How To Add A Timestamp To A Youtube Comment

Have yous ever meet a video that has been broken upwardly into chapters? If so, the person who uploaded that video knew how to add timestamps on YouTube properly. Timestamping on YouTube was ever an of import fashion of getting people to watch a certain area of a video. Over time, the feature grew to allow users to split up videos, add reference timestamps in comments, and even send people URL links that will link directly to that timestamp in the video.

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To add together capacity to a YouTube video, edit the description of your video. Add together the timestamps you want, each on their own line. If yous want to championship them, add together a dash and and then the title of each timestamp. To stop, clickSalve.

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How to add chapters to YouTube videos
Sending someone a YouTube video at a sure timestamp
Timestamping a YouTube comment

Adding timestamps to a YouTube video

If yous've watched enough YouTube, by at present you'll have seen a video that has been cleaved up into dissimilar parts. At each of these breakpoints, the topic typically shifts. If it'south a music compilation, there may exist a break to differentiate one song from another.

These are called chapters, and they are added via timestamps.

How to add chapters to a YouTube video

From the YouTube home screen, click your contour motion picture in the tiptop right.

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ClickYouTube Studio to go to the YouTube Creator Studio.

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In YouTube Studio, click theContent tab on the left side.

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Notice the video you desire to divide upward into chapters. Hover your mouse over its title.

hover mouse over video you want to timestamp

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From the options that appear, click the pencil-shapedDetailsbutton.

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Observe the Descriptionbox. This is where you volition be adding the timestamps that will carve up your video into chapters.

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Fill out the description box with the timestamps. Here are a few important formatting notes:

Make sure your commencement timestamp begins at 0:00.
To add another timestamp after your first one, hittingEnter on your keyboard to start a new line. Y'all do not want ii timestamps to exist on the same line, as it may confuse the algorithm.
You must have at least 10 seconds in-betwixt capacity.
If you want to title a chapter, add it subsequently the timestamp. For example, "0:00 – Intro" will bear witness up on the video progress bar during playback equally Intro.

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When finished, click the bluishSalvage push in the meridian right.

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There are a few things to annotation.

Chapters don't e'er appear consistently, and it may accept some time for the capacity to appear on your video. Some claim that you need at to the lowest degree i,000 subscribers for capacity to announced consistently on your videos; however, this is unproven.

After adding the chapter timestamps to your video description, wait at least 24 hours and check dorsum to encounter if the chapters have appeared. Make sure your account is in good standing and you've added a phone number to your account.

If you are patient and the capacity are still not showing up, send in a support ticket to YouTube Assist.

How to add timestamps to YouTube links

Go to the YouTube video for which yous desire to share a timestamped link. Click theShare button underneath it.

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In theShare box, click the checkbox that saysStarting time at X:Twenty. This volition allow you to create a timestamped link.

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You tin now add a custom time in the timestamp section. Add together the timestamp of wherever you want the video to get-go for the person clicking the link. For example, hither nosotros will exist adding the custom timestamp at 5:53.

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Finally, click theCopypush next to the timestamped link.

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How to add timestamps to YouTube comments

Go to the comments department of whichever video yous desire. To add a timestamp, merely add the timestamp of wherever you want in the video to your annotate. For instance, here we are adding a timestamp to 1:23 of the video.