Something else about SCC captions - I've had bad luck getting them to work with videos over 30fps. I'm pretty sure they are timed for TV broadcasts, so 25 or 30fps. Also, to make the captions scroll up, replace *94ae 94ae 9420 9420* with *94ad 9425* for two lines or *94ad 9426* for three lines. Also, I made a mistake and said that WebVTT captions has limited positioning support, when it turns out it has full positioning.
Seriously you don't know how influential and important this video is!!! Thank you SO much for teaching me about how to make the roll-up captions and how to have two captions appear side by side at the same time for the different speakers. OMG!!! edit: I just wanted to add that currently I use CADET for Roll-Up Captions, and it's free and everyone should search for it on RU-vid and then try it out, but I've always wanted to learn how to work with the SCC files directly.
Thank you! I'm glad there are other people who are into captions too 😂. I'll have to check out CADET. If they have support for roll-up, that might be a lot better.
holy hell! You are a Godsend! I've seen captions like these from Tom Scott (as mentioned) and others like Grian. I was really interested on how to add these to my videos and channels i manage. Not many videos like these exist, and this one was the most helpful! Thank you so much :D! That's a new subscriber right there!
It’s crazy that I landed here for exactly the same reason you made this video, at first I saw the video you say of Technology Connections, and then the one of Tom Scott. So I set a personal quest trying to find out how to change the actual RU-vid subtitle color in the file rather than in the platform itself. The problem is that neither the creator studio nor the support pages of the platform have an answer for this. I believed that a certain amount of subs must be surpass in order to unlock that function, but really that seems particularly odd. I’m beyond grateful for bringing this up, small channels with gold information are the one who make this platform a better place, regards from Argentina.
Thank you so much for you comment! It means a lot! That is weird that we followed the same path 😂 Yeah.. I wish they had more documentation on it. I also notice that you captioned all of your videos 😁😁
As someone who desperately was in the need of up their captioning game, this video is SO GOOD at compiling all the information I needed into a single place, its so good! You seriously deserve more attention mate keep it up
The amount of useful and practical information in this video is fabulously rich. I had to slow down from my usual 3.5x play speed down to 2.2x, to be able to fully process this content. I love how you went beyond technical stuff and even summed up the rules of captioning. All of that in just about 11.5 minute long video. Also the editing is really good. You got some really good potential here.
My goodness, this video has saved my life a lot of wasted time. I tried captioning my videos through Premiere and it's only resulted in frustration and time wasted, so I wanted to get into captioning straight through RU-vid. Usually this kind of stuff is easy to just google and quickly get a guide or site to find your answer in, but this topic in particular has very little information written about and it's all scattered around for some reason. I just found this video and it's exactly, word by word, all I wanted to know about captioning in a very simple and thorough manner. Thank you so much for your work 😊
Holy crap this is so cool! I literally just saw a music video with colour changing captions on mobile and then with a custom font on my laptop and thought that was sick!! Thank you for making this video and doing so much work for free!
Note to anyone who wants to learn how to make good captions: Don’t use scrollup. Roll-up captions are an animation; they force you to constantly spend all of your time looking at the captions. They’re terrible for nearly all kinds of content. Pop-on captions appear for a second or more and then disappear. The same thing applies to pop-on captions with no minimum gap. (“Blinkrate”; it should be two frames between each caption.) No minimum gap is an uninterrupted stream of captions that forces total attention, though it’s not as bad with all-centered captions. Last thing is-and this may come as a surprise to anyone who watches shows captioned by VITAC and even other companies (this bad practice is ridiculously popular)-don’t use two music notes and call that “music.” Just describe the music or don’t caption it at all. Even (music playing) or (music continues) is better. If you _do_ make up some way to justify using it to indicate music continuing, it doesn’t have to be nearly the entire duration of the instrumental music, and you don’t need to recaption them just because another caption interrupted it.
Like many over here, I found it interesting how creators could have multiple colors in their captions, or could move them around. I did some (limited) research, but quickly gave up. This video is super helpful, as it collected everything in one place and explained properly. Thanks a lot for making this!
Brooo I went to your channel to see if you had any videos for your OC and realized as soon as I saw the Leamon Puppy edit that I’d seen your channel before lol
I'm so glad I finally found a video that explain this! And your did it with such professionalism and in-dept, too. So I'm really thankful, it's always a wonder to me how JubyPhonic and Grian can have fancy-looking caption that can add so much atmosphere to the video. (Grian's video using different colour to highlight different people, Juby's music video where the caption can be made with such creativity that It can made certain effect such as glitching and shaking effect.)
For those glitching and shaking effects alongside more stylized subtitles on RU-vid, more often than not they're done through a specialized subtitle format called Advanced SubStation Alpha (which is highly used in the anime fansubbing community and those files are created using the free and open source software Aegisub) and then converting it into YTT (RU-vid Timed Text) via a program called YTSubConverter. With this you're able to get more creative with subtitles on RU-vid, such as adding karaoke styling or subtitle movement.
So just to make sure, are all the caption formats you detailed in this video compatible with RU-vid videos? I was recently trying to follow along with another RU-vid captioning video that used Subtitle Edit, but they used the STL format. Unfortunately, that one doesn't allow different font faces, which I am interested in using. SRT seems like the best one out of all of them, so I wanted to check if that one works perfectly fine with RU-vid captions?
RU-vid doesn't support all the features of these captions but they support all the formats... WebVTT doesn't support custom fonts on youtube specifically, but does in other places (unfortunately) Basically you can check this link:support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734698
As of today, RU-vid supports custom font faces (desktop only I think, I use RU-vid revanced so maybe that's why I don't have that?), colors, positioning and roll up. This info is only from my personal experience though and isn't backed by research.
