Comments on: YouTube Captions are “native” now

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:05:38 +0000

(nalts did make one of his captioned – Yay good start.)
http://closecaptioning.ofnalts.com/

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:40:19 +0000

I might do that. But the captions are made easily at Overstream.net.

Here’s a demo: http://www.overstream.net/tutorial/demo2.html

The captions can then be exported to .srt files, and added to your youtube videos.

By: nalts

nalts — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:59:49 +0000

You can certainly caption any of my 700 videos. It would be fun to caption my most popular ones. But I simply don’t understand how to make a .SUB or .SRT file manually… -Nalts (Youtube.com/nalts)

By: Bill Blass

Bill Blass — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:13:59 +0000

Mac users can use MovCaptioner to create .SUB and .SRT files quickly and easily for use with YouTube. Cost for s/w is only $25. Go to http://www.synchrimedia.com to download the demo version. I think it's a great idea to volunteer to caption videos for other video owners! Many people just don't have the time or the know-how to do it themselves.

By: Chicka Wolf

Chicka Wolf — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:01:29 +0000

I tried the new SubPLY service. not sure why they are offering this for free, but taking advantage of that while it lasts…
you simply submit the YouTube URL at http://www.subply.com/en/youtube/howto.htm and you get the captions.

By: Hulio Enrice

Hulio Enrice — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:59:27 +0000

There is a great new service by http://www.subply.com, promoting captioning in YouTube. They offer professionally produced closed captions in English and Spanish subtitles FREE OF CHARGE!!! within 24 hours you get the SRT file as well as en embed code you can use anywhere! they are amazing!

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:19:18 +0000

Here is a live version of Stevie Nicks singing Rhiannon – the best quality I could find.
She changed the words a little, so I had to listen carefully!
http://billcreswell.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/stevie-nicks-rhiannonwith-english-captions/

By: DS

DS — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:28:17 +0000

I would love to get a music video by ‘Fleetwood Mac’ onto my blog because my daughter’s name is part of that song “Rhiannon”.

Thanks,
DS

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:19:16 +0000

You may have to turn the captioning on in the video, buy clickin on the up arrow, and clicking on the red “CC” button.

I think if you are logged into youtube, it may retain that preference – I know I didn’t have to do it again.

Yes, you can export the.srt file from Overstream – from your own videos of course.

Go to Edit Overstream, Click “Tools”, and Click “Export Files as .SRT”, and choose the save to file option.

Save it, and go to your account (again, you can only add subtitles to your own videos), select the video you want to edit, click on “edit captions and subtitles”

Use the “choose” to select the file you just saved, add a random name, and select the language.

Press Upload.

If you have more trouble let me know – maybe a can make or find a good “tutorial” on it.

By: Stephen Hopson

Stephen Hopson — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:58:59 +0000

I’m a friend and subscriber to A Deaf Mom…….(Karen Putz). Found out about you through her.

Then I clicked on both links above in both FF and IE but did not see any captioning on either video. Is there a button that I need to click to “activitate” the captioning?

Also, I have several YouTube videos, a handful of which were captioned at Overstream. I went to one of them to see how I might export Overstream captions to YouTube but didn’t see anything at YouTube allowing that.

I haven’t gone to Overstream to see if I could import captioning over to YouTube yet – is this what you were talking about in your post?