How to Quickly Transcribe and Edit YouTube Videos Using YouTube Studio (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Transcribing a YouTube video fast and easy? I got you. One of the easiest ways to transcribe a YouTube video is by using YouTube's automatic captioning software. Now, this is really great because with one click of a button, you can help your video reach a much wider audience through YouTube's automatic translation function. As well, it's going to be great to consume without sound, as well as for those who may be hard of hearing. It's kind of a win-win-win situation. However, I need to put this out there, YouTube's automatic speech recognition doesn't always render the most accurate captions. But, you can actually go in and edit these captions later, so I'll show you how to do that as well. To view and edit your captions, the first thing that we want to do is sign into YouTube Studio. Next, we're going to go down to the Subtitles option here on the left-hand side. And now, I've uploaded a demo for the purposes of today's demo. You can see the video here is called Demo. So you can see that YouTube has already gone in and created an English transcription of this video. And we can go ahead and edit. There's also a few other options here. We can unpublish those captions. We can download them and edit them, you know, manually on a text editor or something like that. But let's go ahead and click Duplicate and Edit. What this is going to do, it's going to duplicate that file so that you have a backup of it. And then it's going to give us this one to edit with. So you can see, it's actually created a transcription of my entire video here. But you can see there's a couple things. All right, for instance, would be one word. We want a capital on that. So we can actually just go through and edit this like text. Now, one small little side note here. If you're just looking to download a transcription of a video that you've already published, you can actually go to the video here on YouTube. In the bottom right-hand corner, click these three dots. Click Show Transcript. And it's going to give you a text transcript of the entire video. Now, you can just highlight all of this, copy it, and paste it. Of course, that's going to include the little timestamps there. So it doesn't look great, but it is a quick way to grab the text from one of your videos. Okay, back to our editor here. So I'm just going to quickly comb through this and make sure that I'm really happy with the punctuation and the spelling through this video. Okay, I think that's good. I'm happy with the grammar. Let me know if I've missed anything down in the comments. What we can do now is go into Edit Timings. And this is going to show us a timestamp of each caption, where it starts and where it ends. And you can edit these timings just by changing the text field in here or how long the duration is of each section. But you can also just do it by dragging these sections around like this. I find this to be a much easier way to line up the captions properly. And if I play this back... All right, voice actors, I got a question for you. What's your thought on audio editing software? So you can see here, I actually already have captions burnt into this video, these white ones here. But YouTube is adding these black ones down below. So this is really, really helpful. They also have this tool to pause while typing. So if you want to edit, the video will automatically pause while you're typing, which is really, really helpful for transcribing quickly. And once you're done with this, you can actually go ahead and download these subtitles as a .sbv file. You can save that to your computer. You can upload that into your video editing software. Once you click Publish, it's going to replace the automatic captions that YouTube created originally with the captions that you've added. So we can actually go ahead and delete these ones now, because we know that the ones that we've created are a little bit more refined. They have better grammar, better punctuation. So we're happy with that. Keep in mind, you can always jump back in and edit if you find any issues down the road. But this is a really quick way to transcribe. If you were working on like a two hour long podcast or something like that, it's going to do the bulk of the work for you and you can just go through and spell check. It's going to save you a whole lot of time and energy. And of course, I hope that today's video was helpful for you. If it was, please feel free to go ahead and subscribe for more videos just like this. Hope you guys have a great day and we'll see you in the next one.