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Understanding Speech-to-Text Technology: The Backbone of AI Subtitle Generators

Speech recognition technology has been around since the 1960s. But it has never been as prevalent and useful to the average individual as it is today. From dictation programs to voice-recognizing language translators, speech-to-text is everywhere. So it makes sense for one to wonder how it even works.

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The Psychology of Color in Video: How to Use Color to Evoke Emotions

Viewers of any media are moved not only by its story, script, and performance but also by its color and lighting. In long-form content and movies, color psychology can play a crucial role in emphasizing and heightening the desired emotions. So, it makes sense for creators to understand color psychology.

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Big Move Announcement: ContentFries' Transition to Singapore - Here's What You Need to Know

Dear master chefs, we're making a move to Singapore! Please take a moment to read this announcement and understand the changes that will be coming.

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10 Effective Strategies for Promoting Your Video Content on Social Media

If you want to promote your video content on social media, you have to compete with five hundred plus hours of video being uploaded to Youtube every minute. You can't just spam your way out of obscurity when there are over 30,000 hours of video content being uploaded online every hour.

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Mastering Video SEO: Tips and Tricks for Higher Rankings

Author: Ibrahim Dar To some, it might seem like video is to SEO what chocolate is to onions: completely unrelated. But when it comes to content discovery, search engine optimization is crucial to a video's success. If you make the best video in the world but put it in a flash drive that you keep under your bed, no one will find it. Well, the third page of Google is visited less often than the underside of your bed.

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5 Lesser-Known Video Editing Techniques for Stunning Visuals

In the content economy, videos have to feature more than recorded narrative or action. They have been visual masterpieces for which using non-cliche editing techniques is crucial.

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How To Build A Strong Personal Brand On Social Media: 10 Best Strategies For Content Creators

Building a strong brand on social media entails creating a presence and content that matters to a specific set of people. Once you're associated in their minds as an authority or a leader in a specific area, you can be considered to have a strong online brand.

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Exploring The Future Of Video Marketing: 10 Emerging Trends And Technologies

Video is the most advanced medium of content distribution. Therefore video marketing is among the most cutting-edge categories of marketing. Those who get interested in video marketing are, by no means, comfort-seeking traditionalists. Video marketing professionals and pioneers thrive in the ever-changing technological landscape. From personalization to playability and interactiveness to integration, almost every aspect of video marketing is set to change in the future.

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10 Best Strategies for Creating an Engaging Live Video Content

Livestreaming has become a parallel category for online content. Gaming streamers and commentators amass millions of followers every day. And with just a smartphone or a laptop, you have access to the same opportunity. To get your slice of the live video content pie, you have to be a master of engagement.

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How to Harness the Power of Interactive Videos: Engage, Educate, and Entertain

Interactive video content is an underused format with serious potential. Whether you're a marketer looking to launch a campaign that stands out or a content creator who wants to harness the power of interactive videos to build his brand, you must understand the fundamentals of interactive content.

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10 Best Tips For Designing Eye-Catching Thumbnails For Video Content

Thumbnails are the first point of interaction between your content and a potential viewer. Platforms like Youtube can get impressions for your content, but if your thumbnails aren't enticing enough, you might not get enough clicks. To avoid this, you should design eye-catching thumbnails.

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10 Best Techniques for Engaging and Captivating Visual Storytelling

Stories can move mountains. And in a world where some of the top-earning public personalities are content creators, there's a lot more competition to make one's content more engaging.

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How To Create Seamless Transitions: Mastering The Art Of Dynamic Video Editing

Where choppy transitions can have a jarring effect, seamless transitions can have a hypnotic one. That's why dynamic video editing can improve your audience engagement. Smooth transitions are easy to follow but can be incredibly difficult to create.

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How to Add Captions to TikTok Videos for Better Engagement

Lately, TikTok has been booming with snappy-subtitled short clips. More and more creators are using short-form subtitles because they work. If you want similarly engaging captions for your TikTok videos, you must look no further.

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The Science Of Video Captions: How They Impact Audience Retention

You might have noticed that content has recently made a major format shift, with subtitled short-form clips having the internet's attention in a chokehold. Here's why everyone's all about video captions these days.

