Before resorting to the web tool, which we can access from the address, you will have to copy the link of the YouTube video whose subtitles we want to extract. If that’s the case though, you probably couldn’t do videos in a second language in the first place.How to Turn Video into a Blog Post | Transcribe Videos File to Text | YouTube Subtitles Download How to Download YouTube Subtitles in SRT and TXT FormatĪmong all the pages that exist to download subtitles from YouTube, Savesubs is the most recommended for its simplicity and ease of use, as well as for the downloading options it offers, since we can choose the output format of the text files (SRT and TXT). So in terms of intuitiveness and SEO, YouTube wins out, but it’s still a risk because you have to tell viewers to turn the subtitles on, and that tiny little nuisance may be enough for them to stop watching. I had to keep copy pasting the captions, I couldn’t easily just add a new one, but it is there and you can turn it on and off when exporting your video. However, the captions function in FCPX is nowhere near as intuitive as the YouTube version. I started by adding the subtitles through normal titles, before I realised that FCPX had a captions function. There are a few reasons for this, but the biggest reason is that it’s also a way to add to your SEO, and a good one at that.įor my latest video, probably 3/4 is in Japanese so requires subtitles. I just forgot how tedious the process was, but now I think I know the best system.Īll things considered, it’s best to use the YouTube subtitles function, rather than adding subtitles in your video editing software.
I’m a translator so am fine with the language, for the most part, where I’m not I have ways of checking (just ask your wife), and I’ve put subtitles on both my own and another person’s videos before.
One thing I was quite naive about for my latest video was the sheer effort needed to put the subtitles on.
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