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The first way to summarize a YouTube video with AI, in this case, it's going to be ChatGPT, is we jump to our favorite YouTube channel, this one of course, and we find a video we want to summarize because we want to just get to the point, even though this guy gets right to it. So you just click on a video and if you scroll down a little bit, you see these dots right here that say "more." And if you scroll down in the description, you can see the transcript.
So we can see the entire transcript right here by clicking "show transcript," and it shows up here in the top right. It's got all this time code here, which we do not need. So we click on these three dots and choose "toggle timestamps." And now we can select all of this text and hit Command C on a Mac, Control C on a PC. Bam, copy all of this. Going to open up ChatGPT by typing "chat." And here we just say, "Summarize with bullet points the following YouTube video transcript. You use less words, but you know." And then bam, I hit enter. It all dumps into there, and then immediately ChatGPT pumps out a summary of the entire video with bullet points. So instead of 13 minutes, whatever the video was, you can now read it in like a minute. That is one way.
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There's a second way to summarize a YouTube video using AI. If there is too much text, using the prior method, ChatGPT will not accept it. But, but here's the workaround. What you want to do is search for "YouTube summary extension for Chrome," and it'll pull up this extension here. And you'll click right here, and it'll say "install extension." You install it, and then you jump into YouTube and you look at a maybe a much longer video, like this one. Here's a video, it's almost an hour long from Alex Heros. He's really good, you should watch his stuff.
Once you've installed the plug-in, you will get this little box up here with these options. You want to first click on this little down arrow right here, so the entire transcript shows up right here. Now, there's an option for "summary" here, but that requires, I believe, payment. It's a premium feature for Glasp, so you don't want that. So we just click on "transcript," and you click on this icon here for ChatGPT, and watch what happens. It opens up this window. You sit here, and it's like, "Oh, look at that." It pumped in everything, and now it is automatically, with, I guess it's two clicks, giving you a summary of that very long video. So now, instead of spending an hour watching this video, you can read this in like 30 seconds. For seven CapCut AI features that will just blow your mind, you want to click on this video right here.