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Are you intimidated by making posts?

12 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this informal YouTube segment, the speaker shares personal anxieties about creating short video reels for TikTok and Instagram, especially the perceived need for professional transcription and captioning. She demystifies the process by explaining that TikTok allows users to upload pre‑recorded videos instead of filming within the app, and that its built‑in "captions" feature can automatically transcribe audio. The speaker walks through how the auto‑captions can be quickly edited to fix capitalization and name spelling errors, emphasizing that these tools eliminate the need for hiring external help and make posting much easier.

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I get a little bit intimidated when I see like TikTok or Instagram video reels that have the text on them, the transcription, and I'm thinking, oh, now I have to hire somebody and it's going to be a pain in the butt. TikTok, you can actually upload your video. So you don't have to use the app to film it. So I upload my videos there. I do some of them using the app. But they have this little thing called captions and you push it and it goes through and analyzes your audio and it throws it up for you and it gives you the option of going through and editing. It doesn't do capitalizations very well and it always spells my name wrong, those types of things. But you can go through quickly, change that, and then it does it for you. So you don't have to do any of that work if you don't want to. Which is really nice. It is. It makes it look like that.