Closed captioning a YouTube video
Describes how to add closed captioning to your YouTube videos with just a text editor. The method simply involves playing back the video using QuickTime, capturing the time-codes and pasting into a text editor. The text editor I used on the Mac was Eddie: http://www.el34.com/ A suitable text editor for Windows would be Crimson Editor: http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Both allow you to do find-and-replace with Regular Expressions, which is needed to trim the leading "0:" from the timecode.Category: Howto
Author: Jainh872
Published (on YouTube): 2009-07-28
Published (here): 2012-05-23
Rating: 4.419355; Votes:62
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Comments on «Closed captioning a YouTube video»:
BenOuarYVillon on 2012-01-17
Merci Eddie, tu es ...
Merci Eddie, tu es un sacré pote ! (real fellow)
Jainh872 on 2011-10-27
Screenflow (on a ...
Screenflow (on a Mac).
leonavictoria on 2011-10-27
Thanks - great ...
Thanks - great presentation; can you please tell me which program you used to record your screen with?
RCSpain on 2011-10-01
Here is a detailed ...
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 on 2011-08-14
i really would ...
i really would like to know how put a minimized video caption on your video screen
MeAgainstTheRadio on 2011-07-14
my balls itch can u ...
my balls itch can u scratch them?
Jainh872 on 2011-07-12
What operating ...
What operating system are you using? What text editor? What is the error message when you upload?
twattyplaps on 2011-07-11
i just can't seem ...
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 on 2011-07-04
nice voice
nice voice
Doug4347 on 2011-06-30
could you please ...
could you please show us how to do this on window 7, just asking, would be quite useful
okabe13wood on 2011-04-24
my cc doesn't work!
my cc doesn't work!
MudDeveloper on 2011-04-18
Sounds like a ...
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 on 2011-04-18
I have made several ...
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 on 2010-12-30
thank you very much ...
thank you very much, thanks to you could put subtitles
lorddoehner on 2010-09-06
it doesn't work
it doesn't work
Jainh872 on 2010-09-04
Yeah I wasn't sure ...
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 on 2010-09-04
Just letting u know ...
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 on 2010-09-02
If there is no ...
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 on 2010-09-02
i want to see CC ...
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?
Jainh872 on 2010-03-28
I'm not sure. I ...
I'm not sure. I tried putting i and b in angled brackets (like HTML) but YouTube seemed to ignore that.
sensoriussupremus on 2010-03-28
I think I found a ...
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 on 2010-03-28
How do you save it ...
How do you save it as UTF-8 with eddie? I would make spanish subs (accents, ñ, etc.) Thanks :)
sensoriussupremus on 2010-03-27
Is there a way to ...
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 on 2010-03-08
That is part of ...
That is part of YouTube. Once you turn closed captioning off, I think it stays off.
TJsHerps on 2010-03-07
Your captions popup ...
Your captions popup and go away so fast I can't read them.