Friday, January 02, 2026

Subtitling comedy videos got easier

I had a bit of a subtitles revelation today. I always used YT. It transcribed and then I would adjust but the subs editor sucked balls. Today I discovered that I can

  • upload video to YT
  • download transcription (just plain text)
  • fix transcription and put a blank line between every individual sub (you can still have multi-line subs)
  • re-upload to YT and it will do the timing perfectly (unless you want things like [laughter])
  • download the .srt file and burn that into the video to upload to insta etc

Subtitling a clip perfectly is now 3 minutes.