How to Automatically Add Captions to Facebook Video: 3 Best Ways

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Last Updated: 2023. 01. 03

With up to 85% of Facebook videos being consumed with the sound off, adding captions to Facebook videos proves to be a great strategy to make your Facebook videos easily accessible to more viewers who are often on the go or in public and quiet places and help you get more likes, comments, and shares.

Here, in this tutorial, we will walk you through 2 great ways to automatically add captions to Facebook videos. So, you can add either closed captions or open captions to your Facebook video in a breeze.

Here is what you will learn:

How to Add Captions to Facebook Videos Using SRT Files

How to Add Captions to Facebook Videos for Business Accounts

Great Workaround: Automatically Add Captions to Facebook Videos Online

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Here is a quick takeaway for adding Facebook video captions:

If you are using a personal Facebook account, currently, you can upload an SRT file to add closed captions to the Facebook video. So, viewers can click the CC icon (closed captions) to watch your Facebook video with the captions on.

If you have a Facebook business account, you can go to the Creator Studio and use the Auto-generate Captions feature to automatically add captions to Facebook videos and Reels. And later you can proofread the auto-generated captions or subtitles. Alternatively, you may also upload an SRT file for Facebook video captions.

How to Add Captions to Facebook Video Using SRT Files

For most individual Facebook users, Facebook allows you to directly upload an SRT file to your Facebook video to add captions to the Facebook video. So, here is how to add captions to a Facebook video in the Facebook Feed.

Step 1

Go to your Facebook homepage on the browser and click Photo/Video to import your Facebook video from your computer.

Upload your video to Facebook.

Step 2

Add captions to the Facebook video.

Click the Edit button to the top left corner of the video > click the dropdown arrow of Add Captions > upload the SRT file for your video > click Save. You may also upload an image or choose a still frame from your video for the thumbnail of your Facebook video.

Upload an SRT file for the closed caption of the Facebook video.

Bonus: Properly name the SRT file for Facebook video captions.

To upload an SRT file for Facebook video captions, the name of the SRT file should follow the following format: file name.[language code]_[country code].srt. For example: a birthday video.en_US.srt.

Step 3

Turn on the captions on the Facebook video.

After your Facebook video was published, now you can click the CC icon and select the subtitle language available for your Facebook video. You may also click the Options button to customize the background color, background opacity, text color, and text size of the Facebook video caption.

Customize the details for Facebook video captions.

To add captions with languages more than English to Facebook videos, just repeat the first two steps and upload SRT files in different languages.

How to Add Captions to Facebook Videos for Business Accounts

If you are running your Facebook business account and want to add captions to Facebook videos, you can use the Auto-generate Captions option in the Creator Studio. Here is how to do it.

Step 1

Go to your Facebook business page > click Meta Business Suite on the left side menu > All tools > Creator Studio.

Step 2

In the Creator Studio, Click Create New > hit Upload Video in the scroll-down menu > upload your Facebook video and add a video title and description, and thumbnail > in the Media Optimizations, click Captions and Facebook will auto-generate captions for your Facebook video.

Auto-generate Facebook video captions for Facebook business accounts.

Step 3

Click the Review button to proofread the auto-generated captions with exact timestamps or click Adjust Time to adjust the start and end times of the selected captions > click done and publish it.

Proofread the auto-generated Facebook video captions on Facebook.

You may also upload an SRT file for your Facebook video captions as well. After your Facebook video is published, you can click the CC button to turn on the closed captions on your Facebook video.

Great Workaround: Automatically Add Captions to Facebook Videos Online

Well, if you don’t have SRT files for your Facebook videos nor do you have a Facebook business account to enjoy Facebook’s auto-caption feature. Then, a great workaround to add captions to Facebook videos is using the versatile FlexClip online video maker.

Automatically generate captions for Facebook videos with FlexClip auto AI subtitle generator.

With FlexClip, you can use its auto AI subtitle generator to automatically add open captions to your Facebook videos with a single click. So, the viewers can directly watch your Facebook video with captions on without using the CC button because the captions are burned into the video.

Besides, FlexcClip can automatically transcribe 140+ languages with different accents to text with up to 99% accuracy. You can easily split and merge subtitles and stylize the auto-generated captions with more options than on Facebook.

Automatically transcribe 140 languages to text with up to 99% accuracy.

So, now let me walk you through how to add captions to Facebook videos by FlexClip online.

Step 1

Access FlexClip and upload your Facebook videos from your PC, phone, Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, or even from Instagram and Facebook, etc.

Upload your Facebook video to FlexClip.

Step 2

Click the plus sign to add your Facebook video to the intuitive timeline. You can trim or split clips when needed.

Add your Facebook video to the timeline.

Step 3

Automatically add captions to Facebook videos.

Click the Subtitle tab > Auto AI Subtitle > select the source language in your video > choose the subtitle styles. No worries, you can change it later. > hit the Generate Subtitles button. Then, FlexCllip shall auto-generate the subtitles with exact timestamps for your Facebook video. How long it may take depends on your video length and bandwidth.

Auto-generate captions for your Facebook video by FlexClip.

As you wait for the completion of auto-generated Facebook video captions, please feel from to browse through the helpful and designer-made video templates for promo and other purposes. You can drag and drop your video assets to customize them into a compelling Facebook video in minutes.

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Step 4

Proofread auto-generated captions and customize the style.

You can skim through the auto-generated captions for any misspellings and correct them. If one subtitle seems too long, you can press Enter to split it or merge two short subtitles.

Proofread auto-generated Facebook video captions and split or merge subtitles.

Click the Styles tab, you can customize the text fonts, size, color, alignment, opacity, and bold or italics and the color and opacity of text background fill, etc. Pretty convenient!

Customize the styles of Facebook video captions.

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Step 5

Add royalty-free music, sound effects, and other video effects. (optional)

If your Facebook book video needs great music, sound effects, text animations, and other video effects to create the vibes. You may click the Audio tab to select from 74,000+ music tracks and sound effects for your video and click the Text, Elements, and Overlays tab to add eye-catching animated texts, GIPHY stickers, illustrations, and effect overlays, etc. to take your Facebook video to a whole new level.

Add royalty-free music, SFX, and other video effects to your Facebook video.

Also, read how to add custom music to Facebook Story.

Step 6

Preview and share.

Done with the editing. You can download the FHD video with burned-in captions to your hard drive or share it to YouTube, Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox, or TikTok; a clickable link and an embed code are also available for your blogs, newsletters or other repurposing.

Share Facebook videos with captions in multiple ways.

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So, with these AI-powered voice recording to text converters, you no longer need to waste tons of time typing out every word to get the transcript. Feel free to experiment with all these 4 tools. For creating videos, FlexCLip has the edge over others. If you find this post helpful, do share it on your Facebook or Twitter and leave your thoughts to us. Much appreciated!

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Passionate about photography, video-making and travel, Frank is a seasoned copywriter and a beloved father of 2-year-old daughter at FlexClip. He is always keen to share his latest discovery about video marketing and tricks to relive your memories through videos and images.