Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Alec here with VEED and in this video I'm going to be showing you how to add subtitles to your podcast videos. So let's say you have a podcast, every week you film a video version for your podcast and you want to add subtitles to your podcast. Well in this video I'm going to be showing you how to do exactly that. I'm going to be showing you how you can hard code the subtitles into your actual video so you can post them to platforms such as Instagram, TikTok without needing an SRT file and then I'm actually going to show you how you can download the subtitles as an SRT file to upload them as closed captions for platforms such as YouTube and Facebook. With that being said let's get started. So the tool we're going to be using is called VEED so you can either head over to Google and Google VEED which is V-E-E-D and click on the first link, if not as usual the links are going to be in the description down below. Now once you're on VEED if you don't already have an account you'll be prompted to create a new one for free and if you do already have a new account we're just going to click on the new project button. Once we're in VEED's video editor we want to upload our podcast. Now with VEED you can upload videos anywhere to two hours long so we're going to click on upload video, we're going to browse our documents to find our podcast video. Now here I just have an example video which is 12 seconds long but I understand that most of your podcasts are going to be around an hour long which VEED can still accommodate within its video editor. So just to show you and give you an example let me just click play. Hey everyone I hope you're all doing great, welcome to the social media podcast. As you can see is my example video for the podcast. So I want to create subtitles for this podcast video. Now let's say I already have the video up on YouTube but I just want to create the closed captions file that I can upload to YouTube so I can toggle on and off the closed captions for that specific podcast on YouTube. Well the first steps to do this is actually to click on the subtitles tab on the left and then we're going to click on auto subtitles. We're going to use the auto subtitle tool to automatically transcribe all of the audio from the video into text and turn this text into closed captions. First we have to select the language that we are talking in throughout the video, we are talking in English and then we click on start. Now depending on how long your video actually is this process can take anywhere between a few seconds to a few minutes. I do want to mention real quick that Vee does have its limits so you're not going to be able to subtitle 20 hours of podcast in one go but you can head over to the website links in the description again to find out more. So as we can see now our subtitles have finished generating and we can see them in three different places. First of all we have the subtitles in the subtitle editor, then we have the actual timeline, then we have the actual subtitles that appear on screen. So as you can see if I click throughout we can see the different subtitles. Now because these are closed captions we're not going to worry about the actual styling of them, this doesn't matter just yet. Now the first thing you might notice if I click play from the beginning. As we can see in the beginning I say hey everyone and it doesn't pick up on the hey because I slur the word just a little bit so what I'm going to do is just click to edit and then type and this is what I can do for every single box. If I want to make a change all I have to do is just quickly type just as if it was normal text and all changes are made on the video canvas in real time. So if you see any mistakes if it made a mistake on your name you can go ahead and correct it. Now let's say the timing of your closed caption is off for example at the beginning hey everyone I hope I would want the hey everyone to start a bit sooner. Now what I can do is either place the playhead at the time I would want it to start and click on the beginning stopwatch before for that specific subtitle or I can go ahead and click on the time and just manually input it with my keyboard. For example if I want this one to end sooner again I can go ahead and change the ending time or I can place the playhead on the video canvas and then click on the stopwatch just like so. Now as we can see if I click play. Hey everyone I hope you're all doing great welcome to the social media podcast I'm your host. Perfect now once you're happy with your closed captions to download them as an SRT file it's very simple we're just going to click on the options tab right here and literally all we have to do is click on download.srt file. As we can see now they're downloaded as a zip file and all we have to do is just extract that on our desktop. Now that is how to download the closed captions you can then go and upload that SRT file to YouTube to Facebook to LinkedIn any platform you like that accepts SRT files. However if you want to hard code the subtitles into the actual podcast video that way you can share snippets of it on Instagram without having to worry about the closed captions this way the subtitles will actually be a part of the mp4 file. To do this all we have to do is click on the download button in the top right but first if we don't like the style of how they look right now we need to click on the style tab and change the style. Once we click on the style we have two choices we can either choose one of the presets for an example this is one of my favorites the white with the black drop shadow and then we can also completely customize everything else. For example we can change the font, the font size, the layout, the text style, the letter spacing, line height and drop shadow. We can even change the color of the drop shadow for an example I can change it to pink but we're going to keep it as black for now and then I'm going to make them a little bit smaller and if we play from the beginning. Perfect and now I might lower them just a little bit more and then what you can also do let's say you want to post a snippet of this podcast to Instagram we can actually change this to make it square and as we can see the subtitles adapt to the size and just like so. I have a podcast video with subtitles ready for Instagram or any other social media platform. Then once you are ready all you have to do is click on the download button in the top right and then your podcast video with subtitles will start to render and once it's finished you can then download it. And that is how to add subtitles or closed captions to your podcast videos. If you have any questions please let me know in the comment section down below. If you enjoyed this video and you found it helpful please hit the like button and if you want to see more videos like this please don't forget to hit that subscribe button down there we really appreciate it and with that being said we'll see you in the next video. Thanks for watching.