Closed captioning a YouTube video

[BenOuarYVillon]

Merci Eddie, tu es un sacré pote ! (real fellow)

[Jainh872]

Screenflow (on a Mac).

[leonavictoria]

Thanks - great presentation; can you please tell me which program you used to record your screen with?

[RCSpain]

Here is a detailed example of a YouTube Closed Captioning file: wwwXdsuccXorg/?p=2795

You will have to replace the X with a period in order to get the URL to work.

[NBAssociation]

i really would like to know how put a minimized video caption on your video screen

[MeAgainstTheRadio]

my balls itch can u scratch them?

[Jainh872]

What operating system are you using? What text editor? What is the error message when you upload?

[twattyplaps]

i just can't seem to save the text editor file as srt! if i add that file at end then try to upload it just does not work

[MsPerditadurango]

nice voice

[Doug4347]

could you please show us how to do this on window 7, just asking, would be quite useful

[okabe13wood]

my cc doesn't work!



[MudDeveloper]

Sounds like a download problem. the ...zip.download is a partial file which exists until it has fully downloaded. I am using Eddie with Snow Leopard 10.6.7 without any problems. However that is not the only editor around. Xcode for example, which comes with Macs (an optional install which is part of the developer utilities) will do regular expressions. There must be lots of other editors too.

[silverthread7]

I have made several efforts to download and open Eddie. It does download. But when it comes to opening the zip file, it won't do. So, I renamed the ...zip.download file to just .zip, which allowed the Eddie app to appear. Yet it will not load. I believe this is a problem with interface with snow leopard. There's no contact point on the web site to confirm. So, the program no longer works.

[ricardombs09]

thank you very much, thanks to you could put subtitles

[lorddoehner]

it doesn't work

[Jainh872]

Yeah I wasn't sure about the day bit (just guessing, huh?).

As for TextEdit, it doesn't do regular expressions, so it would be harder to replace the numbers if they were only at the start of the line, but you might get away with replace "0:00:" by "00:" (as long as 0:00: didn't occur elsewhere in the line, which it might).

[charlieclairelost]

Just letting u know u got it wrong it's not day, hour, minute and second. it' actually drop frame rate, hour, minutes, seconds, and non-drop frames.

anyway great tutorial, but I think it would be much easier just use textedit. instead of downloading another software.

[Jainh872]

If there is no closed captioning file, then the CC button won't be there. So it needs to be captioned in at least one language. They have a translate feature, so once it is captioned in (say) English, you can try to translate to other languages automatically.

[IGORIGOR125]

i want to see CC button on all videos, which i could watch on you tube . . How i can do it? Or is it not supported?

[dadashovpictures]

Thanks,but it sometimes have mistakes,for Azerbaijani Language(

[sensoriussupremus]

I think I found a way to save with UTF-8. You go to Settings>Document Settings>Encoding>UTF-8. I'll give it a try and see if it works.

[sensoriussupremus]

Is there a way to make part of the text in Italic, for example if you have 2 people taking in a video, to make it clear who's speaking??? Thanks :)

[Jainh872]

I'm not sure. I tried putting i and b in angled brackets (like HTML) but YouTube seemed to ignore that.

[Jainh872]

That is part of YouTube. Once you turn closed captioning off, I think it stays off.

[TJsHerps]

Your captions popup and go away so fast I can't read them.

[chsasl]

How do our viewers turn off closed captioning if they wanted to? Looks like there is no way to turn it off. I teach sign language and caption the videos for hearing people but if they wanted to try understanding it without captions, that is why I want to know if it can be turned off and what needs to be done with the file.

[Jainh872]

When you watch a video you turn captions on or off with the button on the bottom right-hand corner (click on the CC icon in the popup menu).

You can upload one captions file per language, so it is possible select the language you wish to view (if multiple ones were uploaded).

This video itself has closed captioning, so you can experiment with turning captioning on and off.

This is not a feature in the file, it is part of the YouTube interface.

[Chris75081]

the circle thing

[Jainh872]

I did the video with ScreenFlow - a program for the Mac that captures what you are doing, and lets you add your own commentary. One of its features is that you can "callout" where the mouse is, to highlight what you are doing. Another lets you zoom into part of the screen, to show something that is relevant.

[Chris75081]

can you also do that in XP

if they do put a link

comment back plz

[Jainh872]

I think there are quite a few video capture programs for XP. I'm not sure of their names, and whether or not they have that nice "callout" feature. Try doing a Google on something like "screen capture windows".

[Chris75081]

thx

[Chris75081]

how do you do that on 0:22

[2013midget]

So after doing all the text I should be able to just upload it as a captions and subtitles?

[Jainh872]

Yes, you click on Edit -> Captions and Subtitles. You choose your captions file, and the language the captions are in (eg. English) and then upload it. If you don't get an error message (about the file being in the wrong format) you should be able to see your captions on the video a few minutes later.

[alpaljl]

Thank you so much! It works great!

[20Bond09]

Very useful, thanks!

[canadianwingshooter]

Thanks, great help. Can I use this for captioning for TV?

[Jainh872]

I am not sure of the format for TV captioning. The video describes a file which, tests show, works for YouTube.

[Jainh872]

Thank you.

I should state that this video does not mention UTF-8 encoding. If your captions use "standard ANSI" characters then UTF-8 is not necessary. These characters are the "normal" unaccented English letters (A-Z), numbers (0-9) and punctuation.

This is because they encode to the same thing in UTF-8. However if you use accented, Greek, Russian, or other character sets, then you need to save as UTF-8 encoded.

Technically, any Unicode character greater than 127 would need UTF-8 encoding.

[sensoriussupremus]

@Jainh872 How do you save it as UTF-8 with eddie? I would make spanish subs (accents, ñ, etc.) Thanks :)

[karmaghost]

Well done.