Adding subtitles and captions to your videos on YouTube can greatly influence their ranking in search engines. It’s one of the best search engine optimizations you can do to increase viewership, gain an audience, and give your videos more exposure. Plus, when you have transcription files in multiple languages, it causes YouTube to feature and highlight your videos in even more spaces in other countries. But the reason most of us probably don’t create transcripts of our videos and convert them into caption and subtitle files is because it sounds time consuming, difficult, and we don’t know how to do it in the first place. Thanks to a tool called, CaptionTube, it’s now easier than ever to create subtitles for your videos. In this video I give you a tutorial on how to use CaptionTube and create captions for your YouTube videos. captiontube.appspot.com SUBSCRIBE FOR OTHER VIDEO TIPS AND NEWS! www.youtube.com Creator’s Tip is a weekly show that helps online video producers with tips, tricks, advice, secrets, and suggestions for how to make their videos stand out on the web. LET’S CONNECT! www.facebook.com twitter.com www.reelseo.com
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funny how this only has 951 views?
thank u that was really bvery helpful, God bless u and guide u for the? right path of faith
Tim, Maybe this is a cool tool for some, but I think the way “YouTube does the typing” is cooler aka Less Work.
Look at how to do that by doing a YouTube search for
“YouTube Subtitles – YouTube Captions How to Video”
– click the “Dog” thumbnail…
You can jump to 1:43 in? that video overview to see the basic steps. (don’t worry, what you need is free… I offer a very detailed (13 min) step-by-step video for rent, and this basic one is a teaser for that) – Watch this teaser to get started.
@VideoLeadsOnline Ahh gotcha. That makes sense. Thanks? for the clarification.
There? seems to be some confusion on the difference between “Transcript” and “Caption” files. When using the “Captions” area of YouTube, you can upload either one.
According to YouTube the main difference is that a “Caption” file contains the Time Codes in it. The “Transcript” file is text you upload and in essence YouTube tries adding in the time codes for you. Then you can use it, or download it (if you like), edit any issues/wrong words etc. and Re-Upload it again, but as a “Caption” file.
@carmensognonvi I agree, that? is how I’ve done it for a while now and it seems easier than what Tim was showing here… I was bummed when I saw all the work needed here. Was hoping this was a better tool than what YouTube offered, but I think it is not any better… in fact would likely take more time.
I made video tips on how to use the YouTube tool a while ago on my Channel, if anyone cares.
@reelseo Is there an SEO difference if you upload a Transcript file vs. a Captions file?? Thanks!
@reelseo I just noticed that the transcript only gives you 2 non-English options: Japanese and Korean. Maybe because it’s still in beta? Anyway, I’m in the process of adding Japanese and Korean transcripts (thanks Google Translate!) to one video as an experiment to see if it bumps up the views? at all.
@carmensognonvi YUP, that’s by fair the easiest.. That’s what we do. I guess? we better upload ours soon
Oops, sorry for the double-post. Just wanted to add one thing: I hadn’t thought of the benefits of translating the? transcript into different languages, but I will definitely give that a shot and see what the results are like!
@reelseo Hey Tim and Dean, I usually just upload a transcript file and it syncs up perfectly with the video. Unless I’m missing something, it seems like a much easier way to do it? and it has the same results even without the time codes.
@reelseo Yes. It works nicely. After I did English and used Google Translate to translate my tutorials into Chinese, French and Spanish. I’ve done 2 so far.? I know translators aren’t perfect but perhaps that’s better than nothing?
Great tips here! Keep it up!?
@reelseo By transcript, I just? mean copying and pasting written text into the description field. Sorry if I’m not making sense
@MichaelWarbux I have a channel where I upload videos that normally get about 70 views or so within the first couple days. I gave the captions a try and that video easily got over 1,000 views? within the same time period. Then I asked a friend to translate my caption file into Spanish and soon after I uploaded it, it got about 3,000 more. I say it’s worth it.
Try it once or twice yourself and see what you think, though.
@onyxbeauty1988 Great! Work? well for ya?
@thewelshlink? Hmm… I wasn’t aware that the two are different. Whenever I use CaptionTube to create captions, the “interactive transcript” automatically shows up shortly thereafter.
This is a GREAT tool, but still pretty time consuming. How much of a difference is this? really going to impact the SEO of your video? Is the time and effort worth the final result?
This? was great! I already tried it.
Nice one Tim,? really useful tip. Does captioning therefore (as far as the algorithm is concerned) outperform the transcript method then?
- Dean
Glad to see there’s an easy way to do this? and have it automatically connect with YouTube. I think subtitles are very important because the reach of people engaging content on the web is growing so much that one language isn’t enough to speak on global concepts and ideas.
Good tip.? It is about time someone did an updated video on this.
@angandnap Oh, that’s easy. Just take a screenshot of the? comment on your computer. If you’re not sure how to take a screenshot, just google “screenshot windows” or “screenshot mac” depending on what platform you’re using. Screenshots are built into Mac, so it’s super easy.
Thanks…that’s new to me. I would love to know..when people copy the comment from YouTube or Twitter etc. And the put the picture/clip or copy of the comment on their video. Like for? a question or comment video.nt
@AidanCraftHD You are? the king of firstness! haha