The Camtasia captioning interfaces are good enough at this point for the captioning newbie or casual captioner. Camtasia is a great tool, but I don't expect any tool to do everything. Now, as much as I love Camtasia for Mac and PC, I think their built in captioning tools are still pretty basic and a little clunky, especially for experienced captioners. I also often use Dragon Naturally Speaking to create captions directly - without typing - in both software interfaces mentioned, when I'm not uploading to YouTube. Those are a few of my captioning workflow favorite things that get you to the captioning formats you want and more. srt file for editing, and save in a generous handful of popular formats including SAMI (I like this because it doesn't actually store the video, it just stores your video URL and work in progress for a few days. You can also pull the URL of the YouTube video into a nifty little web-based tool called Subtitle Horse, import the.

Then you can edit in the very user friendly YouTube captioning editor, or download your auto transcribed and auto synced caption file provided automatically in YouTube to fine tune in desktop software ( both recommended save in pretty much any captioning format that you can imagine.) If you upload to YouTube*** you can get a pretty decent head start with auto transcriptions (You must have good quality audio and a reasonable length video to get high accuracy, but it is very doable.) Software: MovieCaptioner for PC and Mac, (about 99.00) SubtitleEdit for PC.