Adding closed captioning to a video

Hi Rachel,

Great question - and one we've seen before since Storyline doesn't have a built in method. While you wait for others in the community to share what they've done, I wanted to share the following discussions that may be of help to you: 

• How to Create Free Closed Captioning Text for E-Learning
• Storyline Example: Generating Closed Captions
• 3 Ways to Boost E-Learning Accessibility with Closed Captions

Rachel,

I use the Storyline timeline to control everything, so all my elements are always in sync. If the user pauses the video, it pauses everything. Saves me a ton of headaches.

Here's how I have done it. Notice that the video has an invisible block covering it, so the user doesn't click on it and pause it.

i have tried this myself and it works perfectly well...as long as the connection and the LMS doesn´t take extra time to process the video...when that happens, no matter how precisely i have synchronized the closed captions with the video...things just start to move independently .... Any ideas? if a reduce the resolution of the video would it work? Any tricks to minimize this effect?

thanks a lot

Hi Leticia,

This discussion is a bit older - what version of Storyline are you using?

If you're using Storyline 2, you may want to look at Storyline 360 as we did add that as a feature. Check out this demo video and user guide for Storyline 360 and closed captioning.  

I use Camtasia to create the .SRT file. I let it do the Speech-To-Text conversion and then clean it up by hand. The more files you feed Camtasia in the same voice, the better it gets at recognizing the speech.

Then, I give the .SRT file the same name as the audio or video file in question and put them in the same directory. When I add the audio or video to Storyline, the .SRT comes with automatically. 

If I created the .SRT after the video was produced, I add it manually to the slide.

I also use Camtasia. In addition to the CC feature, I like how easy it is to zoom in and out to focus on certain parts of the video. 

Walt...your CC demo was just what I needed and now I look amazeballs to my team. I could squeeze you till you pop!!

Thanks!

K

Glad it helped. Thanks for the kind words.