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Twitter allows the publication of various types of multimedia content on its platform, including photos, GIFs, and videos up to two minutes and 20 seconds long for regular users not subscribed to Twitter Blue. Moreover, an additional feature of the social network is that it also allows users to files the video may include digital captioning from the system.
Unlike video subtitles which are present on other social networks like Youtube oh ICT Tac, which are automatically generated and may include machine translations, Twitter requires these captions to be created by users. This content must also be published alongside the videos so that they can be displayed digitally without the need to modify the original video for them to be present.
To create effective subtitles that can be published on Twitterusers should make a full transcript of all audio in the video using Notepad app the Windows. Once this step has been completed, each sentence should be divided into sequences with numerical order, timecode and appropriate number of words which can be easy for users to read.
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The format that users must follow for the creation of guidelines for the Subtitles people need to be able to identify a sequence by using a number and naming the quantity needed. In addition, it must have a sentence start and end time (it must have a maximum of 32 characters to be more precise and readable) and a blank space between each one, so that the system can identify them easily.
Once the transcription content using the given format, users should save the file with an appropriate name and include the name of the extension at the end “.srt” indicating that it is a subtitle file. In the field indicating the Format of the document to be saved, users will need to select the option “All the files”.
Once this whole procedure is done, people will have to go back to Twitter and upload the video they will post. In the pre-publish window, you will see an option called “Download the subtitle file (.srt)» on which you will have to click. This will open a ventilation emerging system in which the file can be loaded Subtitles which was generated previously.
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After being downloaded alongside the archive From videothe captions will have been digitally embedded into the original video, which will start showing boxes with a dark background in which the caption texts are embedded. transcripts.
After being downloaded alongside the video filethe captions will have been digitally embedded into the original video, which will start showing boxes with a dark background in which the caption texts are embedded. transcripts. The language in which the original file is written will automatically appear at the bottom. People should then edit the text that will accompany the video post and then press the button Twitter.
After following these steps, published videos will display subtitles without the need for users to activate the bottom of the image.
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If people want, this process can be replicated in different post, well is not an exclusive feature, but can be performed by any user of the social red. This feature is currently only available for use on the web version of the platform, not on the mobile app.
In this way, users can help their videos reach other people with the best possible quality and without errors that may affect the understanding of the content of archive published media.