Publishing Subtitles

The publish pages lets you do one of two things:

• Upload your subtitles to YouTube, thus publishing them to whoever sees the video on YouTube.
• Download the subtitles to your computer. Once you have a copy of the subtitles, you can do whatever you wish with them, including sharing them, or even uploading them to YouTube through YouTube's video management intefrace.

Uploading subtitles to YouTube

Based on YouTube policy, only the owner of a video is allowed to add subtitles (or captions) to it. So to be able to upload subtitles directly to YouTube, the following must be true:

• Of course, you need to be the owner of the video. If you're not the owner of the video, but know the owner - ask the owner to publish the subtitles. There's no way around this.
• You need to link your YouTube Subtitler account to your YouTube account so that we can send the subtitle upload request on your behalf. This can be done in the Settings Page.

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1. The top area shows subtitle information we retrieved from YouTube - in this case, the video doesn't have any subtitles. If there are subtitles, they will be listed here.
2. Fill in an optional name for the subtitle track and choose the subtitle language. By default, the language would already be filled based on the language specified when adding the video, so just make sure this is right.
3. Click the 'Upload' button, and you're done. The upload action takes a few seconds, but please note that it may take a few minutes until the subtitles are actually available on YouTube.

Downloading Subtitles

• YouTube compatible - this is a simple format that's used in YouTube's help article Adding and editing captions / subtitles (Look for the section 'Preparing a Caption File').
• SubRip (*.srt) format - this is a common format that's being used by many video player applications and streamers.

Note: Because of a limitation in the SubRip format - you need to specify the encoding to be used for the downloaded file. If you're not sure what this means, just use the provided default (and skip the next sentence). This is not needed for YouTube compatible format, as it's always UTF-8 encoded.