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How To Repurpose Instagram Reels For Other Social Media Platforms?

If you've been posting Instagram reels for a while, you'll notice that your reach isn't the same as it used to be when you started. Instagram seems to give disproportionate reach to new creators to get them hooked to making reels.

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Best Free Fonts For Closed Captions In Videos

Is your content editor pushing "premium" fonts that are more expensive than a month of Netflix? Or does it have a library of free fonts but none of them are good enough for videos?

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Creating Captivating Subtitles: Best Practices For Writing And Formatting

Subtitles have been relevant in visual media as translation tools. But recently, they have become more prominent in short-form content and social media posts. In some instances they enhance content comprehension because of the sound-off autoplay and in others, they act as visual stimuli for the short attention span of the average social content consumer.

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10 Methods To Ignite Your Creative Mind For Producing Engaging Content

Content creation seems simple, but if you've tried creating content, you know that it requires a lot of mental energy and discipline to produce high-quality videos, text, and posts. While many creators are willing to execute, they don't seem to have many fresh ideas. As a result, most creators simply hop on trends and emulate other creators. If you don't want to copy content, you must ignite your creative mind.

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The Dos and Don'ts of Repurposing Video Content

Whether you are a content creator or a marketer who uses video content, you know that it takes a lot of effort and money to make original content. The algorithmic nature of contemporary social media doesn't seem to respect the value of individual pieces of content. Instead of getting on a content creation treadmill, though, you can start repurposing content.

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How To Search Words In Youtube Transcript On Mac

Youtube videos can come with autogenerated as well as manually uploaded transcripts. You can skim through the transcript to understand what's stated in the video without sitting through its entire playback duration. When looking up specific topics within the video, you can even search for specific words in the video transcript.

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How To Extract Subtitles From A Video - Best 5 Ways

If you are wondering how to extract subtitles from a video, you probably have an online or offline video that you want to extract the caption from. Extracted subtitles can be used as notes or for content repurposing. They can also be saved for later use. The specific way in which you want to use the extracted captions determines the best method for it.

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7 Best Vintage Subtitle Fonts

Whether you're producing a documentary on the Victorian era or a period piece, you have to maintain a traditional aesthetic in everything ranging from music to color grading. In creating a cohesive old-timey look in your content, you have to consider the relevance of your subtitle font as well. Whenever your content relates to history or tradition, its subtitles should have a vintage font.

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How Much Does Closed Captioning Cost?

If you're in the content economy, you have noticed the "tiktokification" of content. Short-form videos optimized for sound-off consumption have become the primary content category on Instagram as well. Even Youtube has made way for such clips with its Shorts product. Whether you want to capitalize on the massive reach of short subtitled clips or you want your long-form content to be easier to access, you should invest in closed captions. But how much is the question?

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How To Merge Two Videos Together On Youtube

If you want to merge different clips to create long videos for Youtube, you have to use a video editor. While most video editors have this feature, Youtube's own editor discontinued the merging feature leaving its creators limited to playlisting as the only way of bundling two videos together.

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How To Change Caption Font Size in Netflix

Netflix has an impressive catalog of foreign content. It often has English audio dubbing available as well, but many people prefer subtitled versions. Some viewers turn on subtitles even when watching shows in their native language. It helps them concentrate and follow. But if subtitles are not large enough, they can be hard to follow. Fortunately, Netflix allows you to change the font size.

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How To Add Yellow Subtitles Font To Your Videos

When you want to add subtitles to your videos, one of the biggest problems you have to face is the lack of legibility. White font disappears in front of light surfaces, while the black font is canceled out whenever the video in the background features a black color. Yellow is the best color for font legibility and subtitle familiarity, as it has been used in movies for a long time.

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19 Best Content Distribution Platforms You Have To Know About

As a content marketer or creator, creating engaging content is just one part of the challenge. Distributing it is the other part. While most people post their content on one or two platforms and call it a day, serious creators diversify their visibility by cultivating viewership and listenership across various platforms.

