DIY Captioning
Why caption video?
- Required for accessibility for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- For anyone in noisy situations, when the audio quality is poor, or where noise isn't allowed
- Make your video text searchable by search engines
- Increase comprehension, especially for people with English as a second language
How to caption video
Upload the video to YouTube
The video has to be in your YouTube.
If it's not your video, see download video. Be aware of copyright issues!
Download the automatic captions
Thanks to Market Duru, which has an instructional video at http://www.internetmarketingduru.com/leveraging-youtube-seo-time-coded-transcriptions-and-closed-captioning/
- In your YouTube, choose Video Manager.
- In the Edit pulldown menu, choose Captions.
- Click on English machine transcription, then Download. The name of the file will be captions.svb.
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Edit the captions
- Open the captions.sbv file in Notepad.
- Remove the timestamps and correct the captions. Put linebreaks so that there are no more than about 10 words per line.
Get the correct timestamps
Go to accessify.com http://accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessibility-tools/easy-youtube-caption-creator/
- Paste in the URL of your YouTube video.
- Paste in the edited captions in your captions.svb file.
- Click Play to start the video, and click Add timestamps by clicking a when you hear each line.
- When you’re done, you’ll see your captions file with timestamps added.
Upload your corrected captions to the video
- Copy and paste into a Notepad file.
- Save it as a .sub file (not caption.sub.txt).
- Go back to your video in YouTube and choose Add new captions.
- Upload your corrected captions file.
- Disable the automatic captions by clicking the green button next to English so that it is no longer green and highlighted. Make sure the button next to your captions is green and highlighted.
- Enjoy your video with captions!