How To Caption Your Videos On YouTube [CC]

My #InternationalWeekOfTheDeaf Captioning Series:

2. How to caption videos - This video
4. Decoding captions symbols - coming soon

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[jessicaoutofthecloset]

Hope you've enjoyed this second instalment in my #InternationalWeekOfTheDeaf series! Please share this video with your friends and favourite creators to spread the message of just how easy yet vital it is to caption videos on YouTube 💘

[yeet-ljdr]

You have no idea how much I appreciate these videos, like I comment on every youtuber I watch asking for proper subtitles and the worst part is that usually they're rich af and could afford to have someone write CC for them yet they just stick to the completely useless auto generated CC, and usually it just seems to be out of laziness. I have auditory processing issues and an attention disorder so it makes it really difficult to watch things without CC, and it feels great to have people who can relate to me on this. I really fucking hope a lot of big creators see this

[fictionalhuman]

As a hearing person, I’m watching this video and many more with captions on because I like to watch while I use my hair dryer.

[SarahBent]

For any and all skeptics who've watched this - I only have 5 videos. I have only captioned one. That one has over 100 views and appears in the first 10 results of you search for wet set tutorials. As opposed to the others which are hard to find if you aren't on the channel and have less than 10. I will be captioning the other videos. But I wanted to post first to show the benefits!

[bloom]

Watching this whilst we add subtitles to our latest video! Thank you for such a fabulous & super helpful video ❤️

[stanj]

My favorite YouTuber happens to be stubborn about change. He wants to increase his subscriber count, but doesn't like taking advice (I've tried multiple times). Maybe if I point him to this series, he'll try something like this. Thanks Jessica for another great video.

[adrianaridolfi]

I've literally been payed to caption videos on youtube and yet I still watched this video to see your face.

[kingjoon]

Very informative video, thank you for speaking up about the usefulness of captions! I struggle to understand hearing what is said often and captions are always so useful. Love you so much!!

[photam]

Thank you for this informative video! My mother while she isn't a person who is deaf, English is her third language. Well she can speak it fluently she has a hard time when people are speaking quickly or she doesn't fully hear some of the nuances of the language so captions really help her. At home we always have captions on the TV.

[SpudGirl]

I am not deaf but I use captions because I have autism/sensory issues and often watch videos without sound.

[AbiofPellinor]

Thank you so much! You replied to my comment on the last video where I said I found it difficult and time consuming, I just thought I'd let you know that I captioned my latest video in around 20 minutes using the last method! (the perks of a relatively rp English accent!) From now on this is part of my video routine and (unless I forget!) non of my videos will go up without captions!
I'm so happy I can actually do this now without feeling like it's a massive chore! Thank you again!!!

[PhoebeFayRuthLouise]

Thank you, Jessica, for another terrific video on the important topic of YouTube captions! Since you began this series, I’ve been thinking about all situations where I use the captions, and one of them is because I often watch videos late at night! So often when there are not captions, I find myself going back and listening over and over whenever I can’t understand what someone said! Unfortunately not everyone speaks as clearly as you!

[kaedequinn]

THANK YOU!! I've had to stop watching many videos because I couldn't fully understand it, either because I couldn't hear it properly, the accent was difficult to understand or the person was speaking way too fast! I've asked some people if they could add captions because I couldn't understand them, and they told me that I "listen too slow" when I mentioned they were speaking so fast I couldn't understand them 😭

[georgiabrook]

I wasn't aware that it was international week of the deaf but after watching your first video I talked to me hearing impared students about it and whether my lessons are able to be accessed easily by them. One of my students was very happy to hear it was international week of the deaf and took his hearing aids out as a joke! I find all of your videos a very helpful reminder to be mindful of my students and their needs.

[oAvalono]

These are looking great Jessica! I'm not hearing impared but I have been a [CC] advocate since I started watching foreign cartoons in the 90's. Thanks for letting people like me contribute to closed captioning efforts!

[elizabethaman]

ALSO, this video was so beautifully edited, the way that you pointed out exactly how to follow your instructions and everything. Thank you so much!

[GregRodgers]

Great video and hopefully more people will consider captioning their videos.

[JZmatazz]

I just starting working as a captioner this week, and I can already tell these videos are going to be super helpful. Atmospherics and cross talking are some of the things I really struggle with.

[JennaGetsCreative]

As an art channel, I almost always do voice overs because my face generally isn't on screen and the majority of my content is sped up so it isn't boring to watch. I don't script, though, so I don't have a script document to drop into the YouTube tools. This means I either actually listen to my video in that second option and type it all out, then make timing adjustments as needed, or (if it worked in the first place), edit the auto-generated captions.

(edit to add) I'm partially deaf myself, so I'm a frequent user of captions on others' content. For some reason, when I started uploading (rather than just being a viewer) I figured speed paints where I rambled about something random to fill the silence for hearing viewers don't need edited captions. Then I watched one of my videos with auto captions turned on. Yeah, no. Not good enough. If they're going to be captioned anyway, gosh darn it the captions are going to make sense!

[SIGSEGV]

I love captions, they're so useful when videos have iffy audio