Speaker 1: If you're wondering how to add captions to videos and create videos like these with subtitles hard-coded in for Instagram, Facebook, or any other platform, then stick around because I'll be stepping you through exactly how to do it and our top recommended apps for Mac, PC, iPhone, and Android. Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video, where we help you grow an audience and scale your revenue with online video. If you're seeing value in this video, make sure you're giving it a thumbs up. It makes a huge difference. And all the links to everything I mentioned in this video, you can find linked in the description box below. Let's jump into it. Now, while it might look simple, it's not as easy as just adding text to videos. In fact, I've seen people spend hours manually adding subtitles word by word to their video. Now, if you're like me, you're way too impatient for that. So the good news is there's much easier options that we're gonna run through now. Now, we uploaded a tutorial like this a little while back and the options now are much better. So this is a complete update with the latest tools to make the job much easier. So I'll start off with the options that take the most amount of work, but are also the cheapest and most accessible. And then we'll progress through to some of the done for you options for those of you that wanna do it completely hands off. All right, so method number one is manually creating the titles, but with some assistance. I've already told you that creating the manually is gonna be painfully slow, where you're playing back the video, you're listening to what's being said, and you're just typing everything out word by word or sentence by sentence. But instead of going completely manual, you can actually use the Google or the Apple Voice text to speech feature on your phone to transcribe what you're saying so that you don't need to type it all out. So on your phone, you just press the little microphone button near your keyboard and you say the words that you want typed out, the words that have been said in your video, and it will type them out for you. So this is gonna be good for short videos where there's not a lot of text that you need to get in there, but it's gonna speed things up dramatically for you. Now for longer videos and for higher accuracy, you could also use a service like Rev. Now with Rev, your video can actually be transcribed by humans, giving you 99% accuracy on your transcription. Once you send them your footage, it's around a 24 hour turnaround time for them to give you a document back with all of your video text in there. Now from there, you can either copy and paste your text into your editing software or editing app. They also have an AI option, which is cheaper and much faster. So if you don't need that 99% level of accuracy, then the AI option could be the one for you. Now we'll have more on Rev really soon for those of you that are using more professional video editing software. But in terms of pricing, Rev will transcribe your videos starting at 25 cents per minute for their AI service, which is pretty good. But for their 99% accuracy human done transcriptions, those are gonna cost you $1.25 per minute. So while this is still a manual process, these methods are designed to help you speed up that manual process to get everything in there much faster. So now with the manual options out of the way, let's look at the next method, which is using auto caption apps. Now there's some incredible apps out there that will auto generate captions for your videos quick and easy. Some will caption your videos in real time while you're filming, and others will auto generate captions for already made videos that you've got on your device. Now there's a lot of video captioning apps out there, and we've tried and tested a ton of them. Apps like AutoCap, Threads, Captioned, Clipomatic, Captions, CapCut, Clips. We've looked at their speed, the accuracy, how easy they were to use, and how customizable they were. So here's our top picks right now, which are easy to use, export videos without a watermark, and they all happen to be free. Okay, future Justin jumping back in here because our first recommendation has changed. Instagram have recently updated their app, and it is now our first recommendation for you is to use the actual Instagram app. It's now got an amazing auto captions feature, and it works really well. So this one will work for you whether you're on iOS or Android, and it's going to caption your videos in real time while you're recording it. So let's go across. Hey, I'm on camera. So we just wanna record our video. Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers. Come over here to the stickers, down to captions. It's gonna transcribe our audio. Now from here, we can pick that up. We can move it around. We can also select on it, and we can change how it looks. And then to save it to your device, you can come with a little download button at the top, and that's going to download and save your video. Now you do have the ability in here to upload and select videos that are already on your device as well, as long as they're under that story limit of one minute. So while you could import videos longer than a minute, it's only gonna let you save them out at up to a minute. And because it's in the stories feature, it's gonna be split into 15 second chunks. And it is also limited to just portrait videos right now. But overall, it's a really quick and easy way to add auto captions to your videos, and it's pretty accurate. Now a step up from these is CapCut. CapCut is a really powerful video editing app for both iOS and Android that also happens to have a great automated captions feature. Now as it's a video editing app primarily, you've got the ability to edit, to crop, to resize, to add graphics, transitions, overlays, music, effects, and so much more to your videos, making it a full end-to-end solution for video creation. And then when you're ready to add your captions in, all you need to do is select the text option, then create auto captions, and the captions are generated and added directly to your video. Now in this one, you also have a large range of options to customize up the captions themselves. Things like the overall text style, the backgrounds, adding animations to the text, and you can even edit the caption styling individually, or you can batch edit them all together to speed up the process. Overall, this is a solid option for generating auto captions with a great level of customization, plus the fact that it's also a powerful editing app, which is awesome, and it's free. So those were our app recommendations. Now we're gonna have a look at the desktop platforms and applications, which will auto generate your captions for you. Once again, there's quite a few options out there to do this with things like Kapwing, V.io, Subtitle, Quick, Descript, Type Studio, Audiate, Subly, and after trying and testing all the top options, here's our shortlist of the best ones right now. The first one is Kapwing. It's really easy to use. It's got a ton of features built in, and it has an amazing auto captions feature. There's nothing to install. This one just runs in your web browser. It's got a really intuitive and simple looking interface. It's fast, it's customizable, and you can easily reformat your video for different platforms. Captions-wise, they're generated by AI, and they're pretty accurate, and they're easy to customize up to match the look and feel that you're after. So Kapwing was a standout for us because it gives you more choice over