Speaker 1: Adding accurate subtitles to your videos can help make your content more engaging, it can help audiences retain more information, and it makes the content more accessible for people who may be deaf or hard of hearing. Now until recently it was actually quite difficult to make accurate subtitles, but in this video I'll show you how to make accurate, editable subtitles using YouTube. Now this video is a little bit long, so check in the description for our different timestamps to jump to different parts of the video or if you need to revisit anything. Let's hop in. Let's start with auto captions. First log into your Google account and navigate to YouTube Studio. You can find it in the top right corner of your YouTube window. Then upload the video to YouTube that you wish to caption. I've already uploaded my video, which you can see here in the content section of my YouTube Studio. On the left side of YouTube Studio, click on Subtitles. Here you'll see a full list of your videos. Click on the arrow icon underneath Languages. You should see an entry that's titled with the video's language followed by Automatic. If you don't see this, it means that YouTube has not finished generating auto captions. Come back to this page after an hour or so and you should see this option. Auto captions are a nice feature, but they are often crude and incorrect, and have an especially hard time with the spelling of proper nouns. We'll want to edit these auto captions to be correct. Next to the auto generated captions, click on Duplicate and Edit. A new page will pop up with YouTube's attempt to auto caption the file. As you can see, there's no capitalization or punctuation, and there are some incorrect subtitles as well. But this is a great starting point instead of having to manually type the entire set of subtitles. And it does an excellent job at timing them correctly, as you can see here.

Speaker 2: It's been an amazing experience with the Lightboard, so I'm super... and it's integral to how I've delivered this material, so I... That does a pretty good job.

Speaker 1: You can use this page here to edit and correct the subtitles. I'm going to go ahead and make those edits now and come back after I've finished. And there we go. I've finished editing. You can now preview your subtitles by playing back the clip.

Speaker 2: It's been an amazing experience with the Lightboard, so I'm super... and it's integral to how I've delivered this material, so I...

Speaker 1: If the timing is off for any of them, you can click and drag on the in and out points in the timeline in this dialog box, or you can go to edit timings and change any of the timings by timecode. Once we're happy with the captions, hit publish. If YouTube is your final and only distribution platform, you're finished. Your YouTube video now has your subtitles as the default subtitles. Now for a moment, I'm going to head back just one step and show you a very powerful and somewhat hidden feature within YouTube Studio that'll allow you to download your subtitles and then re-upload them to other sites. So if we go back to the subtitle section of our channel, going to the subtitles that we just generated, to the right of this edit button, if we click on these three dots for an options menu, you'll see download, and you can download as a .srt file. This file is the most commonly used subtitle file across multiple social media platforms such as Vimeo and Facebook. And now when you upload your video to those different channels or those different social media platforms, you can then add this srt file, these subtitle files, and not have to regenerate them like we did with YouTube.