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This is dirt cheap at $0.25 per minute of video, but will of course require some tweaking on your part. Rev also offers a cheaper option, using automatic voice recognition rather than a human transcriber. If you must know, Facebook is picky about the naming convention of the file. We recommend ‘.srt (Facebook)’ which will work for any platform as far as we can tell. Then you can proofread/tweak the captions if necessary, and download them in your chosen format. (I’ll get $10 if you sign up via that link, but it’s still a genuine recommendation.) One of Rev’s army of transcribers will add subtitles for you, at a cost of $1.50 per minute of video. Simply sign up for an account with Rev.com and upload your video file. Until the fairly recent arrival of Premiere’s speech-to-text feature, this was our preferred process when creating captions for clients. It’ll cost you money, but not as much as you might think.

If you’re not using Premiere, we would recommend using Rev. You can also use Premiere to create your burnt-in subtitles (Open Captions). Create your captions, then correct any errors and export an SRT file directly from the Text panel. If you use Adobe Premiere, we would strongly recommend using the excellent built-in auto transcription feature. Keep reading to find out the easiest way to add subtitles to your video, either as an SRT file or as Open Captions. Instead, for these platforms the subtitles will need to either be ‘burnt on’ to the video or automatically generated in the app. Unfortunately, at the time of writing Instagram and TikTok don’t allow you to add an SRT caption file. In other words, your subtitles will be easily legible on a mobile screen, but won’t be distractingly large on a TV or computer monitor. Another advantage is that the text size will adapt to suit the size of the video window. If they want to watch with audio and not be distracted by subtitles, no problem.

This is our preferred approach as it gives the user more control. (No, I don’t know what that means either.) This file can be attached during the upload process, or added later. This is how Closed Captions appear on Facebook on mobile.įacebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter allow for Closed Captions, in the form of an SRT file.

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