Upload captions
Captions
Our app enables you to create and upload captions and add them to your video. These captions are displayed on the screen in real time as the video plays, enabling those who cannot hear or understand the audio to access the content within a video.
Looking for how to add captions using our Video Editor? Click here.
Adding captions to a hosted video
1. Log into your account via our website.
2. Click My content at the top of the page.
3. Hover over a video thumbnail and click Details.
4. The video opens in the preview area with the Video Details tab and other tabs displayed on the right. Scroll to the bottom of the Video Details tab.
5. Click Captions from File.
6. Select your desired caption file language from the menu:
7. Click Upload File.
8. Navigate to the applicable captions file on your computer, select it, and then click Open.
Our app enables you to create and upload captions and add them to your video. These captions are displayed on the screen in real time as the video plays, enabling those who cannot hear or understand the audio to access the content within a video.
Looking for how to add captions using our Video Editor? Click here.
Adding captions to a hosted video
1. Log into your account via our website.
2. Click My content at the top of the page.
3. Hover over a video thumbnail and click Details.
4. The video opens in the preview area with the Video Details tab and other tabs displayed on the right. Scroll to the bottom of the Video Details tab.
5. Click Captions from File.
6. Select your desired caption file language from the menu:
7. Click Upload File.
8. Navigate to the applicable captions file on your computer, select it, and then click Open.
The captions file is added to the video.
Note: You can also enter captions manually by clicking the Manually Add button. For more information, please see our How to Add Captions tutorial.
Supported files
We currently support the upload of .srt, .sub, and .vtt files.
Supported languages for captions
Abkhazian, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bihari, Bislama, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China), Chinese (Simplified Han), Chinese (Singapore), Chinese (Taiwan), Chinese (Traditional Han), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dinka, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), Dzongkha, English, English (Canada), English (Ireland), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Belgium), French (Canada), French (Switzerland), Galician, Georgian, German, German (Austria), German (Switzerland), Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Interlingue, Inupiaq, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kalaallisut, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Moldavian, Mongolian, Nauru, Nepali, Northern Sami (Lulesamisk), Norwegian, Occitan, Oriya, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Persian (Afghanistan), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Samoan, Sango, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tonga, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapük, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu
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