Youtube's support page contains some info on the caption file or .SBV file format but fails to mention a few important details.
Below is an example of a bit of an SBV file I recently made. This can be made in any text editing program (notepad/textedit/etc.) provided you save it as a plain text file with the .SBV extension.
You'll notice the first line of each new caption has the start time and end time. These times are seperated by a comma (no spaces) in the format H:MM:SS.000 with milliseconds after the decimal point.
This is followed by a line break and then the text (each line on a new line). A blank line (2 line breaks) indicates the end of the caption and the start of the next time code. *This is very important* If you miss this blank line then youtube doesn't seem to understand your SBV file.
0:05:40.000,0:05:46.000
Don’t think that you can just ignore them
because they’re not your children or relatives.
0:05:46.000,0:05:51.000
Because every child in our society is
a part of that society.
0:05:51.000,0:05:55.000
We should give them opportunities
and only good things,…
0:05:55.000,0:05:59.000
…so that they can grow up to be
good adults in the future.
0:06:31.000,0:06:36.000
Produced by
HOTS (Heart of the Street)
www.hots-th.org
Don’t think that you can just ignore them
because they’re not your children or relatives.
0:05:46.000,0:05:51.000
Because every child in our society is
a part of that society.
0:05:51.000,0:05:55.000
We should give them opportunities
and only good things,…
0:05:55.000,0:05:59.000
…so that they can grow up to be
good adults in the future.
0:06:31.000,0:06:36.000
Produced by
HOTS (Heart of the Street)
www.hots-th.org
Easy as that!
You may also want to convert the SBV file to the SRT format (which is used by VLC and Subtitle Workshop).
Gideon Goldberg has made a great little online converter tool that does just this - www.gidsgoldberg.com
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