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- Subtitles enable deaf and hard of hearing users to watch videos. This is important for all video publishers especially educational institutions who need to comply with accessibility laws and internal policies.
- They also act as metadata that helps your videos show up in more places on YouTube.Closed captions and subtitles provide an on-screen reading guide for those viewers who find it difficult to hear what’s happening on-screen or who speak a different language.
Subtitle formats:
- There are many subtitles formats, such as SRT, WebVTT, DFXP/TTML, SCC, and SAMI files, but the most commons file is SRT. SubRip caption files are named with the extension .SRT. This format is supported by most software video players and subtitle creation programs. The time format used is hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds, with the milliseconds field precise to three decimal places.
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