Captioning in popular platforms

YouTube

• YouTube step-by-step directions
  • "Captioning YouTube Videos You Don't Own: How and Why to Do It"
• YouTube auto-captions and instructions for editing the captions.

Vimeo 

• Directions for adding captions 

Social Media

• Facebook 
  • add captions to posted videos
  • view captions in Facebook videos
• Instagram
  • Posts: captions must be part of the video
  • How to enable captions for videos
  • Article: How to caption Instagram Stories, Reels and IGTV
• Twitter 
  • Subtitles are available for Twitter content
  • How to upload an SRT subtitle file in Media Studio
• Article: "How to Add Captions and Subtitles to Your Social Media Videos"

Articulate StoryLine

• 3PlayMedia's step by step tutorial
• View Articulate Storyline's How-To document

Do-it-yourself tools

Create your own time-stamped captioning file

1. Upload video to a service supporting auto-captioning 
2. Allow auto-captions to be created 
3. Correct auto-captions and re-sync video 
4. Download captioning file 

• Rev.com
  • Upload your video and receive an auto-generated transcript or caption file. 

Other tools:

• CADET Captioning Software - Free, downloadable caption-authoring software that enables anyone to produce high-quality caption files that are compatible with any media player that supports the display of captions. CADET can also be used to generate audio-description scripts.
• Amara - create a caption file for your own videos.
  • Amara's tutorial for creating captions
  • Instructions for using the completed captions
• Voice Recognition Software (Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Siri, Dragon Dictate App, etc.)
• Transcribe - type out your own transcript.
• Top 10 Subtitle creation software
• Top 10 Subtitle Editors
• How Long Does It Take to Manually Caption Videos?