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Hello everybody, it's Andrew here again. In this video, I'm going to show how to add closed
captions or subtitles to your YouTube videos. Doing so is a great way to increase your videos
accessibility, especially to the hearing impaired, and it's also very good for SEO as Google
indexes the text that you include in your captions.
So, the first thing you need to do is upload a video, then come to your Video Manager.
From the Video Manager, click Edit next to the video you want to add captions to, and
select the captions option. From here, click 'Add New Captions or Transcript' and you can
either upload a caption file if you're familiar with those, but I find the Transcript file
as a plain text Notepad document works just fine.
Select the language and you can name it if you like. Click choose a file and navigate
to where your closed captions text document is. Here's mine - changepincover - and all
I've done in this file is simply written out all of the words written in my paragraph.
Here it is, just a few paragraphs and saved as an ordinary plain text file. Click 'Upload
File', this might take a few minutes so don't worry if it's loading for a while. Here we
are, here's the uploaded file, and here's the one YouTube tried to put together on its
own. You can see that it's all gobblidigook, doesn't make sense, so I can disable this
track by clicking on it. And here's mine with the green circle which means that it's active.
And all I have to do is click Play to test it. Here are my captions at the bottom. And
I find that YouTube does a pretty good job of synching the text with the spoken words.
And that's all there is to it. Click here to view the video on its own page, turn on
Closed Captions, and here we are.
Thanks very much for watching, I hope this helped. My ebook, 500 Social Media Marketing
Tips is available on Amazon.com for Kindle and Smashwords.com for lots of other devices.
Thanks very much, good bye.