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How To Add Caption To Instagram Reels

Instagram reels have become a point of interest for content creators because of their potential for discovery. A good reel side-steps the click-through decision and is judged by the algorithm based on its engagement. And one of the most crucial factors in a reel's engagement is whether or not it is subtitled.

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How To Add Caption To iPhone Photo

There are two main types of image captioning. The first entails adding words below the image in any context (like on Instagram or Facebook). The second type of caption is burned directly on the image. Fortunately, you can add captions to iPhone photos using both formats.

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What Fonts Does TikTok Use

Whether you're a podcaster or comedian, vlogger, or artist, TikTok can be a great platform for you to reach your audience. Captioned, subtitled, and headline-carrying clips get better engagement, so you might want to make it a habit to add captions and text to your TikTok videos. Here are your font options.

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How To Merge Two Videos On TikTok

Whether you want to merge two clips you made offline or two TikTok drafts that you shot and saved, you don’t need an independent editor app because merging two videos on TikTok is possible. And here’s how you do that.

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How To Make Audio Visualizers Online (Top 3 Ways)

If you want to turn your interview audio or music into a youtube-friendly or IG-friendly piece of content, you should use an audio visualizer. That word invokes the horror of having to download and master Adobe After Effects.

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How To Use Different Fonts On Instagram Caption

Instagram is a pretty uniform and homogenized platform. The image placement and text fonts are standardized to give a feeling of cohesiveness. But every now and then, you might find posts with different fonts. How do people pull this off?

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ContentFries 2.0 Phases Explained

ContentFries 2.0 with features like content scheduling on social, better video editing features, text to video and more is very much awaited version of smart content master chefs. Let's have a look at what we're cooking for you and see for yourself what you can look forward to!

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How To Add Subtitles To Videos On iPhone

Worrying about social media engagement seems like a mandatory part of having social media. Nowadays, shooting videos isn't enough because you have to make sure people scrolling Instagram or TikTok while listening to Spotify get reeled into your content. And for that, you must add subtitles.

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How Do Audio Visualizers Work?

Whether you have music you want to upload to youtube or a podcast audio clip you would rather have on Instagram, you need to convert an audio file into a video. And while slapping some artwork over the audio file to produce a video file can work technically, it isn't the best choice for platforms where the audience is supposed to be engaged visually. That's where audio visualizers come into play.

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How To Change Caption Language On Youtube?

If you're watching a youtube video and want the captions to be in a different language, you can use Youtube's in-built caption translation feature to change the caption language on the site.

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How To Embed Subtitles Into Video Permanently (Top 7 Ways)

Adding subtitles to a video can improve its engagement, but different platforms like Youtube and Facebook have different engines that accept SRT files to display subtitles. You do not control whether your audience opts to view the subtitles unless they are permanently overlayed on the video.

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How to Add Subtitles to a Youtube Video?

If you want to add captions to old youtube videos or want to upload new videos with subtitles, you must figure out how to leverage Google's CC-wizard. It helps you add captions in one of four ways.

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How To Add Subtitles To Instagram Stories?

If you're wondering how your friends are getting bite-sized captions on their Instagram stories, or you're just looking to reach your sound-off audience, you want to know how you can add subtitles to your Instagram stories.

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How to Combine 2 iPhone Videos

If you have shot two videos separately or were interrupted while recording a single video, you might want to combine the two videos together. Fortunately, if you have an iPhone, you can combine the two videos right on your device.

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How To Add Subtitles To Facebook Video

Many people scroll through Facebook with the sound off. Some are listening to music. Others are pretending to listen to the person in front of them. If you want to grab their attention as they are about to scroll past your autoplaying video, you must know how to add subtitles to Facebook videos.

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7 Best Fonts For Subtitles

From clarity to translation, subtitles serve different purposes in different contexts. The size of your subtitles has to vary based on the placement and the context. And for that, you need to be mindful of the font, because different fonts work in different places.

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ContentFries 2.0

After years of new experience with dev, we found technologies and tools that are a better fit for us. As it grew in complexity, some decisions we made in the past were not optimal. My goal is to create something that is 10x better than the current form. We have two options to achieve this goal. Keep rewriting the core code of ContentFries... Or start from scratch with years of extra experience. We decided to redo ContentFries from the ground up.

