To add captions or subtitles to your video by uploading your file, follow these steps:
- Navigate to your Library and open the desired video.
- Select the [CC] button to the left of the player and then Closed captions to open the transcript.
- Select Settings from within the Closed captions panel (to the right of Transcript).
- Select the “+” button to the right of My Uploads, then specify the language and file type.
- Click Choose file and upload the file from your computer.
- Once the file is uploaded, you’ll need to toggle it on to activate it. To replace, delete, download, or edit the file, click on the options menu (⋯) next to the file name and select the corresponding option from the menu.
If you don’t already have captions or subtitles for your video, you can purchase them through one of the trusted providers listed below. These same providers are also listed on the Settings tab.
Vimeo supports the following captions and subtitles file formats: SRT, WebVTT, DFXP/TTML, SCC, and SAMI files, but we recommend using WebVTT whenever possible. We also recommend encoding your caption files in UTF-8 format. Otherwise, captions that contain special characters may not display correctly during playback.
If you have any further questions, please contact Support. Please include which type of caption or subtitle file you tried to upload, the link to the video you tried to upload the file to, and any further details that would help us to troubleshoot.