YouTube Captions

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Would you like your YouTube videos to reach
a larger audience? Adding captions has never
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been easier! In Google Docs or in any text
editor, type the text of what was said in
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your video. Once you’re finished, save it
as a plain text file.
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To give you an idea of the formatting of a
transcript file, here’s what the transcript
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file of this video looks like. Additional
captioning options can be found in the YouTube
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Help Center.
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To get started visit your Video Manager page,
click the drop-down button next to “Edit”
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and select “Captions”.
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Click the “Upload caption file or transcript”
button.
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Now select the file with the caption text.
Make sure to select the “Transcript file”
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option before going forward.
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You can also select the language of your transcript
file. Once you’re ready, click “Upload”.
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After processing, you’ll see your transcript
file as an active track. That’s all there
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is! Your YouTube video will now have captions!

Title:: YouTube Captions
Description:: Do you use YouTube Captions? If not, you really should! Captions and subtitles increase your audience, helping deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals enjoy your video just as much as you do. Captions let people who speak different languages understand what is going on in a video. YouTube uses Google's translation tool to automatically translate uploaded captions into 60 different languages.

To learn more about captions on YouTube, click here:
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/static.py?hl=en&topic=2734693&guide=2734661&page=guide.cs

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Video Language:: English
Team:: Captions Requested
Duration:: 0:57

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