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10 Best Video Content Distribution Tactics

So you have a content plan. You know what content you will shoot, and you are ready to go out and dominate the market by distributing it. You might not even think about content distribution because Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms are ripe for posting. But to get the best return on your content creation dollars, you need to execute the following video content distribution tactics.

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How To Repurpose Video Content (9 Actionable Tips)

From "content is king" to "recency is king," a lot has changed about content in the online world. With a huge inflow of content, it has become crucial to repeatedly feed fresh content to your audience. There is plenty of debate regarding how much one should post each day. But everyone agrees that at no point should posting frequency take priority over quality. Repurposing video content is a common way to maintain quality while multiplying content. Read more to discover 9 Actionable Tips to repurpose video content you already have.

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Content Recycling vs. Content Repurposing

Content demand is rising and making fresh content with declining organic reach seems like a bad idea. Why not make the most of the content you've already paid to produce? To make sure your old content gets seen, you have two options: content recycling and content repurposing.

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How To Repurpose Content For Social Media (20 Actionable Tips)

Social media platforms are ever-expanding, and the increasing number of online content creators produces infinite competition for attention. While duplicate content is penalized on almost every platform, content repurposing has the most acceptable way to multiply your content.

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15 Benefits Of Repurposing Content

"Content is the king"—you might have heard many marketers and marketing leaders say that. They're not wrong, but it can get exhausting trying to produce multiple "kings" every day. Still, content creation remains a necessity.

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Make the Most of Your Zoom Call Recording With These 7 Tips!

Whether you're a life coach or a business consultant, therapist, or author, you've probably been on a Zoom call by now. If you ever catch yourself thinking, "that was such a great talk, wish I had recorded it," you need to look no further because it is possible to not just record zoom content but to repurpose it into shorter clips, social media videos, and graphics. So it is time to stop wondering how to save zoom videos and start saving them.

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Simple Webinar Content Repurposing Workflow For 2022

Webinar content is a great type of a long video content that you can repurpose. One great webinar has a potential equal to a handful videos, at the very least. A single webinar is versatile, and valuable content is hidden within. It can be repurposed into multiple posts: many smaller video clips, blog posts and other written content, perhaps even podcasts and presentation slides. You will have enough content to publish on all social media platforms in numerous formats, satisfying the unavoidable preference for variety among your target audience. All it takes is to repurpose your webinar content strategically. Good news is, there are many ways to repurpose it. Let's take a deep dive!

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GaryVee Content Model Explained in 60 Seconds

GaryVee Content Model = dozens of content pieces created out of a SINGLE long-form piece of content. Discover how to implement this extremely powerful content marketing strategy - and the BEST part - even without a team of production people.

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Looking back: 50 Significant Improvements or Features we implemented last year

It is ContentFries one year anniversary, and we are celebrating! Let's talk about 50 new and significant improvements or features we implemented last year. We were working hard on improving the product, renderer, automatic captions generator, and much more. This post will highlight just some of those changes and point out where we're heading next year!

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3 new and powerful ContentFries features to simplify your workflow

I don't know about you, but I could use some simplifying in my workflow. We picked up 3 new and cool features that can make your life a lot easier.

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How to add captions to video super easily in just minutes!

Adding subtitles to your video doesn't have to be hard. By following this process, you can turn what usually takes hours into minutes. And also enjoy it, because it's fun!

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How to add Subtitles to Video automatically in 3 simple steps with stunning accuracy

If you create video content, having your videos captioned is a must!

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How to create engaging content on social media by integrating 3 keys of high-quality content for social media

We created several viral videos on a tiny market of 5.5M people. Yet those videos brought us nothing, but crickets! Read more about the 3 core pillars of engaging and converting content for social media.

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How to Create Catchy Content Pieces out of a Single Video with ContentFries

Repurpose your pillar content into content pieces similar to this one and others.

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How to start building your social media presence

Starting to build your online presence? Great choice! That means, you probably should produce a lot of content, so let’s get to it.

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How to publish English content (as a non-native) and what’s this all about

So you want to publish more content, but you’re not feeling confident enough about it? I feel you.

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