About chapters
Chapters are time-stamped video sections that the owner of a video can add for their viewers. Chapters are visible to anyone viewing your video and allow your viewers to jump to specific sections of your video. Please note that viewers of your video cannot add chapters.
Adding chapters using ScreenPal AI
If you have access to our AI feature, you can quickly add chapters to your video (as well as a video title, summary, and captions) using the ScreenPal AI tool.
For more information about our AI feature, please see our article titled ScreenPal AI.
1. To add AI-generated content, hover over a video thumbnail and click Manage.
2. On the Video Settings tab, click the ScreenPal AI button.
ScreenPal creates a title, video summary, chapters, and captions for the video:
3. You can edit the chapter or caption text by clicking it.
4. When your viewers visit the video watch page, they will also be able to click the Chapters menu and navigate to specific sections of your video:
Add chapters without ScreenPal AI
If you do not have access to our AI feature, you can manually add chapters in one of two ways.
Upload a captions file and add chapters
1. Scroll to the bottom of the Video Settings tab and select the Add captions from file checkbox, and then click the Upload file button next to it.
2. After you upload captions, you can insert a chapter anywhere you like by hovering over the Timeline, clicking the blue plus icon, and selecting Insert Chapter.
3. Enter your chapter title in the box:
4. Repeat these steps to add chapters throughout your video, and then click Save.
Manually enter captions and chapters
To add captions and chapters manually, or to add chapters to your video without adding a captions file first, follow the steps below.
1. On Video Settings, select the checkbox next to Manually add Captions, & Chapters, and then click Save & Continue.
2. A blank timeline is displayed for you. Click the blue plus icon and select Insert Caption or Insert Chapter.
3. Enter the timestamp at which you want the text to appear, and then enter the caption or chapter text.
4. Repeat these steps until you have added all the chapters and captions you like, and then click Save.