How To Add Captions To Multiple Facebook Post

Captions on Facebook videos boost accessibility and engagement. Did yous know that 85% of all Facebook videos are watched without audio? That is a ton of viewers that are going to want your video content captioned.

Gear up to become started? Here are the steps it takes to add together captions to your Facebook video!

How to Add Captions and Subtitles to Facebook Videos

ane. Mail your video to Facebook without captions

2. Paste a URL to your Facebook Video

Paste the URL of your Facebook video here. And then go through the Rev caption/subtitle gild process.

3. Rev will deliver your caption or subtitles file before long. You'll receive an e-mail when it's complete

iv. One time yous have your Rev explanation file, click "Edit this video" on your Facebook video

Yous may take to expand the mail service or hover over the thumbnail to encounter the choice. Y'all'll see a tab that says "Captions." Click that and you'll run across the options to either upload your SRT file or turn on the auto-captioning we mentioned before. Click "Upload file."

5. Confirm that your captions file meets Facebook'southward captions file naming convention

The Facebook naming convention looks like this: filename.[linguistic communication code]_[country lawmaking].srt. If you got your caption file from Rev, you don't have to worry! Merely upload.

6. Toggle the captions on and off, and review for quality

Need subtitles in other languages also English language? Rev'due south subtitle translation service translates English videos and adds subtitles in a diverseness of languages. This is smashing if you're trying to accomplish customers in other languages.

Why Add Captions & Subtitles to Facebook Videos?

For these reasons and others, many vloggers and other video content producers opt to add together their ain captions to Facebook videos. Only that caption integration requires some nuances. Facebook puts the burden of identifying the language in the captions on their users, likewise as adding the country code for the language'due south nation of origin. Fifty-fifty if yous merely have one captions file and Facebook knows your preferred language, the site doesn't automatically make the connection.

Facebook'due south Explanation Requirements

Facebook requires y'all to put a language suffix on all your caption files, even if your language is English. Someone in the US uploading a captions file in Spanish to a Facebook video needs to championship their file something like "captions.es_LA.srt". This is because even though the speaker is in the United states of america, and then are their viewers, the Spanish linguistic communication didn't originate here, so "LA" is the generic country code for Castilian.

When yous accept to upload captions to multiple versions of a video, or just just aren't paying attention, this pocket-size element can become a bit of a hassle. That's why we offer the pick of delivering your captions files with this save name already applied at no actress charge. Of course, since other sites don't have the same rules, you'll exist able to use the file on all your channels at one time, without having to remember to rename it.

Facebook ready captions from Rev

This might seem like a pocket-size detail, but it's got lots of our faithful customers excited that one less task is on their plate. Here's what our customers are maxim:

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Wrap-upwards

Engineering science is ever evolving, and perchance shortly adding closed captions to Facebook videos won't exist a chore. Until so, we've got your dorsum.

Rather have the captions added direct to your videos? Rev now offers burned-in captions (open captions). Just bank check the "burned-in captions" box at checkout and you lot'll receive a video with permanent, hard-coded captions added directly to your videos. Also available for foreign linguistic communication subtitles!

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