a lot of the other apps and other options that are out there when it comes to things like resizing your videos and choosing where you want your captions to be, all while keeping the whole process simple. Now, in terms of pricing, there's three options. There is a free plan. It does have a 250 megabyte file size upload limit, which will let you create videos up to seven minutes long without a watermark, and publish up to three hours of videos per month. The downside with this plan is that you can only edit and store your content up to two days. Up from that is the pro plan for $17 per month, which will let you export videos up to an hour long. And you can also download your SRT files, your subtitled text files in there as well. And for those of you that are working with Teams, there is a Teams plan as well for $17 per user per month. So overall, it's quick and it's easy to use, but it doesn't have a lot of the advanced features that some of the next options have. So the next one then is Descript. This is a collaborative audio and multi-track video editor that runs on both Mac and PC. So it's not something that runs in your web browser. Now, unlike Kapwing, this one also works like a document editor too, meaning that you can literally edit by deleting or moving chunks of text around, making it really easy to look out for any inaccuracies and make any amendments. So the overall interface and the experience in Descript, it's clean, it's easy to use. And I just love that you can see your entire video script laid out as a document next to your video. And editing your videos down this way is super powerful, no matter if you're creating a really short video or something that is upwards of an hour. Now, in terms of pricing, there is a free version so that you can test it out and see if Descript is right for you. But the free version does have a watermark on it. To remove the watermark and to unlock more features, that's where you wanna jump on their creator plan for $12 per month, or to unlock all the features, you wanna be on their pro plan for $24 per month. Now, while Descript is an amazing option for adding subtitles to your videos, it's also so much more. And I'm really pumped to see where they're taking this because in terms of video editing, I think these guys are changing the game. Now, for those of you that are using more professional video editing software like Adobe Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, and others as well, there are ways that you can bring your subtitles directly into those platforms without needing to manually type them out. Now, earlier in the video, we mentioned Rev, which is an amazing service to transcribe your videos, either through AI or through their human transcription service, giving you that 99% accuracy. Well, along with a text document that they can give you, they also give you access to an SRT file, a subtitles file, that you can directly import into a lot of professional video editing software, bringing in your captions directly into your timeline, but also timed perfectly with where the words have actually been said. So the pricing again for Rev was 25 cents per minute of your video for the AI transcriptions or $1.25 for the human accurate transcriptions. Now, outside of using Rev, some of these applications are already moving towards having this as an integrated feature inside of those applications. Like for example, Premiere Pro has theirs out in beta right now. Or no matter which application you're using, there's other services like Simon Says, which can be used to bring that functionality direct to your timeline right now. So Simon Says will currently work with things like Avid, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere, and Final Cut, and it will make this process seamless in your timeline. So the biggest advantage of creating your subtitles this way is this is gonna give you access to the most amount of features, the most amount of control, because you're using the pro level tools that are in your editing software. Now, for those of you who wanna be completely hands off, then this method is all about outsourcing. This is where you can send your video off to a third party provider or company to do the captions for you. So in this section, you've really got three main options. The first one is that you could find someone online to do this work for you, finding someone on places like Fiverr or Upwork. The second one is that you could use Rev for this as well. Yes, Rev's getting a few mentions in this video, but Rev actually has a really quick way to get subtitles added directly into your videos for an extra 25 cents per minute. They will burn the captions or bake the captions directly into your video, letting you download a video from them that has everything ready to go. And the third way is that you could be completely hands off and use a dedicated service like Splashio. So Splashio is a service that will accurately caption your videos while branding it in your preferred style. Now they say it's got a quick turnaround of 24 hours, and in all of my testing, it's actually been much faster. Once you've gone through and you've set up your template, it really is as simple as just uploading your videos. You can add some quick details or some text about the video and they complete the rest of the process for you. But the biggest advantage here with Splashio is that the entire process is managed by humans, meaning you've actually got someone on the other end that is producing your video for you. Now we even sent them a bit of a curve ball where we uploaded a portrait video and told them that we wanted to have a landscape video back, obviously with subtitles included. And we were pretty surprised with what they actually sent back. It looked really good and is something that we could have uploaded immediately. Now in regards to pricing, Splashio is currently running with a credit system. So we're able to purchase four credits per month for $99, and essentially each credit is five minutes of video. So this will be fine if you wanna upload a video a week that's under the five minute mark. And if you're really gonna be churning out some content, they have a social plan, which gives you 10 credits per month for $199 per month. And there's also a business plan, 20 credits per month for $399 per month. So Splashio is a great option for anyone who wants to be totally hands-off in the process, but also wants to have the accuracy and the peace of mind that it's actually being done by and reviewed by a human on the other end. So those are our top options right now for adding captions to your videos. Now as for which one is gonna be the best option for you, it's really gonna come down to the type of content that you're gonna be creating and which one of these methods best suits the outcome that you're looking for. So I really don't think there is a one size fits all or one solution fits all, just pick the ones that are gonna be the best for the videos that you're creating right now. So for us, we actually use a combination of these different methods depending on the video we're creating and where it's going to be released. For the most part, we'll use Rev to transcribe our videos. We'll grab that SRT file. We'll put it into our editing software and create our subtitles that way. Or for some videos, we just upload them to Splashio and let them create them for us. So now that you know how to add your captions on your videos, check out the video linked on screen. It's a suggestion from YouTube. I have no idea what it is. I hope it's good. I'll see you in the next one.