Paste your video's transcript and get named chapters ready for the description, every time taken from the transcript itself. Already have timestamps? Check them against the rules YouTube uses to show chapters.
On YouTube, open your video → ··· under the player (or “…more” in the description) → Show transcript, select the panel and copy it. Works for any language YouTube transcribes.
Chapters split the progress bar into named sections and can appear in Google results as key moments. YouTube only shows them when the timestamps in your description follow a few rules, and they only help when the names say what's in each part.
These are YouTube's rules. Miss one — a first timestamp of 0:05, only two chapters, a 6-second section — and the whole list is ignored.
0:05 Intro / 3:10 Results
0:00 Intro / 1:12 Setup / 3:10 Results
Viewers scrub to the part they need. A chapter called “Part 2” makes them guess; a chapter called “The $20 mic” takes them there.
Part 2
The $20 mic
If a chapter name answers the title's question, viewers jump straight to it and leave. Name the payoff section by what's tested, not by the verdict.
Winner: mic number 3
Head-to-head: all five mics
Rewrites are illustrative examples, not measured results.
Open your video on YouTube, click ··· under the player or “…more” in the description, choose Show transcript, then select and copy the panel. For your own uploads, captions are also in YouTube Studio → Subtitles.
No. It only chooses which transcript lines start a new section and names them. Every time comes from your transcript, and the result is checked against YouTube's rules.
Usually the first timestamp isn't 0:00, there are fewer than three, or one section is under 10 seconds. Paste them into “Check my timestamps” to see which rule fails.
They can appear as key moments in Google results and make a long video easier to navigate. They don't guarantee more views.