- Adding subtitles to your videos is a great way to increase your reach and keep your audience engaged. Did you know that 85% of Facebook
videos are watched on mute and only two thirds of Snapchat videos are watched with the sound on. That's an entire third
of all Snapchat content consumed on mute. So if you don't add
subtitles to your videos you're missing out on a
lot of potential viewers. And that's why in this video we're going to show you
how to easily add subtitles to any video in just a few minutes. Hi, everyone, my name is Alec. And on this channel, we teach
you anything and everything you need to know about
video content creation. And in this specific video I'm going to be showing
you how to add subtitles to a video online. Now, the tool we're going
to be using to do this is an online video editor called Veed. Veed allows you to edit
video, add pictures, add music, add easy music
visualizes, and a lot more. But in this video, we're
going to be taking a look at Veed's automatic subtitle tool. Veed's automatic subtitle tool allows us to transcribe the audio
of our video into text and it turns that text into subtitles with the correct timestamps. To get started, all you have to do is head over to veed.io
and create a new project. Once you've created a new project, what we're going to do
next is upload our video. So here, we're just going
to click on upload the file and then we're going
to browse our computer and select a video that we
want to add subtitles to. So I'm going to select
this Instagram story. Now, obviously we can
select any video you want, any aspect ratio you want. Just select it and click
open and as we can see, it's now imported into
Veed's video editor. And if we take a look, we can now see it in our video editor. And if I decide to press play. Hey Instagram, I hope
you're all doing well. I've just posted to my feed,
so go and check out the post. As you can see, this is an Instagram story that I want to add subtitles to. So for good practice, the
first thing I'm going to do is just quickly name my project. I'm just going to click here
and type Instagram Story just like so. Now, to begin adding
subtitles to our video, all we have to do is
click on the Subtitle tab in the left toolbar, and then here we're going to be selecting the Auto Transcribe tool. So we're going to click on this to automatically add
subtitles to our video. Now you can go ahead and
add subtitles manually or upload a subtitle file
that you've already created. But again, we're creating
subtitles from the video's audio so we're going to
automatically generate them. So we're going to click on
auto transcribe right here. So now we're prompted to
just select the language that we are talking in within our video, and in this video, we're
speaking in English. But if you are speaking in
French, Spanish, German, Chinese, you can go ahead and select the language that you are talking in right
here in this drop down menu and then click on start. And then once you've clicked on start, Veed is going to take
anywhere between a few seconds to a few minutes, depending
on the length of your video, to automatically transcribe all
of the audio from your video and turn that audio into subtitles. So as we can see now, it's just finished. And if we take a look, we can see the subtitles
in three different places. First of all, we can see them in the left subtitle editor right here. Then we can see them in the timeline at the bottom of the screen. And then we can also see
them on the video canvas. So the first thing we're going
to want to do is go through and check all of our subtitles. Now to do this, we're just
going to bring your play head back to the beginning. And if I press play. Hey Instagram, I hope
you're all doing well. I've just posted to my feeds
to go and check out the post on my profile. And if you enjoy it, don't
forget to hit the like button. Maybe leave a comment, let
me know what you think of it. And if you really liked it, maybe share it with some friends. I appreciate it. So as you can see, we now have subtitles and straight from the beginning,
we noticed a few mistakes. But I'm going to show you how I can easily and quickly fix these
mistakes straight away. So as we can see here, the first subtitle, it says hence the gram
instead of, Hey Instagram. This is because in my video I kind of slur the two words
together and I talk very fast. So all I have to do is
click on the subtitle that I want to change and I can edit it as if it
was normal text anywhere else. So I'm just going to type,
Hey Instagram, just like so. So now as you can see,
I've got, Hey Instagram. The next thing I want to change is the two following subtitles. I want to turn them into one subtitle, because it says, I hope you're all doing and then well in another. However, we're just going
to cut this right here, paste it at the end of this subtitle. I'm going to make this a lowercase W. And then I'm going to copy this
time right here, delete it, and then make this subtitle
end add that subtitle's time, just like so. If we take it from the
timeline, you can see it change. So now if I press play. Hey Instagram, I hope
you're all doing well. I've just posted to my feed so go and check out
the post on my profile. And then there's one last
mistake that I want to fix and that's just the feeds. Here, I want to make it feed. So if I just quickly double click on this and then I just take the S off, I've just posted to my
feed so go check it out. And that is how to edit
these subtitles text. I also want to show you that if you want, you can also edit the duration just by clicking and dragging, instead of customizing the timestamps for each and every one. You can also quickly
click and drag them around just like so. However, I'm going to leave the timing for all my subtitles right now. Now the next thing you may want to do is customize the style of your subtitles. And to do this, we're just going to click
on the Style tab right here. And let's just say, I
want to change the font, I can change the font to Anton. And now all of my subtitles
will adopt the style, so I don't have to change each
individual text one by one. I also want to mention that at the bottom we also have a bunch of presets. And one of my favorites is this white text with the black drop shadow and then we also have this
yellow with the black outline, which helps it stand out a lot more. I also want to mention
that you can just click and drag the subtitles
on the screen around and place them anywhere you want, and then just quickly
click and drag to resize, just like so. And that is how to customize
the style of your subtitles. Now, once you've finished adding the subtitles to your video, the next step is to download
your video with the subtitles. Now, if you're looking
to download the subtitles as a separate SRT file, so you can upload them as closed captions to a platform such as Facebook or YouTube, to do so it's very simple. Here we can head into the Options tab and then right here, we have the Download Subtitles section. And here I can choose the format that I want to download them as. SRT format is the most common, it stands for SubRip Subtitle. And then all I have to do is just click on the
Download button right here. And as you can see, we now have the file
downloaded to our computer. Now, I also want to mention that I can quickly translate these. So for example, I can add a subtitle track and then Veed will
automatically translate the text into another language. And this can be very useful, for example, when it comes to increasing your international audience
on your YouTube channel. Let's say you want to
reach a wide audience in France And in Spain, you can then begin adding French subtitles and Spanish subtitles to your videos. But because this is an Instagram story and we can't upload close
captions with an Instagram story, we want to burn the
subtitles into the video. And to do this, it's
very simple well to do. Right here, once I'm
happy with my subtitles and the way they look on my video, all I'm going to do is
click on Export in top right and then this export
menu pops up right here. And as we can see, we want to make sure before
we click Export Video, we have this Burn Subtitles toggled on. So right here, as you can
see, if I hover over it, it says include the subtitles
in the rendered video instead of a separate file. So if I have this toggled
on, now if I click export, Veed is then going to render my video with the subtitles burnt in or hard-coded into the actual MP4 file. So when I download it and then upload them to my Instagram story, those
subtitles will be visible. And that is how to add subtitles to any video online using Veed. Now, I'm curious to know, once
you've added the subtitles are you going to be downloading
them as a separate SRT file so you can add them as close captions, or are you burning your
subtitles into the video? Let me know in the comment
section down below, I'm curious to find out. And that is the video for today. If you've got some value from this video and you learn something,
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