Edit or remove captions

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left menu, select Subtitles .
3. Click the video you’d like to edit.
4. For the language you’d like to edit, in the “Subtitles” column select Edit.
5. For automatic captions, select Duplicate and edit Continue to overwrite your existing draft.
6. Click inside any line in the caption track panel and edit the text.
7. When you’ve finished making changes, click Publish.

You can edit the timing on your caption tracks directly in the YouTube captions editor or by downloading your caption files.

Use the YouTube captions editor

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left menu, select Subtitles .
3. Click the video you’d like to edit.
4. For the language you’d like to edit, in the “Subtitles” column, select Edit .
5. Select a specific line in the caption track panel:
   • You can adjust timing by editing the two timestamp boxes beside the caption track.
   Note: If you’re not seeing timestamps, select Edit timings.
6. When you’ve finished making changes, click Publish.

Download & edit caption files

You can edit timestamps by downloading the caption file and using a plain text (.txt) editing program like TextEdit or Notepad to make edits.

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left menu, select Subtitles .
3. Click the video you’d like to edit.
4. Under Subtitles, click Edit next to the language you want to edit.
5. Click Options and select Download subtitles. Learn more about caption file formats.
6. Your browser will download a file containing the captions track. Edit the file and save it.
7. Follow the instructions to upload the captions to your video again.