 what's up internet so i knew to this whole youtube video thing and i made a dumb mistake i paid rev for captions for some of my youtube videos what is rev it's one of the popular services that can provide transcripts of youtube videos or basically any material that you give them recorded audio and things like that for a dollar a minute they will provide you a transcript or subtitles captions to material that you send them and the rev service itself is very good i have nothing bad to say about it it's straightforward it's easy to use payment is easy turn around for the captions is also very fast the captions themselves were not 100% accurate but they were good enough i mean you know considering the price the accuracy was yeah okay not bad i'm not 100% accurate but close enough but i realized how much of a dummy i was when i uploaded the rev generated captions to my youtube videos and i realized that i could have gotten the same level of accuracy in captions for free because youtube actually does generate its own captions and i knew this but when i had checked it out before the accuracy was not so good i wasn't impressed so i thought you know i needed a paid service but comparing the accuracy of the rev transcript versus that generated by youtube i mean the youtube one was not bad yes you need to edit it some more but basically it does 90% of the work for you and you just need to do a bit more work on the timing and on the spelling and on punctuation and things like compared to free good enough via youtube and some you know elbow work a little bit you have to put in a little bit of work versus a paid good enough service by rev then the free youtube one really should be the one i use especially because hardware sugar is on the big channel we're just really doing it to promote the products of the shop one interesting thing to note is that if the title of your video is not in english the transcript will not auto generate i guess youtube is smart enough to know that this title is not in english and therefore perhaps the content of the video is not in english as well so it will not auto generate english captions that's a bit of a gray area for cultures like the philippines where we use taglish a lot a lot of people understand some english and they're also comfortable with tagalog and so we caught between english and tagalog fairly quickly most of the time in videos and giving the video a tagalog title doesn't necessarily mean that the video itself is mostly in tagalog so that's just something to look out for if you put a non english title then youtube will not auto generate captions currently i have never asked rev again to do captions for my videos i don't edit the entire video usually i only edit the captions for the first three minutes or so just to make sure that you know when somebody starts watching the video it's clear enough to them like if they're on their mobile or things like that that they do have the option to have captions on and then hopefully they continue to watch after the point where i've stopped editing that they're willing to forgive inaccuracy in the transcripts so again youtube noob i hope this helps you in saving some money for your youtube channel and the youtube generated captions are good enough with a little bit of work on the human side so i hope that these basic tips helped you if you found this video helpful please drop a like and hit the subscribe button for your pc needs consider buying from us hardware sugar at lazada or on our website you can find links in the description below and thank you for watching see you next video