Adding Closed Captions to Facebook Videos

Captioning your own Facebook videos is easy with CaptionSync. Facebook provides a mechanism for video owners to upload a caption file along with their video file. The caption file can be added at any time. This tutorial shows how this is done.

Adding Closed Captions to your Video:

• Submit your video for Captioning in your CaptionSync account. Once results become available, download the .srt caption file.

• Log into your Facebook account and upload the video as you normally would. Click Post.

• When the video is ready, it will show on the Timeline. Hover over the video, click Options, and then Edit This Video:

• Click Choose File to browse for the .srt file you just downloaded from CaptionSync. Finally click Save.

• To watch captions being displayed, hover over the Settings icon and check the Captions box:

You can add multiple caption files to each video. If you need captions in other languages, check out our Translation service.

Adding Closed Captions to your Page's video:

• Submit your video for Captioning in your CaptionSync account. Once results become available, download the .srt caption file.

• Log into your Facebook Page's account and upload the video as you normally would. Click Publish.
  
• When the video is ready, it will show on the Timeline. Go to Publishing Tools, and under Video Library browse for your video and click Edit Video.
  

• Click Subtitles & Captions (CC) in the right-side column, and select the Language the video is on. Then, click Upload, next to Add New Captions, and browse for the .srt file you just downloaded from CaptionSync.

• Finally, click Save.
  
  
• To watch captions being displayed, hover over the Settings icon and turn the Captions ON.