- How do you add closed captions to your videos?
That's what we're going to be talking about in this video.
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Hey, this is Leslie Samuel here from becomeablogger.com
where we're changing the world one blog at a time.
Let's talk about closed captions.
First of all, what are they?
You know, here's an example.
I'm looking at this video that I just uploaded today
and you can see not only can you watch the video
but you can see the kind of like the transcript
of the video right at the bottom of the video.
Now this comes in very handy for a number of reasons.
One of the reasons is the fact that some of the people
that are watching your stuff may be international
and maybe they don't get your accent,
or whatever the case might be.
Sometimes you speak a little fast and that's hard to follow.
At least, that's for me, maybe not you. (laughs)
It's nice to have that text there
that they can read as closed captions.
But in addition to that, on Facebook when someone first sees
your video, oftentimes there's no audio
that goes along with it.
They have to actually turn on the audio in order to get it.
Well, having those closed captions there can be a good way
of giving them an idea of what it's about
and enticing them to click through
to actually watch the video.
It's just a win-win situation for everyone involved.
But the question is, how do you do it?
Now there are a number of ways to do it.
You can do it manually, or you can
have someone do it for you.
And I'm going to show you what I've done and how I do it,
the different ways that I've done it.
So I want to show you really quick how you go
about adding closed caption to a video.
So I'm going to come out of this video right now.
And I'm going to look for a video
that doesn't have closed caption on it.
And I know this video with my son doesn't.
So I'm going to click on Edit.
And before I actually move on,
if it's a video like this video here,
you'll notice I don't have the ability to edit that video.
That's because I was just tagged in this video.
I did not upload this video.
So I'm going to go to this one that I uploaded
and click on Edit this video.
And when I do that I have a number of different options.
The one that I'm looking for is to upload an SRT file.
That is a specific file type that is for closed captions.
Now what you'll notice here is that it tells you,
it gives you some instructions for the format of this file.
It needs to be the filename.en, if it's English,
_US in caps, if it's US English, .srt.
So when you are naming the file that you are uploading
it has to be in this format.
The first time I uploaded a file it just had the file name
and it told me there was an error,
and I couldn't figure it out until I read
and saw that it had to be named this particular way.
So if I wanted to upload a file
I would choose the file here.
And here we see, this one is called Hanging_Final.en_US.srt.
And I would upload that file.
I'm not going to do that right now
because that's not the actual file
that goes along with this video.
But I wanted to show you that really quick.
Now let me show it to you on YouTube.
I'm going to come over here to YouTube
and I am looking at a video here that I'm editing.
So once you go into the Video Manager
you go to edit that video.
And you will see there is
a subtitles/closed caption field.
So I'm going to go ahead and click on that.
And you can see I can add new subtitles.
I'm going to click on that and select English.
Or you can search for one of the other languages.
And you will notice here, I'm going to pause that,
that you have a number of options.
You can upload a file.
You can transcribe it yourself and auto-sync it.
You can create new subtitles.
You can buy subtitles and have basically someone do it.
It's a little more expensive this route
than the ways that I'm going to show you.
But the one that I'm looking for is Upload a file.
I'm going to click and upload that file.
It's a subtitle file.
And then I can go ahead and choose the file
and choose that SRT.
Now, it doesn't matter how you name this file for YouTube.
It matters for Facebook.
That is why I recommend you get it named for Facebook
and that is the SRT file that you're going to use,
whether you're using it on Facebook,
YouTube, or some other platform.
Okay, so I'm going to cancel this out right now
and talk about how I get my stuff transcribed.
There are two ways, and I've tried them both.
I'm going to start with the most affordable one,
which is trint.com.
Trint.com is really cool because it basically uses software
to transcribe your stuff for you,
but it's extremely accurate.
It's the most accurate one that I've found.
I've tried the Facebook auto-transcription
and YouTube auto-transcription,
and they just don't get my voice, my accent, or something,
because it makes it look like I'm saying
some really ridiculous stuff.
Trint does a good job.
But let me show you something about Trint.
Here's a transcript that it did for me.
Once you upload a video it takes a minute or two
and then it gives you the transcript,
depending on the length of the video.
Mine are relatively short videos,
so it happens relatively quickly.
Then you will see that it will have
the transcript here and I can play.
I was born and raised on the beautiful--
And as I'm talking it is going through the transcript
so I can see exactly where it is.
If I want to jump to a point because I see there's
an error here, I can just quickly click here and play it.
In a classroom or in a lab.
And it will play from that point
and I can say, you know what?
It's not a lab, it's a laboratory,
or whatever the case might be.
So you can edit it right here as you're kind of
going through and it makes it relatively easy,
and you can export that file, the entire document
as a SubRip format, that's the SRT.
Or you can do it as a Word document, a VTT format,
or an interactive transcript.
I don't use any of those, but I would go
with the SubRip format for the purpose
of what we're doing right now.
One other thing to mention.
Here the price is $12 an hour.
So if I uploading a five minute video,
that's going to cost me about $1
to get the transcript for that specific video.
I think that's pretty affordable.
If I'm doing a five minute video everyday for 30 days,
that's just 30 bucks for 30 transcripts.
I think that's pretty cool.
Okay, so that is option number one.
Option number two is Rev.com.
Now I prefer Rev.com,
and I've starting using this exclusively.
It's a little more expensive.
It's $1 a minute, so a $5 video
is going to cost me five bucks.
But they are very accurate.
I don't even look over the transcripts anymore
once they're done by Rev.com
because I know that it's pretty close to accurate,
if not 100% accurate.
Sometimes I've seen a little error here and there,
but they do a pretty good job
because they actually have human beings
that are doing it for you.
The machines haven't taken over yet, not completely.
But they will.
When I sign in here to Rev.com,
I'm going to go ahead and log in.
Once I've logged in I can place a new order.
I can say I want some subtitles or captions.
You know, you can call them whatever you want.
It's just you will tell them in the end
what format you want.
So here you can see you can
upload the files from your computer.
You can share a link to a public video.
Or you can get it directly from your YouTube
or Vimeo account and have them
do that entire process for you,
transcribe it and then add it to the video.
I generally upload my files
so that I can get the SRT file downloaded.
And when I'm ready to post the video,
then I post it and upload that SRT file.
So that's pretty much it.
That's how I do it.
That's how I get my closed captions added to my video.
It's a relatively straightforward process.
If you're making one video a week
and that video is five minutes long,
or even 10 minutes long, you know,
you're spending about 5 to 10 bucks a week
to get these done by actual human beings.
You really can't beat that.
Or if you want to go more affordable,
go with Trint.com and you're paying significantly less.
So that's it.
This is the end of the video.
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