Author: Roberto Riaño
Have you ever seen a YouTube video whose subtitles feature a different color for each member? This provides great help when it comes to discerning who is speaking at all times. Sometimes when the subtitles of a video are activated, you can see how all of them are presented in white, without detailing who is the one speaking. This, on occasions, can be a mayor drawback or even prevent from differentiating the participants in the conversation. That’s especially true in the case of people with a functional diversity that makes it difficult or prevents them from using their sense of hearing.
Likewise, it’s something much easier to implement than it may seem, the only thing we would’ve to do is follow the steps detailed below.
First, we will have to download the Subtitle Edit tool, since it is very helpful and intuitive when it comes to generating subtitle files. We will first upload a video and include all subtitles as normal. After this we can select one of the lines of the subtitles and right clicking will give us the option to change the color of said text.
After applying the color, the text will look like this, worry not, the labels won't be seen in the final subtitles. We could also have directly added these tags to the text, although it is easier with the menu.
Then we can select all the colors we want and save the file in EBU STL format. If we save it with SubRib format, YouTube will not recognize the marks well and will put them as normal text.
When trying to save it, the following menu will appear, in which it is very important to select "teletext" in "Display standard code", since otherwise it is very possible that it will not work.
Now it only remains to upload them to YouTube like any other subtitle file and the colors will be seen in the text to which they have been applied.
This way we can take our subtitles to the next level and make them much more accessible for everyone.
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