Add captions to your video on Workplace
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You can add captions to videos that you create. You can do this by either downloading auto-generated captions and then editing and uploading them, or by manually uploading captions.
Using automatic captions
To add captions using Workplace auto caption feature:
- From your timeline, group or News Feed click Photo/Video.
- Select the video you want to upload, then click Manage Captions.
- Click Auto-Generated Captions. Workplace will automatically recognize the language being spoken and create captions for you. This can take a few minutes depending on the length of the video.
- Click
Preview Captions to play the preview video. When you’re ready click Done.
- Say something about your video and then click Post.
Download and edit automatic captions
To download and edit automatic captions:
- First make sure you have generated automatic closed captions for your video.
- Go to your video and click
.
- Click Manage video captions.
- Click
next to the language of the auto-generated captions you want to download.
- Click Download captions.
Uploading manual captions using an .srt file
If you already have a .srt file that follows our naming convention and want to upload your own captions:
- From your timeline, group or News Feed click Photo/Video.
- Select the video you want to upload and click Manage Captions, then click Upload .SRT Files.
- Select the .srt caption file you want to upload and click
Preview Captions.
- Click Done.
- Say something about your video and then click Post.
Live Captions
You can also create live captions during a broadcast. If you're broadcasting, you can turn on live captions from Live Producer when you go live in a group.
If live captions are available for a live broadcast you are watching, you can turn them on by clicking Live captions are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and German. Learn more about Workplace Live.