Chapters exist as clickable links in the play bar and allow viewers to navigate to key points of your video. They can help increase engagement and accessibility while contributing to SEO benefits as well.
Note
This article discusses chapters for videos. To learn how to add chapters to audio files, refer to our audio player customization guide.
Add chapters to your video
To add chapters to your video, click "Customize" on a media page and select the "Chapters" tab. Once open, move the toggle to "On" to enable chapters.
The first chapter will be called "New Chapter." Click into the text field to edit the chapter's title. Click into the timestamp field to adjust the timing. Alternatively, scrub to the desired time using the timeline at the bottom of the page. Click "Add chapter" to add a new chapter.
If your video is less than a minute long, chapter timestamps will be formatted as seconds.milliseconds. For videos longer than one minute, timestamps will be formatted as minutes:seconds.milliseconds. Videos longer than an hour will be formatted as hours:minutes:seconds.milliseconds.
Once you've configured your chapters, click "Save" at the top right of the page to save your changes.
Tip
There is no hard character limit for chapter names, but longer titles may appear cut off in the player.
Chapters appear as clickable points on the play bar. Hovering over each chapter marker in the play bar allows you to see the name of the chapter. You can also open up the chapter menu to see the full list of chapters.
AI Chapters
The AI-powered chapter generator carefully reviews and analyzes your video’s transcript to create chapters for topic changes. To generate new AI chapters, click "Generate chapters."
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Your media must have a transcript before creating AI chapters. Generating new AI chapters will replace all existing chapters. Chapters cannot exist for multiple languages at once.
Remove chapters
To remove a chapter, click the "X" next to any title. Click "Save" at the top right of the page to save your changes, or click "Discard" to remove your chapters and start over.
