If you need to give the text different break points that the auto-captioning provided, you can add another text box between two existing boxes of text - provided that there is a time-gap. When you spot a passage of text that needs corrected or needs punctuation, pause the video and correct the passage of text in the editable area on the left. Watch the text on the left as the video plays. Duration the text appears on the screen.The text boxes below the video are used for changing:.The text boxes on the left are used for:.Observe: The text is shown in two places: It will load the work area, but the areas you'd edit are grayed out On your 'Creator's Studio' page, access the 'Edit' dropdown menu for the video that you want to add captions & select “Subtitles/CC”Ĭlick the Published captions labelled 'English (Automatic)' You have a grasp of sentence structure and punctuation in the language used in the video.(Auto captions do not immediately generate.) The video has been completely uploaded/processed for greater than an hour.You are logged into your YouTube account.You are on a laptop/desktop computer with headphones (or speakers).

How to add captions to youtube videos