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So, you’ve created a video and want to share it with the world? Before you upload your video, you should think about creating your subtitles and closed captions to appear alongside it. Luckily, YouTube helps creators to add their own captions or subtitles to their content. Closed captions help more people engage with your content and help to ensure that your content is easily searchable.
In this article, you’ll learn how to write your own closed captions for YouTube videos and which software can help to make the process easy.
If you want to write your own captions from scratch, this can be easily done in a standard text editor such as Microsoft Word or in the Notepad app. Here’s how:
1 00:00:14,000 –> 00:00:20,500 Meet Amber, our sophisticated AI transcribing assistant. 2 00:00:21,000 –> 00:00:27,500 She’s pretty clever and knows a lot about how people talk. 3 00:00:27,800 –> 00:00:31,250 Because speech comes in many different waves and shapes called waveforms.
1
00:00:14,000 –> 00:00:20,500
Meet Amber, our sophisticated AI transcribing assistant.
2
00:00:21,000 –> 00:00:27,500
She’s pretty clever and knows a lot about how people talk.
3
00:00:27,800 –> 00:00:31,250
Because speech comes in many different waves and shapes called waveforms.
8. Once your file is complete and you’re happy, export the file as a .TXT file.
9. You will then need to convert the .TXT file as an SRT file so that you can burn the captions into your video or upload it alongside your video when adding it to YouTube. A TXT to SRT converter can do this automatically for you.
10. Upload your SRT file to your YouTube video.
Writing your own captions for YouTube videos can take a lot of time. For every minute of audio it can take up to 10 minutes to transcribe and time stamp correctly. Writing your own captions should only be done if you are on a tight budget, have a lot of spare time, and have only short videos.
Luckily, there is technology out there that can help speed up the process for you!
With Ambercript, you can easily convert YouTube videos into text automatically and cut out a lot of the manual time of doing it from scratch.
Amberscript uses automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology to analyze your video and transform it into text,
As you see, the automatic process is a lot easier than creating YouTube captions yourself from scratch!
What’s even better, Amberscript also offers a professional service that takes the process completely out of your hands while ensuring 100% accurate subtitles!
After uploading your video to Amberscript or from the editor directly, you can choose to have our team of professional captioners edit the file for you. The team work to a four-eye principle, which means that the file is proofread and quality checked before being sent back to you.
Our Human-made service takes a little longer, usually around 3-5 business days depending on how much content you have. But you can rest assured that your captions are 100% accurate.
We create the highest-quality captions on the market, for platforms such as Netflix and Disney+. We always ensure that viewers get the best experience, so we work with professional captioners and we’re constantly updating our automatic speech recognition engine to create accurate text. in 39 languages!
Writing YouTube captions from scratch can be boring, frustrating, and time-consuming. We aim to improve this experience by developing an intuitive editor to create your subtitles or manage the whole process for you with our team of professional captioners.
Sometimes content can’t wait! With Amberscript you can create YouTube captions in minutes, or within a few days if you need top-notch quality or translated subtitles.
What are you waiting for? Check out how easy it is to write YouTube captions with our free trial.
Our software allows you to export the transcript from the video or audio file as an SRT, EBU-STL or VTT file.
To order translated subtitles, you can upload your file like you would normally do. You can then select manual subtitling. Once you have selected this, an option will appear where you will be able to select the language the subtitles need to be translated to. If the language that you want is not one of the options you can contact us through our contact form.
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That needs to be done using a video editor like VLC. Go to Tools > Preferences [CTRL + P]. Under Show settings, select the option that says All to switch to the advanced preferences. Navigate to Input/Codecs > Subtitle codecs > Subtitles. Under Text subtitle decoder set, the Subtitle justification to left, right or center.
To add subtitles to your Youtube video, simply add the file you have created using Amberscript to your video in the Youtube Studio. Click on “subtitles”, then “add” and finally “upload file” and select the SRT file.
Once your file is ready and available in your account, you can simply click on the file name and then select the “export file” button at the top left of the page. You can then select the file format, style of sutitles (between BBC and Netflix) and alignment. Please note that you can only export a file if you have validated your email address when creating an account.
You can generate subtitles automatically using Amberscript. Our software allows you to convert your video file to text and then export the transcripts as SRT, EBU-STL or VTT files, which can easily be inserted into a video-editor.