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Feature

AI Chapters

Long videos keep more viewers when people can jump to the part they want. VidAI breaks your video into clean, timestamped chapters for you.

Why it helps

Chapters add a clickable timeline on the player, make your video skimmable, and often surface in search. Writing them by hand means re-watching your own video with a stopwatch. VidAI listens to the video and proposes the breakpoints.

How to use it

  1. Open the video in YouTube Studio

    Open the VidAI generate options for the video.

  2. Generate chapters

    VidAI reads the video's content and proposes a list of 00:00 Title style markers.

  3. Review the breakpoints

    Adjust a label or a time if you'd split a section differently.

  4. Add them to the description

    Paste the list into your description. YouTube turns them into chapter markers automatically once the first one starts at 00:00.

A long video divided into labelled chapter segments00:00 Intro02:14 Setup06:40 Demo11:05 Wrap-up
One paste in the description and viewers get a navigable timeline.
Note: Chapters need the video's spoken content, so this works best on videos that have captions/subtitles available. It's one of the actions that may be locked until a draft is saved — just save the draft first.

Tuned per channel (v1.8.15+)

Chapters obey the same per-channel ⚙ settings as titles and descriptions. For this channel you can set the chapter count target (auto, or short / medium / long ranges), the timestamp format (time then title, or title then time), and whether to force an explicit "Intro" chapter at 00:00 (on by default, which is also what makes YouTube show the chapter markers). Output language follows the channel setting too.

Plan note: the chapter count / format / intro controls are PRO fine-tuning — without PRO you get sensible automatic chapters. See the per-channel settings walkthrough on the AI Titles page.

✅ What you get

  • A clickable chapter timeline on the player.
  • Higher watch time — viewers find their part instead of leaving.
  • No stopwatch, no re-watching your own video.