SRV3 or YTT can make complex subtitle style too! I can't post link to the tutorial because RU-vid spam filter, but you can search "The First Complete Guide to RU-vid Captions (Old SRV3 Format)."
i tried uploading srt. file to yt, but for some reason it doesn't work with the formats like colors, font, alignment changes ect. and instead becomes a normal text. i wonder how to fix this?
The music video for "Internet Survivor" has one of the best subtitles I've ever seen, I still don't know what format of subtitles they used, but they used all possible resources.
I don't think there's an option for changing the background color of RU-vid subtitles from the creator's end (if there is I haven't found it). The default is the slightly transparent black and the user can change that in the closed captions menu in the youtube player.
@@SimonVideo Tengoku Daimakyou Opening Full 『innocent arrogance』 BiSH 【ENG Sub】 You must look this video, ı cant send link. They did it in this one. I couldn't understand it too
I think this video is pretty amazing, literally, captions are amazing and I never understand how some videos do that with captions! Like the captions in English of this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NTrm_idbhUk.html (recommended to watch in computer for the font change too, it's amazing how the creator of the English caption do that! And seeing how it's work it's incredible!) Thanks you for teaching us! This help me a lot with the web features + future proyects! Thx u!
I was thinking of making one on captions for youtube specifically, but I don't know if I'll make that right now.. I usually use Subtitle Edit and use EBU-STL captions.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IU-B8BdJb78.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IU-B8BdJb78.html... No I meant like in this video if you open Bangla subtitles, it has colors on it and whichever word comes, it becomes red. Something like that
Hey, great video! One think I couldn't do was export it to youtube subtitles, the text is appearing like this "...", it seems like its appearing only the code, what do have to do so the font is applied? tried srt and sbv but both are doing the same. Also the colors aren't working, don't know if i missed something.
I exported it but the colours and fonts didn't work. How do I export it while keeping all these things? edit: turns out the SRT works, but only on mobile, do you know how to fix it?
Very, very important video for me and probably many others! Has anyone had any success with using webvtt to create roll-up captions? I would love captions that display word-by-word AND roll-up, exactly like RU-vid’s auto-captions do.
That would be really nice.. unfortunately youtube still doesn't support roll up captions with WebVTT.. (support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734698) You *could* use SCC captions each word a separate caption and add the roll-up code at rhe end of it.. just don't add the code for a new line and it should just add it to the end of the current line. I don't know if that's a good explanation or not..
@@SimonVideo Hey Simon- would you please be able to try this out and see if it works? I don’t have Windows, so I can’t use Subtitle Edit, sadly. I hope your suggestion works because it sounds awesome!! I would be happy to give you a donation in exchange for your trying it out! Let me know if that sounds good by you!
@@SimonVideo Hi, thanks for your great video! I just wonder how to do these colored and formatted captions nowadays because the method in the video doesn't work very well for me. I tried creating colored captions and on some devices, it doesn't show the colors at all, while on others there are the codes readable that have been inserted into the captions. Do you know a good program and a good file format that lets me make colored captions that are fully functional on all devices? Thank you in advance.
You can actually do HTML tags (like for bold) and most players will handle it and add the formatting.. Apparently it's an unofficial method but it works fine.
I used STL for this video. Are you using Subtitle Edit? Also, try opening the video in VLC after you make it and enabling captions by right clicking and enabling it... this will make sure the coloring worked. If your are uploading to RU-vid, make sure you don't touch the captions at all once you upload the file or else the formatting gets removed.
@@SimonVideo But as you mentioned the software dosent support roll up and the for the alignment it only gives 9 Positions, but, if I understood it correctly, SCC supports more positions. so is there an Software that Supports all things css can do.
i wonder how you can add a background to captions, if you turn it on in this video linked below it has background, which i've never seen before ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lMEt3RdqB9Y.html (bg starts at 22 seconds) edit: found another one made by the creator of the last video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EHBFKhLUVig.html
@@SimonVideo oh also, i found this video too (look at captions) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EHBFKhLUVig.html edit: found the dude, his name is seinai_z
A few more comments on the information in this video. Your statements about verbatim captions aren’t really true. Verbatim captioning means that every word that’s spoken is captioned, not that every single sound effect is captioned. A bird chirping, if completely irrelevant to what’s going on, wouldn’t be captioned. Relevant sound effects should still be captioned in edited captions, which I’ll talk about below. The opposite of verbatim captioning is edited captions; this isn’t as common as it used to be, but some captioners remove words (or even characters) because they think deaf people can’t read past a certain reading rate. National Captioning Institute and other old-school captioning firms have moved past this and caption verbatim now; Netflix still edits captions down to 20 characters per second. You said that captions can be positioned on a 3x3 grid; this isn’t true. Captions can go anywhere onscreen, though Subtitle Edit and a lot of other amateur software doesn’t support this. (I might make captioning software with this and other Line 21 features.) It’s a little clunky with RU-vid’s system. Another thing is that you’ve recommended the Rev captioning service. This sounds like an exaggeration, but trust me when I say that their captioning service is a disgrace. Their captioners are unqualified already (no, taking a third-grade grammar test and getting 30-second clips of your work called acceptable isn’t being qualified), and worse yet, I could write an entire essay on the things wrong with their caption style guide. For example, they don’t even cover captioning speech inflections and used to explicitly _forbid_ captioners from using it, their argument being that “some nuance in lost in captioning,” which is only true if you’re a lousy captioner. CaptionPlus is decent, from what I’ve seen; I can’t comment on that as much. I know they captioned some Tom Scott videos.
