Speaker 1: One way to get more people watching your videos is to closed caption or subtitle them. And if you're watching this video when I first released it in February of 2020, Rev.com has a great deal going on right now. It's still $1 a minute. It's about to go up to $1.25. So if you're watching this in February, run out there. I've got a coupon code below, and you can use that to start getting your videos closed captioned before the price goes up. I'll go right into how to do this now, and then I'm going to come back at the end, tell you why you want to do it, and also talk a little bit about where I am, which is Venice Beach, California. So I'm going to assume that you've already uploaded your videos to YouTube, and I'm going to go directly to Rev.com, and I'm going to choose the English captions. Now I'm currently logged in, and you'll probably want to create an account here so that you can keep track of all the different things you'll be captioning. But the first thing you'll do is go to Closed Captions and Get Started. There's also a number of other options here, like you could have machine transcribing or foreign subtitles. There's quite a number of options here, but really I'm just going to be covering captions. So you can go down here and pull videos directly from your account. And this is what's the best part of this. If you don't want to connect to your accounts, you can upload your MOV or your MP3, MP4 files directly to Rev. It takes a little longer. Or if it's already a public video, you can paste a link in, and it will work off of that. But the really powerful part is being able to have it look into your YouTube account, and also to return these subtitles or the captions directly to that video. So once you've uploaded it, you're done. It does everything else for you. So let's go into, click on YouTube here, and you'll see all the different channels that I'm working on right now. And the first thing you need to do is add another channel. You have to add your account. So I'll show you what that looks like. I'm going to go in here and choose my account, and then find the account that I will be adding, connecting to Rev. And you'll see here it's going to ask for your permission. And now it's looking into that account, and you can see the different videos that are in that account. The ones that are private, it cannot caption private videos, so they're just kind of grayed out here. They have to be unlisted or public. But all you need to do is check off the ones that you want to caption. I'm just going to pick a few here. And also, you can check this, only show videos without a caption file. This channel doesn't have any...actually, it does. It has some captioned, already closed captioned videos. So if you check that box, you'll see the ones that have the closed caption disappear. Otherwise, they've got that little CC in the bottom corner letting you know that they've already been captioned. And that doesn't mean the automatic captioning through YouTube. This is the manual captioning that that's checking for. So we'll add the selected to the cart. And you can see here the different minutes for each one of these. Typically, for me, I closed caption anything that's under 10 minutes or so. If it's over 10 minutes, I think a little bit deeper about whether or not that video needs closed caption just because the price is going up with every extra minute. So there is an option to rush your order so that it can be done faster. I believe they guarantee it's done within 24 hours. Usually for these short videos of, you know, 1 to 10 minutes, it's usually done in just a couple of hours. So I usually don't have a rush. If you want to add foreign language subtitles, this is great because you can choose your foreign language. And then what happens, let's say we hit click Spanish, you'll see here that all the English captions become free. So they have to close caption into English first and then into Spanish. So really all of that becomes free if you're adding a foreign language. So something to think about. You'd want to do those at the same time, not later or else you'll be paying for both English and the other language. So let me uncheck that. It allows you to choose your output format. You really don't have to do anything here. This will choose things automatically. But you do want to check this box to automatically deliver files back to YouTube. And this is that great feature where it will do everything for you once you select your videos done within 24 hours, the captions will be live on your YouTube channel or your Vimeo channel. There's a number of other options for companies that this works with. You can go in here and have a reference name if you have clients that you're billing or something like that. That is an option. But all you need to do then is click checkout and I'm not going to actually caption these, but it'll ask you for a payment method on the next screen and you'll go through and that's it. So it's a wonderful, wonderful system and it's great to have these captions. I'll tell you more about why you'll want them coming up. So why would you want to close caption your videos? So there's really four reasons to do this. First one is kind of the obvious one and that's people who are hard of hearing. The only way they can really hear what you're saying is to read it. So that's the first group. The second group is people who can't turn your sound on. So maybe they're at work or they're somewhere that they need their phone to be quiet. They don't have their earbuds. So that's group number two. Group number three is people who don't speak your language as their first language. So maybe they speak it as their second language and they can understand it if they can read it. I know that I speak very fast. So sometimes it's easier for them to just read the subtitles below. And the final reason to do subtitles is for Google. If you do those manual subtitles, that's going to give Google a lot more confidence about what you're talking about in your video. So doing them manually gives you an SEO boost. They will do it automatically, but it's still, they're not counting it as much because they're not quite as confident about their translation as if it's done with somewhere like Rev. So where I am right now is Venice Beach, California, right outside LA. And I lived here for a month a couple of years ago. And I love this place. But most people think of Venice Beach as kind of muscle beach and, you know, kind of the gritty part over on the actual beach front. And it's not all that. The original reason, a guy named Abbott Kinney, there's a road named after him nearby. He built these canals. So you can see here, this is a great community and this is kind of getting down to one of my key things is pedestrian friendliness. That's not something I would really talk about on this channel, but I love areas where you can walk. And in Venice, the canals are a great opportunity to just walk around the community and kind of meet your neighbors. And you can see everything is fronting on these canals. And I think they drain out into the ocean, but maybe not quite. So I just wanted to let you know where I am right now. And normally at this time of year, I'm in San Diego, but I'm up here for a quick job that I need to do tomorrow. But I want you to check into other videos that I've got. So check out here or here, and I'll see you in the next video.