Non-Speech Captions

If you have a video without any speech, it is still important to add captions per the Non-Speech Elements guidelines (found in the Caption Quality Standards). You can do this a couple of ways:

Use a Sample Caption File

  1. Download a sample caption file:
  2. Edit the text as needed.
  3. Upload it as a caption file using the Uploading a Caption File to YouTube instructions.

Manually Create Non-Speech Captions

  1. When adding a file, click “Type manually”.
  2. Enter the non-speech information and adjust the time to 15 seconds:
    YouTube caption interface showing timing set at 15 seconds.
  3. Click “Publish”.