Closed captioning displays a text transcription of the audio portion of a video or audio file while the audio is playing, making it easy for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to fol...
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Very excited about the options to import CC files to use in Storyline 360!
We did a test run, but in ours, the captions box "flashes" in and out instead of remaining on the screen while the text fades nicely from caption one to another (as I've seen in several demo/examples posted with the announcement).
We use SRT files for caption. If we set the end time of the previous caption to match the start time of the next caption, will that prevent the "flashing" gray caption boxes?
For example,
Caption 1 text 00:00.00 to 00:05.26
Caption 2 text 00:05.26 to 00:07.19
Caption 3 text 00:07.19 to 00:10.05
Lastly, can you be specific down to the hundredth of a second, or should you round to tenths or the whole second? (This has been an issue in using SRT captions in a previous project.)
Thanks again for any help or suggestions!
We did a test run, but in ours, the captions box "flashes" in and out instead of remaining on the screen while the text fades nicely from caption one to another (as I've seen in several demo/examples posted with the announcement).
We use SRT files for caption. If we set the end time of the previous caption to match the start time of the next caption, will that prevent the "flashing" gray caption boxes?
For example,
Caption 1 text 00:00.00 to 00:05.26
Caption 2 text 00:05.26 to 00:07.19
Caption 3 text 00:07.19 to 00:10.05
Lastly, can you be specific down to the hundredth of a second, or should you round to tenths or the whole second? (This has been an issue in using SRT captions in a previous project.)
Thanks again for any help or suggestions!
Hi Diana,
For the most seamless transition from one caption to the next, setting the end timestamp of caption 1 = the start timestamp of caption 2 (down to the hundredth of a second) will provide the best results. The larger the gap between captions, the more noticeable the transition will be, in terms of the captions' background boxes. You can experiment with variations in tenths, hundredths, or even full seconds between captions. It sounds like matching end timestamps to start timestamps exactly is going to be your best bet.
Hope that helps!
For the most seamless transition from one caption to the next, setting the end timestamp of caption 1 = the start timestamp of caption 2 (down to the hundredth of a second) will provide the best results. The larger the gap between captions, the more noticeable the transition will be, in terms of the captions' background boxes. You can experiment with variations in tenths, hundredths, or even full seconds between captions. It sounds like matching end timestamps to start timestamps exactly is going to be your best bet.
Hope that helps!
- THANKS MAT! That's a H-U-G-E help. So happy to hear we can go to a hundredth of a second (our previous method didn't allow that). Oh, happy day!!