Introduction
These instructions will explain how to use YouTube to create an SRT caption file. An SRT caption file can be used in other media platforms such as Moodle My Media.
Steps to create SRT file
Upload video to YouTube
Navigate to the captions section of your video in YouTube
- Navigate to a video in YouTube that is in your YouTube account and ensure that you are logged in.
- Click the Edit Video button under the video.
- Click the Subtitles/CC tab at the top right.
Edit your captions
- Click on English (Automatic) to select the automatically generated captions.
If this section is blank you'll need to wait longer for YouTube to process the captions.
- Click on the Edit button in the top right to edit your captions. The automatically generated captions need human editing to fix any errors.
- When you're done editing your captions click the Save changes button.
- Once you've saved changes to the automatically generated captions it will save it as just 'English'.
Download the SRT caption file
- Select the captioning Language. If you have editted the automatically generated English captions you should see an 'English' entry.
- Click Actions and then '.srt' to download the SRT file.
- Now you should have the SRT file for the video. If you'd like instructions on how to add the SRT file to a video in My Media click here.
- If you'd like to convert the SRT file to a text transcript, you can do this here.