The difference between subtitle and caption :
- Captions include subtitles plus a written description of what is occurring in their videos for viewers who might not be able to hear or understand the sound.
- Subtitles provide viewers with a video’s dialogue in written form and can be used to translate the spoken language.
The benefit of adding subtitle to videos:
- 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.
Subtitle formats:
- There are many subtitles formats, such as SRT, WebVTT, DFXP/TTML, SCC, and SAMI files, but the most commons file is SRT.
What is SRT file:
- SubRip caption files are named with the extension .SRT. This format is supported by most video players and subtitle creation programs. The time format used is hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds, with the milliseconds field precise to three decimal places. The purpose of srt subtitle file is to be used with desired movie file together to display subtitles when you play video file by any player supporting srt subtitles. If your video doesn’t include any subtitles, you can create and add a .srt file to your video.
How to create SRT file:
Add subtitle in Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/help/faq/managing-your-videos/captions-and-subtitles#what-caption-and-subtitle-file-formats-does-vimeo-support
Add subtitle in YouTube
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en
To add new subtitles or closed captions to a video:
- Go to your Video Manager.
- Next to the video you want to add captions or subtitles to, click the drop-down menu next to the Edit button.
- Select Subtitles and CC.
- In the drop-down menu, choose the language that's spoken most in the video and click Set language.
- Note: If you change the setting for the original language of your video, all future translated subtitles will use the new language as the source for translations (your published and draft subtitles and closed captions won't be affected).
- Click the Add subtitles or CC button.
- Choose the language for the subtitles or closed captions you want to create. You can use the search bar to find languages that don't automatically show in the list.
- If you choose a language that you've already started working on, this will take you directly to your draft and you can start adding content again.
- Choose how you want to add subtitles or closed captions to your video:
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