The subtitle editor allows you to type your subtitles as you watch your video. If you don’t want to type up a separate subtitle file, you can also add them directly on YouTube using the subtitle editor. You can play the video to ensure they are timed and typed correctly.

The subtitles will display alongside your video.

Find your subtitle file and select it and hit Open.

Choose the With Timing or Without Timing option depending on what type of subtitle file you created.

On YouTube’s main page, go to Your Videos on the sidebar.

Once you have your subtitles typed, you can upload them to YouTube on your YouTube account following these steps: YouTube will automatically time your captions to match up with the audio. If you upload a video without timing, you can only upload. If you have more advanced subtitles to control placement or timecodes, these are the file types that should be uploaded: Basic subtitles can be uploaded with these caption file types:

This means that either the document will match up to timestamps or not, which dictates what file type you can upload.

You can upload a document either with timing or without timing. Keep in mind there’s also options to type them in on YouTube while you watch the video, so if you don’t want to type up captions this way or don’t have experience doing so, you can skip this step. Once you do this, you can then upload it to your YouTube video. If you want to add subtitles to your YouTube video, one option is to create a file with the subtitles typed up.

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