From your dashboard, open Studio and go to the Connections tab, then click Enable on YouTube.
We recommend connecting a YouTube account your group, department, or university uses rather than a personal one, since everyone who manages captions will need access. You can sign in with Google yourself, or invite the channel owner to grant access.
Once connected, you'll see your channel’s videos in Echo Labs. Select the ones you want and order captions and audio descriptions like any other video. Echo Labs writes the finished captions and audio descriptions back to YouTube automatically.
Publishing audio descriptions back to YouTube
When you order Audio Description (AD) on a video imported from YouTube, Echo Labs automatically uploads the audio-described copy back to your YouTube channel as a new video once it’s ready.
Automatic vs. manual publishing
By default, Publish AD copy to YouTube automatically is on. Turn it off if you’d rather handle publishing yourself — for example, to upload the audio-described video manually, or to add a standalone audio-description track to the original through YouTube Studio. With it off, the audio descriptions simply stay in your Echo Labs dashboard, where you can download them in various formats. You can still publish specific videos to YouTube at any time using the Publish to YouTube button on the video page.
Customizing the published copy
You can change any of this from your account settings under Audio descriptions (you’ll also be prompted the first time you order AD on a YouTube video):
Privacy of the AD copy — match the original video, or set it to Public, Unlisted, or Private.
Append “(AD)” to the title of the AD copy.
Add a link to the original in the AD copy’s description.
Add a link to the AD version in the original video’s description (at the top or bottom).
