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I'm here to talk to you about putting
captions/subtitles on your YouTube video
using overstream.net.
Overstream.net is an online service that
lets you caption your own videos.
You do all your work in a web browser
This tutorial is going to show you how to use Overstream
and all the basics. Overstream is like YouTube
but it's for captioned videos.
It's not as big as YouTube, but it has an audience.
I'm going to teach you how to navigate that
and also how to put the files you caption
onto YouTube.
YouTube translates all your captions for you.
So here we go!
Create an Overstream account.
Get your video onto Overstream by
copying your YouTube video's URL and
pasting it in the provided box.
Now you can play it on the Overstream server.
Now I'm going to add a caption during
the parts where I am speaking.
As I type, the subtitles pop up.
I can move the box to move the subtitle
or click on the End Time and Start Time buttons.
If I want to erase a subtitle
I click Remove.
Watch as I adjust these subtitles on the timeline.
Now my work is nearly done
I can save it by clicking the "Save As" button.
You can save at any time
even if you aren't finished adding captions.
Watch as I line up the captions using
the Start Time and End Time buttons
to make the captions as close to together as possible
and in synch with the video as I can.
You may have noticed that my captions do not
exactly match up with the video.
That's because people read differently than they hear.
It is not necessary for me to add all the "umms" and pauses
that normal speech has, as well as my habits
such as saying "like" and"umm" too much.
Now that I'm finished I can go to the "Overstream Properties Tab".
I can make my video public and add a description of the video
as well as tags.
This will help people on Overstream find my video.
It works like YouTube!
Now that that's done, I make sure everything is perfect!
Now, to put my subtitles onto YouTube I click
the Tools button on the lower right.
Now I have an .SRT file that's compatible with YouTube.
I save it to my documents
and then go back to YouTube and on
the lower right I click "Captions and Subtitles".
Then I go to Browse and open the .SRT file I saved from Overstream.
Then I pick the subtitle language
and then click Upload.
Tada! I now have subtitles.
Now I can see the translations of my captions by
going to the Closed Captioning Box on the right corner of the video
and picking a language!
Now I'm watching my video with Spanish subtitles!
Congradulations! You know how to subtitle/caption your videos!
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