
Tap "Continue" once you're ready and then "Proceed" once you've selected your desired language. Select the area of the video you want to import (in case you only want to import part of it). Select your desired video from your camera roll. Once you've recorded your video in Captions or another app, tap "Create" and then tap "Import". Once you have the app and you've created an account, follow the steps below to add captions to YouTube Shorts. Captions uses the latest advancements in artificial intelligence to enable automatic captioning for YouTube Shorts. When adding a file, click “Type manually”.The most accurate, simple, and quickest way to add captions to YouTube Shorts is the Captions App.Upload it as a caption file using the instructions above.You can do this a couple of ways: Use a Sample Caption File If you have a video without any speech, it is still important to add captions per the Non-Speech Elements guidelines. You will then need to review the caption timings.Select “Auto-sync” and paste the text directly.


Select “Add” under the Subtitles column next to the language you just added:.Select “English” or the appropriate language.From the Video Subtitles Page, click the “Add Language” button.If you already have a transcript or caption file of your video or want to use a non-speech caption file you can also upload a file directly to YouTube. A link to some helpful keyboard shortcuts can be found in the caption editor:Ī caption file is basically just a text file.If you are editing the automatic captions and there are lots of errors, it may be easier to delete that file and start from scratch.
