Transcript of "Captions in a couple minutes" produced by Rooted in Rights

[NARRATOR] Captions in a couple minutes.


Captions provide a real-time
on-screen text version


of everything spoken within a video


as well as any relevant sounds,


music,


or intonation.


They help all sorts of viewers
understand video content –


whether you're Deaf, hard-of-hearing,


forgot your headphones


or just like to read along.


To create captions for YouTube,
Facebook and Twitter videos,


first upload your video to YouTube.


Using the classic version of Creator Studio,


locate the video you want to caption
within the dashboard.


Click the drop-down
next to the video's "Edit" button


and select "Subtitles/CC".


While you can create your captions
from scratch


by clicking on the "Add new subtitles" button,


YouTube will usually publish
a draft of your captions for you


a short time after
your video is uploaded.


You can also get
captions from a third party


uploaded directly to your account
for as little as $1 a minute.


But while both options
can be a great start


they usually need to be
edited for accuracy.


To make sure your captions
are just right,


click on a published version
to pull up YouTube's caption editor.


Click the "Edit" button
in the top right of the page


and use the caption blocks
on the left to edit text


and to add or remove captions.


To change timing drag the
caption's start and end points


on the timeline.


Remember, in addition
to what is spoken


captions need to include
important sounds,


[rooster crows]


[unhappy] inflections


and music.


[saxophone playing "Happy Birthday Song"]


[record scratch]


[Narrator] Also it's best that captions are
formatted correctly in order to easily distinguish sounds from speakers and
speakers from one another.


For an amazing guide on
how to format your captions correctly


visit www.CaptioningKey.org.


Once you've finished editing your
YouTube captions, save changes.


You can use your captions on
Facebook and Twitter


by simply downloading them
as an SRT file


in the actions drop-down menu.


You can upload that SRT file to your video
in either platform.

Accessibility is cool.

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