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This video will demonstrate how to use and edit the Auto-captions in YouTube:
When recording your audio, remember to speak clearly and slowly to improve the accuracy
of the auto-captioning. This will reduce the time needed to edit the captions later.
And when you are putting together your video or presentation, remember to not that bottom
fifth of the screen or slide will be covered up by captions . so try not to put important
content there. Alright, let's get started. You'll need to
sign-in to YouTube. GW hasn't enabled YouTube for GW Google accounts. So you'll need to
use your own Google account or you're welcome to use the Smart Lab account, just let us
know. When you are signed-in, click on Video Manager
under Upload. Go to the uploaded video that you want to
caption.
Click the down arrow next to Edit Click the item: Captions
There should be a list of Active Tracks to the right of the video
Click on the active track called English automatic captions
The minute and second to the left of each caption is the time at which that caption
will appear on the screen. Each caption stays on the screen until the next caption appears.
As you play your video, the relevant caption is highlighted.
Listen to the video and correct the automatic captions.
While you are listening and typing, you can hit the space bar to stop the video and catch
up typing. You can also click anywhere around the middle
of the video to stop and start it. It's quicker to listen to the entire caption
section if you can, and then correct it, rather than starting and stopping within one caption
entry. Watch the video again, reading the captions.
There will inevitably be a few mistakes to fix.
Save a copy of your captions. Now we need to change the title of your captions,
to differentiate them from the automated captions First click add track name
change the track name to something like Edited Version and save changes
Now, when students are watching your video they can click on the CC button and choose
to play your corrected captions. Alternatively, if you have already written
out your narration, you can upload it as a transcript
This transcript is in Word. I will save as a plain text file first and just leave the
default settings. So now, instead of correcting the automated
captions, you can click upload transcript. Browse for your transcript and then click
Sync. It can take a little while for Youtube to divide your transcript into captions and
assign the correct timing. When it's done, you'll want to rename the edited version just
as we did our corrected auto captions before.