The quickest and most efficient way to add captions to videos is using a captioning service.

How to add closed captions to facebook video. With this update publishers using the Live API can now add CEA-608 standard closed captions to Facebook Live broadcasts opening up those videos to audiences who are deaf or hard of hearing. On the Playback tab click the Insert Captions button and then select Insert Captions. Over the past year daily watch time for Facebook Live broadcasts has grown by more than 4x and 1 in 5 Facebook videos is a Live broadcast.

This video explains how to d. If you are then thats it your video captions are ready. Rev provides everything you need to add captions and subtitles to videos of all lengths and formats.

You then need to. Click in the top right of Facebook. In the window that appears click Select file and find the SRT file you wish to upload.

In the Insert Captions dialog browse to your caption file. Adding Closed Captions to a Facebook Video After Upload Click on your video to expand it Click Options and select Edit This Video from the menu Click Choose File to select your SubRip srt file. Current events have us all feeling isolated and the feeling is only intensified for Deaf and HoH people who encounter un-captioned video content everywhere they look.

Select the file and then click Insert. Scroll down and click Videos in the left column. Once you have uploaded your video to Facebook either click Edit if it already has fully uploaded or you have already shared it to your page or the Subtitles and Captions tab if you are uploading fresh.

Rev now offers burned-in captions open captions. Select the video on the slide. First choose the language you want your captions to be in and click Confirm To check out the auto-generated captions in the chosen language open your video in a new tab.