How to upload videos to YouTube

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YouTube captioning

For this captioning, a YouTube account is needed.

  1. To add captions to your video using YouTube, a transcript needs to be used.
  2. Do not use YouTube’s automated captioning feature.

Video with captions displayed for moment in time. The captions do not make sense - he's just like to monster infinite newman i saw your holidays it you can.
Figure 4: Example of YouTube’s automated captioning

Preparing your transcript

  1. When normally preparing a transcript for captioning, you would remove all the visual descriptions as these are not necessary for captions. However, to create the two tracks for OzPlayer the easiest method is to leave them in and only remove them right at the end.
  2. Remove the end of transcript signal.
  3. Resave the transcript as plain text (.txt)
    • Go to ‘Save As’ and change ‘Save as type’ to ‘Plain Text (*.txt)’ by using the dropdown.

Choosing to save your document as plain text with the save as type dropdown expanded and plain text selected.
Figure 5: Saving your transcript as plain text

Uploading your transcript

  1. Log into your YouTube account
  2. Select the Upload option

The lcoation of the Upload button on YouTube. Located directly after the Search feature.
Figure 6: YouTube Upload option
  1. Select the page to find the video you wish to upload.

With the process of how to upload videos onto YouTube. You select the link to prompt the pop up window to find the video you wish to download. Once found you select open.
Figure 7: Uploading your video to YouTube
  1.  Once the upload is complete, go to the YouTube Video Manager.
  2. Select the dropdown beside the ‘Edit’ button on your video
  3. From the dropdown menu, select ‘Captions’.

Uploads section in the video manager with the training video dropdown activated and Captions selected.
Figure 8: YouTube Captions Edit option
  1. Select ‘Add subtitles or CC’.

Showing the position of the Add sibtitles or CC link on YouTube for the training video
Figure 9: Prompting the adding caption features
  1. A dropdown will appear, select your language.
  2. Select ‘Upload a file’.
  3. Select your file type as ‘Transcript’ and then ‘Choose File’ to upload your transcript.

How to upload your transcript by selecting the choose file link to activate the pop up window to find the saved file and opening it.
Figure 10: Uploading your caption file
  1. Select ‘Upload’.
  2. Select ‘Set timings’.

How to get YouTube to set the approximate timings for the captions. Once the transcript is in the text box, selecting Set timings prompts this.
Figure 11: Transcript upload options