The Easiest Way to Closed Caption Videos

Okay, so I’ve been talking about closed
captioning and how important it is to closed

caption your videos for deaf and hard of hearing,
people with autism, uh, auditory processing

disorder, English as a insert-number-here
language.

There’s so many benefits to closed captioning
but nobody really thinks about it because

it’s just “so annoying to look at the
words”.

And then when it comes to actually doing them
and putting them on videos, it’s - or one

of it’s -

“I don’t know how to closed caption”
or “It is so tedious and it takes so long.”

And I think if me, the person who has to do
twice as much work as hearing folks do to closed

caption videos and -

While it takes me a while, it doesn’t take
me as long as people tell me that it takes

so I’m thinking -

What if you people are torturing yourselves
and doing it the wrong way?

The way that would make it take so long?

There’s a way I do it and I’m gonna tell
you the way I do it because I wanna help you.

There are three different ways - or two different
ways to do it on YouTube.

One is doing it line by line and getting rid
of the automatic closed cRaptioning.

You delete what is already on there and then
you write over it.

That takes me so much longer and I’m thinking,
“Is this the way people have been doing

it ‘cos no wonder you hate it so much!”

I hate it so much and you’re torturing yourselves
and I want you to stop torturing yourselves.

If you’re doing it with YouTube’s typing
in YouTube box, stop!

Because you will hate it because I hate it.
If I hate it, you are going to hate it. Probably.

The easiest way, in my opinion, is to do it
off of YouTube and then do it on YouTube.

What I always do is I have Google Drive and
I open up a Google Doc and I write out everything

almost like a paper.

Or an essay. Whatever.

And then I get that all typed out and then
I paste it into Notepad.

Notepad has an encoding thing on the bottom
when you go to save it.

So you save it as a file and you also save
it with UTF-8 encoding.

And you have to save it with those settings
because if you have apostrophes or fractions,

numbers, that kind of stuff, it turns into
a question mark and I made that mistake the

first time I tried using this method to closed
caption.

So save it and then upload your transcript
to your videos, line it up, and then you’re

done.

Doing it with that editing over the auto cRaptions
line, it takes way too long. It takes so much

longer for me to do that than just doing this.

And the reason why I say to use Google Docs
is because it saves literally every second

and every change that you make.

I know two people that did it all on the YouTube
thing and then they accidentally hit backspace

and when they went back, everything was gone
and nobody wants that to happen because that

is what makes this kind of process so annoying
to do.

When you do all of that work and then it’s
gone, for anything.

So trust me when I say go to Google Doc.

YouTube does save but it takes a little bit
longer and I don’t like it. I just don’t

like the risk.

So now that I’ve explained it, I’m going
to actually show you in case you’re like

me and you need the visual part.

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Okay, hopefully, this was a lot helpful and
if you haven’t already started using this

method, use it because I find it a lot easier
and if you’re already using it and you find

it difficult -

I have no words to help you.

Because, honestly, it’s the way that I prefer
going about it and for me, it is the fastest

way and foolproof way.

Yeah! I will see you in my next video. Bye.