

Place your cursor in the text box prompting you to insert your SBV file and paste the content by pressing "Control + V" on a PC or "Command + V" on a Mac. Navigate your browser to either the Caption It Yourself or 3Play Media converter site. Copy the selection to the computer's clipboard by pressing "Control + C" on a PC or "Command + C" on a Mac.

Select all of the text content of the caption file by pressing "Control + A" on a PC or "Command + A" on a Mac. Launch your computer's native text editor - Notepad on Windows, for example, or TextEdit on a Mac - and use it to open the exported captions file. Select the caption track you would like to download and click the "Actions" drop-down menu.Ĭlick "SBV" - this format is necessary for the conversion to SRT format - to download the caption file to your computer.

Log into your YouTube account and then navigate to your Video Manager by clicking the arrow next to "Upload" at the top of the page and selecting "Video Manager."Ĭlick the drop-down menu next to "Edit" for the video whose captions you would like to obtain and select "Captions."
