 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. Video today regarding a way to add subtitles to YouTube videos, leveraging the decent automatic subtitle generation functionality in YouTube. So I did a video a few days ago showing how to use Kaden Live, the popular open source video editing software, in order to add subtitles but not actually render them on the video, rather export them as a .srt file, upload that into YouTube Studio, and then have a manual subtitle track. Now I posted that video on the Kaden Live subreddit, and as someone said that's not the most intelligent way to go by things, but you know in my perspective it's fine to have a few methods. This was one method but another method that the person pointed out was one I also wanted to show, which is using the automatic subtitles that YouTube generates whenever you upload a video, and starting from that instead of from scratch, and then just fixing a few things that are incorrect about that subtitle file, and then adding that in is as a manual human subtitle, and then you can do the auto translate two different languages if you want, and what you'll find is that once you have a really solid English subtitling file, the auto translations to different languages will be much better than if you just worked off the automated YouTube subtitle file. I hope that was clear, but to break this down a little bit, I thought what I would do for a demo is add subtitles into one of my videos. So this is actually my most popular YouTube video to date, believe it or not. It's about the TP-Link ER605, which is in normal person language, a box that improves your internet connection. It's a load balancing wired router for failover. So I did this video and to my surprise, 22,000 views is quite a lot, and decent amount of comments, so it seems good. So this would be, if I'm going to do add subtitles to one video right now, let's start with the popular ones. So what I can do is going into the, in my YouTube studio here, just click on the edit pencil icon. I'm going to put myself down here. And now I'm going to jump on the left into subtitles. Now I haven't added anything, this video is up on YouTube, but as you can see, there is already a published version. Now these are the automatic subtitles, and let's just take a quick look at how good they are. So it's just a me. Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rose here. Probably should start my videos more imaginatively. But let's take a look at how that was captured in the auto-generated English subtitles. So when you go into subtitles, you have an option English, but it does say it's auto-generated. So let's take a look at what's on the screen. Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosalie, I guess it would be pronounced. So they've clearly got my surname wrong, but besides that, the sentence is okay. So we have a good basis, I would say. Now when we go into the subtitle options here, we have English, Duplicate and Edit, right? So what I can do is actually download this as a .srt format. And we have here now captions.srt. Now here's what a subtitle file looks like. I'm using this in Ubuntu Linux and .srt. It's a really, really simple plain text format. It has timestamps and it has text as you can see. Now I have subtitle editor installed on my computer. That's the program this is using. So it actually makes it really, really easy to work with. So you can see, hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube. So hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube, right? It should be a capital Y, capital T. Channel this is Daniel Rosalie. Now I'm not going to do the whole thing because that would make this video very cumbersome. I want to do a video showing the configuration of the TP-Link ER605. Okay, I'm just going to save these two lines. And we have start, end, duration and text, right? So what if I do now is I'm going to save this as I'm going to go to my desktop and I'm going to call this er605upunderscoreupdated.srt and I'm going to click on Save. Now what I'm going to do is click Add Language and I'm going to go for English. Now I'm going to actually edit this whole subtitle file but I'll do it after the video. Now English, technically I guess I do speak Irish English if you will, Duplicate and Edit. And I'm going to edit my existing English draft. And this is just everything put together here. It's a bit of a mess. But I have the option here for uploading a file and I'm going to be uploading the file with a timing. So just to be clear on what I've done today, I've gone into YouTube Studio. I've gone into my video which has automatic subtitles. I've downloaded that subtitle file in my chosen format. I like SRT. I then installed a subtitle editor. Now you actually don't even need to use a subtitle editor. You can probably just use a text, notepad, whatever Google subtitle editor windows. I'm using subtitle editor on Ubuntu and I'm sure there's one on Mac. Then I'm editing that. I'm actually editing the AI generated subtitle file. And then to finish off the process, when I'm happy with it, I'm uploading it again to YouTube. So this is actually a pretty nice work, to my opinion, of humans and AI working in harmony. So subtitle type is going to be with timing because remember we had those timestamps. And now all you need to do is point to the SRT file on your computer. Mine is er605 underscore updated dot SRT. And now if you see the edits have been preserved, I'm going to click on publish. And later after I finish this video, I'm going to edit this. Give it a second to load. Now if we firstly refresh the video. And now we should have, hopefully, sometimes I've noticed there's a bit of a lag after you publish subtitles. It takes a little while. So this is good. Welcome back to my YouTube. And we can see that YouTube has the capital Y and the capital T. So this must mean that we are now accessing the actual manual English subtitles. And now under subtitle slash CC, by clicking on the settings cog, we don't have one subtitle file, which would be the English auto-generated. We have two. As you can see here, we have English. And then we have English auto-generated. And you can of course do auto-translate. Welcome back to my YouTube. This is Daniel Rossell. So that is a workflow, an alternative workflow to adding manually your subtitles in Kaden Live and then exporting the XRT, then exporting that up to the cloud. This is a smarter way. And it's also going to be a lot quicker because instead of starting from scratch and having to type out every single thing you say, you're going to have a pretty decent first pass at it by AI. And then all you need to do is make some tweaks. To get it up to 100% and then upload it. I hope this video has been useful if you are a fellow YouTuber and you're looking to start adding subtitles to your videos. If you want to get more videos from me about Linux, technology, backups, and other subjects, please do consider subscribing to this YouTube channel. Thank you for watching.