Add YouTube chapters and check retention

Applies to 0.11Updated 6 Nov 20262 min read

Choose File › Export › YouTube Chapters…, generate chapter suggestions, review the titles, then apply them as markers or copy them for your video description.

1. Choose File › Export › YouTube Chapters….
2. Press Generate Chapter Suggestions. Tick Use Local AI only to keep everything on your Mac.
3. Read the titles and change any you like.
4. Press Apply Chapter Markers. Tick Also create 5-second chapter title cards on a separate track to show them in the video.
5. Press Export Chapters…, or choose File › Export › Copy YouTube Chapters and paste them into the YouTube description.

Already transcribed? Markers › Add Chapter Markers from Transcript is the quick way.

See where viewers leave

YouTube Intelligence… has tabs for Chapters, Captions, SRT and Retention. Save Validated SRT… saves captions in the form YouTube accepts.

For retention, turn on Record identity for YouTube retention analysis in Export before you export. Later, press Import Analytics JSON… with the retention data from YouTube Analytics: the drops line up with the exact cut you uploaded. Your YouTube account is never connected to the app.

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