 How do I manually add, change or edit subtitles to my YouTube videos? I'm adding closed captions to my YouTube video. I'm going to show you everything step by step, how we do this with the new YouTube subtitles tab for 2021. We're going to get through this as quickly as possible, I promise. And I've got time codes in the description if you want to jump ahead or re-watch any section at any time. Hello, I'm Neil Mossy. Welcome back to the Happy Heart. And as a bonus, I'm going to be experimenting with adding another foreign language subtitles to this video. If you click on the cog at the bottom of this screen or at the top right hand corner, the three dots there, you'll see how many other languages I've subtitled this video into. So we're going to have a play around with that. That's at the end of the video. But first, let's dive in and get started. This is the video that I want to subtitle or add captions to. I haven't subtitled it yet. Obviously, we will go to the bar on the left hand side and click on subtitles tab. And this page opens up. There's already one set of subtitles here and there should be a set of subtitles for your video too. It's the automatic transcription. There's a set of subtitles that have been auto-generated by YouTube. We are going to use that auto-generated transcript to make our own manual subtitles. So if I click on duplicate and edit, these are the subtitles. This is the transcript that YouTube has made. And that's fantastic because we can use this transcript for anything. Just rip the text from the YouTube video. I have even used my YouTube transcripts to publish a book. This is a chat with my dad, who's a London taxi driver. We're just talking about how hard it was to become a London taxi driver in the 1960s. I used this system to just completely lift a transcript for free and I published it as an e-book. So these transcripts are incredibly useful. And YouTube have very kindly provided a base for my manual subtitles. I'm not going to have to do very much typing at all, which is great. To show you how it works, if I click on assign timings, you can see that YouTube has already assigned these sentences and these words to these time codes. So if I hit play on the video... happens if you put 12 ad breaks into one YouTube video. And how do you even put a mid-roll ad break into a YouTube video? So we can see that the timings and the captions, they move with the video. YouTube automatically does all of this for you. If I wanted to change the subtitles that are here, I can do that right now. I can just change this word to, I don't know, RAM in capitals. You can see that the effect is instant. I can even change that incorrect I to a capital I. And it changes it instantly. Now, if I wanted to, I could hit publish up here on the top right-hand corner and those changes would be made. I'm going to do a slightly bigger cleanup of these subtitles. If I click on edit as text, it flips you back to the transcripts of the video. This is pretty much everything that's said in the video. I'm going to double click on it to highlight it and hit command C or control C if you're on a PC. Or you can right click and go for copy. There's a really easy way to clean up this transcript. If I right click and paste, we now have the entire transcript in this word processing document. We can correct any words that the YouTube auto-generated subtitles haven't quite got right. And I can do this manually. If I click on edit, find and replace. I can replace every lowercase I. So I'll put find, space, lowercase I, space. You can see them highlighted on the documents. And I want to replace that with a capital I. So I'll put a space, capital I, space. If I didn't put the spaces in, it would just replace all little eyes with big eyes. We don't want that. We want the ones that are standing alone. See, it's highlighting the little I. I'll hit replace and find to change it to a big eye. So I'll hit replace all. So now all the eyes are correct. I make other changes as well. These are just stylistic things because I need it for the transcripts that I'm going to use on my blog or my book. If I hit tab, it's a bit grand, isn't it? I haven't got a book planned. So I'll change YouTube to the correct capitalization. We can do a replace all on that. And then the next thing I'll do is to change the formatting. So I want to break things up into sentences. You don't need to do this. I only do it because it makes it a lot easier to put on my blog. So I'll speed this bit up. And there it is, our completed transcripts. Now, again, you really don't have to do this. I'm doing this to show you that if you wanted to format your subtitles, you can do it. And then we'll copy it. So copy. And then I'm going to go back to my video on the YouTube Studio dashboard. It's here waiting for me. I'm going to select all. I'm going to delete these subtitles. And I'm going to paste my transcript into here. So you can see this is my formatted transcript. This is the crazy thing. If I hit assign timings, it has assigned them absolutely correctly. So if I click play here, by making people not come to see my show, Mel Brooks, you're a genius. So I'm going to hit continue here. And it seems to have accepted it. It used to be that you had to wait five or 10 minutes for YouTube to assign the timings. I don't know what kind of crazy magic they've added. But for 2021, YouTube can automatically time out your transcript to your video. It's amazing. All I'll do now is go to the top right hand corner, hit publish, and it's published. So you see that there are now two sets of subtitles. We have the auto transcribe, the auto generated YouTube subtitles. And we have my English subtitles because the automatic ones have things that are wrong in them. I don't really want these incorrect subtitles there. So I'll hit delete captions. So now my captions are the only captions available. And if I go to this video on YouTube, I'll click on view on YouTube. Here's the video. Do you know what happens if you put 12 outbreaks into one YouTube video? And how do you even put a mid-roll outbreak? It's formatted as I want to format it. My name is spelled correctly. So that is a win. If I go back to the transcript, you can change this at any time. If I click on edit, you know that bit where I capitalized the RAM? So I can change that back to normal. And it changes it. If I hit publish, those changes are now live on my closed captions for this video. Stick around because I want to show you something really cool next. But if you do have a moment to hit thumbs up or hit the subscribe button, I've got loads more videos like this coming up. So thank you for taking me closer to 10,000 subscribers. But we're going to explore this button here, add language. Now I had a question on my last subtitled video, which was that she had made a video in English, but wanted to provide Khmer subtitles for her English video. This new system makes it very easy to do this, I think. If I click on German, and I come over here and hit add, I don't fully understand why I would add German subtitles manually, because if you hit the cog at the bottom of a YouTube video, you can get YouTube to auto translate the subtitles anyway. But I guess the advantage with this is that I have created a really clean, grammatically correct transcript and subtitles and closed captions in English. I'm wondering if this means that it would translate more clearly as well. But if I hit auto translate in German, it has completely instantly translated my YouTube subtitles. Great thing with this is if I hit publish, I now have German subtitles, albeit auto translated of my transcript. Does that mean that this video will be bumped up the algorithm on German YouTube? This could be really exciting if you get some kind of benefit or advantage from having subtitles in a foreign language. Is that a good thing? Would it mean that more people get to see your video? You could even go further by adding a German title and description to your video. And just for the fun of it, just for the experiments, I went to translates.google.com and I put my title in. So if I put this on the English side and we'll change the translation to German. So if I choose German, my schoolboy German seems to think that this is okay. So if I hit copy and put that into my title and I can even do the same with the description. So if you have any insight to this, I would love to hear from you. But this could be really exciting or it could be yet another way that I wreck my YouTube channel. Who knows? I hope this helps you to navigate the new subtitles tab. 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