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9/24 Update: Starting today, automated video chapters can now show on all existing and eligible videos. Creators: you can edit your preferences in bulk in your uploads list. Check out this Help Center article for more details on bulk editing.
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Have you ever spent time trying to find an exact moment in a video? Look no further! We’re introducing Video Chapters on Desktop, Android and iOS, which allows you to jump forward to a specific section of a video, rewatch a portion of a video, and more. Chapters appear at the bottom of the video player and use timestamps from the creator's video description. Note: chapters are only shown on videos if the creator has included them. Learn more about video chapters here.
Creators: Video Chapters is an optional feature. If you choose to add chapters, we’ll use the timestamp data listed in your video description. To enable the feature, make sure the first timestamp listed in your video description starts at 0:00, and that your video has at least 3 timestamps or chapters, with each chapter being 10 seconds or longer.
If you want to disable video chapters on any of your content, you can adjust the first timestamp in your video description to be something other than 0:00 for example, just change it to be "0:01."
We’ve received positive feedback from the experiment -- for example, people liked having songs broken into chapters and enjoyed being able to jump to a specific part of a video. We're excited to hear your feedback and how creators are using the feature in their videos – share all of this in the comments below.
- Sarah, TeamYouTube
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Creators: We’re launching automatic video chapters! For new uploads, we’ll use machine learning to automatically generate chapters for your videos (instead of requiring you to add timestamps and titles to your video descriptions). More details in this Help Center article.
A few things to know:
- You can turn this on or off in YouTube Studio under video settings under “Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible). You can also update this in the default upload settings for all videos.
- We will roll automatic chapters out in phases, starting with newly uploaded videos.
- Any video chapters that you manually enter into the video description will override automatic video chapters
- Note: there are cases where auto chapters won’t show (even if they are enabled) due to technical limitations
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tank you from all
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Noooo why is this happening 😡😡😡😡😡
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Hi,
Thanks for this awesome feature. Somehow it does not work on my channel. Are there language or any other restrictions?
Thanks for this awesome feature. Somehow it does not work on my channel. Are there language or any other restrictions?
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Please update youtube to access chapters
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Creators: We’re launching automatic video chapters! For new uploads, we’ll use machine learning to automatically generate chapters for your videos (instead of requiring you to add timestamps and titles to your video descriptions). More details in this Help Center article.
A few things to know:
- You can turn this on or off in YouTube Studio under video settings under “Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible). You can also update this in the default upload settings for all videos.
- We will roll automatic chapters out in phases, starting with newly uploaded videos.
- Any video chapters that you manually enter into the video description will override automatic video chapters
- Note: there are cases where auto chapters won’t show (even if they are enabled) due to technical limitations
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