YouTube on Captions

writer85 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:21:38 +0000

As more and more users are visiting YouTube, the development team is looking for more ways in providing users new and useful features to enhance their viewing experience and conquer a wider audience. One of this is the captioning feature that allows video owners to put captions on their videos that will give the viewers a better understanding of it. Captions can surely be handy especially to those with hearing disabilities or to those who speak other languages. It can also provide a better viewing experience when audio tracks are of poor quality.

To add captions on your videos, go to the “Captions and Subtitles” menu on the editing page and upload a closed caption file. You can upload multiple files if you wish to add several captions to a video. For foreign subtitles in multiple languages, there are over 120 languages to select from, you can upload a separate file for each language and add titles for each caption.

You can turn on/off video captions when watching a video by clicking the “up arrow” button found on the bottom right of the video player. Select the captions/subtitles menu button. If there are available captions/subtitles for the video, the button will be clickable. You can also change the language by clicking the “up arrow” button on the bottom right of the video player. Click the “left arrow” next to the captions/subtitles menu button. The button will only be available if there are any captions/subtitles for the video. Choose the language you want for the subtitles. Available languages you can choose for the subtitles depend on the video uploaders.

With the caption/subtitle feature, viewers can have a better understanding of the video they are watching. The only problem with subtitles is how accurate the translation is.

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YouTube on Captions