YouTube's privacy and compliance policies do not allow users to generate content with AI directly from YouTube videos. Therefore, when selecting the Generate Interactions function in the interactive video designer with YouTube videos, there will be a warning message to indicate that the interactions can not be generated directly. Don’t worry: there are still ways to use AI Interactions with YouTube content! See some options for workarounds below.
Workaround options
There are three options for you to utilize the AI-generated interactions while building your interactive videos in Interactivity.
Option 1: Copy and paste the YouTube transcript to the AI interaction generator
If the YouTube video comes with a transcript, you can copy and paste it into the AI interaction generator in Interactivity to generate interactions with the content in the transcript.
To acquire the transcript, open the video on YouTube, expand the description section, and click Show Transcript in the description.
Highlight all the content in the transcript, right-click on the highlighted text, and click Copy to copy the transcript.
Return to the interactive video editor and click the Generate Interactions button on the Interactions tab.
Paste the copied transcript into the YouTube Transcript section and adjust the settings above, then click Generate Interactions to generate interactions with the transcript. Please see this article for more information about adjusting settings for the interaction generator.
(Optional) If the warning message on the top of the generator doesn’t go away after pasting the transcript, please move the playhead on the progress bar a little to load the video and transcript.
Option 2: Use WeVideo to manage and publish your videos
AI-generated interactions are also available for the interactive videos built with videos hosted on WeVideo. Please follow the steps below to upload your videos to WeVideo and add them to Interactivity:
Switch to the Multimedia Creation space and select Create.
Select Import or drag and drop the media file into the editor.
Drag the imported media to the timeline below. You can also edit or trim the media clips with the editor. Please see these articles for more information about editing media in WeVideo.
After editing the media clips, click Export on the top right of the screen and adjust the export settings if needed. Then click Export again to start exporting the project.
To generate AI interactions, the video must have subtitles attached to it. If you do not have a subtitle file for the video, you can click Subtitles and select Auto-generate subtitles to generate the subtitles for this video.
Select Interactivity and click Open in new interactive video.
Click the Generate Interactions button to generate questions with the AI tool. Please see this article for more information about AI-generated interaction.
Option 3: Upload captions to WeVideo for YouTube videos you own
If you are the owner of the YouTube videos, you can download your caption file in .VTT format from YouTube and manually upload the captions into WeVideo Interactivity to use the AI-generated interactions with the uploaded captions. Once you have the caption files, please follow the steps below to import them into Interactivity.
Select Interactive Videos and click Create interactive video.
Select YouTube as the video host and find the video you want to use.
Click Customize to switch to the Captions tab and upload the caption files to this video. WeVideo Interactivity supports captions in VTT and SRT format. Click Done to save the change.
Switch to the Interactions tab and click the Generate Interactions button to generate questions with the AI tool. Please see this article for more information about AI-generated interaction.