YouTube Caption fixing – down and dirty tutorial

YouTube’s Close Captioning results in word salad – but it’s easy to fix. Here is a pictorial on it – it’s not pretty, but hope it’s useful. Needed to do this in a hurry:

Step 1: Run Captions, let YouTube do its thing. When finished, play again and see result. Click Edit Captions and Subtitles.


Step 2:  Click The pencil to view the machine transcription

Step 3: I don’t bother editing here – I like to edit in my own software. Click the download button.

Step 3b. Download and save the SVB file.

Step 4. Edit the file in a plain text editing program like Notepad or  I use Notepad ++. Save it.

Step 5: Upload your file 

and name it

Step 6: Disable the YouTube word salad track

Done!

Step 7: Tweak colours and backgrounds