Welcome to Tinkernut.com's videocast. If you enjoy these videos, please support them by subscribing or commenting. In this video, I am going to go over how to add captions or subtitles to YouTube videos and how to translate them, so that people can enjoy them from anywhere.
To do this, first of all find a video that you want to add closed captions to and that you want to translate. I am just going to go to the list of videos that I have uploaded. Once I find one, I am going to click the Edit button. Then go to Cations and Subtitles at the top. Now if you see it has a Browse button, so you can browse and upload subtitles. Most people don't have these lying around, so what we are going to have to do is create some.
You can do this one way, by using Media Subtitler which I've covered before in the link below (www.tinkernut.com/archives/140). It's a free downloadable program. Otherwise, you can sign up for a free account at dotSUB. If you do a Google search for that, it will take you to their website. This just allows you to upload videos and add subtitles to them over the Internet without having to download anything.
So I've just signed up for an account and I am going to add a new video. So I put in all the information browsed to where the video is and click Save and it starts to upload it. Whenever it's through uploading, select the video that you want to transcribe. Now go to the Translate and Transcribe options, click Transcribe Video. It will take you to this page where you can play the video and add transcriptions to the video as you are playing it. So this is the first 6 seconds of the video and this is what I said. So I am going to type that out and change the time from 0 to 6 seconds and then click the green plus sign to add it.
Then I am going to continue that until I have got a transcription for the whole video. I am doing it in about 4 or 5 second intervals. So once I have the last of it and I am at the end of the video, then I scroll down to the bottom and just click Mark this transaction complete and then click OK. So now whenever you play the video, it's going to have the subtitles and captions playing right along with the video.
Now if you look under the Translate and Transcribe options, gives you an option to transcribe it into other languages as well. Now it doesn't do this for you automatically, so you will either have to know the language or know somebody else that knows the language, so that you can fill in all the transcription information. Otherwise, you can just download the subtitle and save it to your computer. Then go back to your YouTube page that we started at and click the Browse button and just select the subtitle file that we just downloaded.
Now just add a Track Name for it. I am going to call mine Transcription and select the Language for it and click Upload. So now whenever you go back to your video and play it, you will notice that in the lower-right hand corner it has a cc button. If you click on that, it will show the close captioning for this video. YouTube also has an option where it automatically translates these captions as well. If you want to try that out, just go back to the right hand corner, the cc button and click Translate. It will show you all the different languages that it can translate the captions into.
So I am just going to select German, for instance, and click Translate. The only problem with it is that it doesn't work for Word, so if may not sound exactly right in the other language. So with this a good way to get your video is out there for the world. That's it for this tutorial, for more go to Tinkernut.com.
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