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CLOSED CAPTIONING ON YOUTUBE HOW TO
CLOSED CAPTIONING ON YOUTUBE FOR MAC

Their platform is easy to use and their pricing is simple. I’ve tried a ton of transcription services and the one I’ve settled on is Rev.com.

CLOSED CAPTIONING ON YOUTUBE FOR MAC

Learn more about ScreenFlow for Mac here. This is necessary because of how I perform the transcription in the next step. It’s simple to use for both recording your screen and on-camera style videos but also has a ton of great editing and video publishing features, including uploading directly to your YouTube account.Īfter I create and edit my video, I use the ScreenFlow export feature to download the video to my computer. There are as many video tools as there are blogging platforms (or probably more), but my tool of choice is ScreenFlow for Mac.

Upload the video and transcription to YouTube (and let YouTube automatically add your captions).

Receive the transcription and move it from a Word doc to a plain text file.

Get your video transcribed (I’ll show you exactly how I get this done for $1 per minute).

This is the best use of my available blogging time and although this process costs me a few dollars, it’s much less time and cost if I had tried to add them myself. There are a few options for adding captions and after doing some testing, I’ve settled on the following steps.

CLOSED CAPTIONING ON YOUTUBE HOW TO

How to add captions to your videos automatically By including captions on your videos, you are making them available to wider audiences. More viewers = more engagement, shares, and hopefully more followers to your business.Īdding captions also allows your video and it’s content to get indexed better by search engines, increasing your organic search reach. Captions are useful to deaf or hard of hearing viewers. Sidenote: If you want to watch that video, you can see it on this post – How to Easily Add Internal Links to your Blog Posts Why you should add captions to your videos You can see captions in action on this screenshot of one of my videos below and learn more about captions from the YouTube documentation here.

What is closed captioning on YouTube?Ĭlosed captioning (or captions) are simply written text overlaid on the video as it plays. But first, let’s talk about why I do this and why you should too.

In this post I’ll show you exactly how I add closed captioning to my YouTube videos.