auto-synced, click “Edit Timings” to fix mistakes like timings or awkward sentence breaks and spacing.<\/li>\n
- When finished, press the \u201cdone\u201d button in the top right corner.\n
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- See captioning best practices<\/a> for more information on what to edit in the captions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
<\/a>Captioning best practices<\/h3>\n
When captioning, the goal is to make the captions as easy to follow as possible. To that effect, here are several suggestions of what to keep an eye out for when creating captions, both for auto-generated captions and transcripts:<\/p>\n
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- Fix any misidentified words – for example, a specialized term like CMS might be captioned by YouTube as “see a mess”.<\/li>\n
- Similarly, incorrect homonyms (words that sound the same but have different meanings) should be caught and corrected – for example, “this training makes scents” should be corrected to “this training makes sense.”<\/li>\n
- Use punctuation to convey pauses and breaks, while also staying mindful of the rules of punctuation.<\/li>\n
- There isn’t a clear consensus on how to caption numbers, but a good rule of thumb is to stay consistent and format in whatever way is easiest to understand. For example, 53,412 is much easier to read in a caption than fifty-three-thousand, four hundred and twelve.\n
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- If you want further guidance on when to write out numbers versus using numerals, we recommend these guidelines on captioning numbers from the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Try to break up sentences in the most complete way possible. For example: “The training consists of written modules, as well as a video.” could be a single caption or break between “modules,” and “as well as”. Splitting up the sentence anywhere else would unnecessarily complicate the meaning of the caption.\n
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- A good cue to follow in breaking up captions is where the speaker takes a pause. Speakers generally pause on commas, periods, and other places where it grammatically makes sense to split up a sentence.<\/li>\n
- If you are looking for further guidance on how to break up captions, please see these guidelines on line division from the DCMP<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- More guidelines from the DCMP on creating quality captions can be found here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Video<\/h2>\n
- More guidelines from the DCMP on creating quality captions can be found here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Try to break up sentences in the most complete way possible. For example: “The training consists of written modules, as well as a video.” could be a single caption or break between “modules,” and “as well as”. Splitting up the sentence anywhere else would unnecessarily complicate the meaning of the caption.\n
- If you want further guidance on when to write out numbers versus using numerals, we recommend these guidelines on captioning numbers from the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- See captioning best practices<\/a> for more information on what to edit in the captions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- Open YouTube Studio by clicking your profile icon in the top right corner and selecting \u201cYouTube Studio\u201d from the dropdown menu.
- Upload your video to YouTube. If you don’t know how to do this, here is a guide to uploading YouTube videos<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- See captioning best practices<\/a> for more information on what to edit in the captions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n