7 Ways to Caption Your Videos

7 ways to caption your videos!!

In no particular order.

1) Writing down your captions on a piece of
paper and holding it up.

Not the quickest solution.

But you can be creative!

2) Alternatively you can also scan these papers
and then put them in when you're editing.

3) Or you can add the captions when you are
editing the video as text. Again you can use

whatever font/color you that you like.

4) you can write a text file where you write
from what time to what time you say what thing,

and then you do that for every line or every
text that you want.

That's a terrible, terrible idea though

It takes so much time! I've
tried this before and it takes hours. By far,

I would say, the slowest way to do this! And...

No.

5) Or you can write a script for the video
and then copy paste that into this little

box and then YouTube will let you time it
so that it appears at the right time. Or if

you don't have a script you can watch the
video and then type the captions at the same

time and then time it later. A good thing
with writing a script though is that your

"text program" whatever it is that you're
using, is probably better at spelling than

your browser or your editing software.

6) Or you can watch the video and type in
the captions as you're watching it.

YouTube has this feature that says "pause while typing"
But that doesn't work in my experience.

This could be brilliant but it's not really. Instead
YouTube just plays the video whenever it wants.

And that makes me very stressed and I feel
like I have to type super fast. So maybe not

for the best thing for me at least.

[sidenote] OK. The "pause while typing button" has never worked for me before.

Until today when I'm making this video and trying to show you what it looks like.

I don't know if YouTube has fixed this since I last uploaded a video, which would be great news!

Or it's just messing with me and it'll go back to not working again as soon as I'm done uploading this.

7) And now the last one, the one that I prefer.

But is not the best one, definitely not. And not the one I should be using.

Automatic captions.

"But automatic captions don't work!"

I know.

But you can edit them!!
And the good thing with is that they're already timed.

It might not be super accurate and
have the right words. But at least it has

them in the right place and you don't have
to stretch and drag that little thing. And

like change, this word should have been over
here instead, and it's a silent bit and there

shouldn't be any words here. It understands
that fairly well and it makes it a little bit easier.

Also this encourages me to speak more slowly

and clearly. So maybe it'll get all the words
right and the timing will be better.

However this doesn't always pause when you're writing
and it doesn't have the best spellchecker.

And also YouTube doesn't always provide automatic
captions. It is supposed to do if you're speaking English.

But idk, for some reason it doesn't
always work. And then this feature doesn't work at all

and then you have to write it all yourself

and then again back to super frustrating when I'm typing and it plays anyway.

Yeah, no. Not recommended.

SO IN CONCLUSION. I would advise myself to
do number five on this list.

Which is writing a sprint and then copy paste that, and timing it.

Probably not going to listen to that though

and just keep on fighting the struggle with
automatic captions, because

I'm stubborn and that seems like it should be easier, but it's not.

And also I don't have scripts for all my videos.

I have for this one though because
otherwise I couldn't have done these ones.

And if you want to listen to someone explain further WHY you should have captions on your videos,

because you should,

you can watch Rikki's video.

I'll put a link to that in the description.

Also subscribe to her because
she's really cool, and her tumblr!

But yeah let me know how you caption your
videos. Is it one of the things I listed in this?

If it's something else, do please let
me know.

Maybe it's even easier then my none-easy ways of doing it.

Or just which way do you
think sound the easiest.

Let me know and have a nice life!

Goodbye.