How to create timestamps for YouTube videos using ChatGPT
Anton Shulke
Head of Influencer Marketing at Duda |ex-Semrush | recently moved from Kyiv, Ukraine to Spain, and then to Bratislava, Slovakia
If you are doing a lot of videos, especially live (no script) videos, and many of them are over 30 minutes (conventional wisdom says any video over 39 minutes needs timestamps) - read this short article. It saves you hours!
ChatGPT can′t watch the video, so you need a technical transcript first. There are a lot of apps that can do it, but if you are on a tight budget, you can use a transcript done by YouTube itself.
It usually takes a bit of time for YouTube to produce a technical transcript, so leave it for a day after the video went live, and then open the description and scroll it down:
The transcript will appear in the live chat place
Unfortunately, there is no elegant way to copy it, just hold the left mouse (or pod) button and scroll to the bottom
Then paste it to any word editor (I use Google Doc)
Congrats, you just got your technical transcript.
ChatGPT doesn′t read Google Docs so you need to save it as a file. I use PDF.
The main task is done.
ChatGPT part: You need ChatGPT to be able to read PDF files. If you gonna create timestamps regularly, I recommend creating a Conversational Helper for this purposes
The main thing here to arrange - is the ability of this helper to read PDFs.
Prompt depends on what you already taught to your helper, but is something like this: Read this PDF till the very end, skip the introduction, pick up 15 main points, and create timestamps, the format: "05:23¨- Text"
Read it yourself before using it, edit it if necessary