I have existing narration audio and the text I wish to use for cc. In Storyline 2 I built a cc solution using a text variable and triggers... From what I can tell the new cc functionality requires me to convert my audio to video, use a service to create the cc text and then import both files. I'm not sure this is easier than what I currently have... Has anyone struggled with this issue?
Yup - if you're using an audio only element you'll first want to convert it to a video file. For example, import your audio into PowerPoint, then export it as a video.
Thanks Ashley! Unfortunately however my audio isn't importing into the powerpoint mp4 and I've tried both mp3 and wav formats. I've investigated this on the web and think I'm doing the export properly. Is there a key step required other than importing the wav, setting it to play automatically, adding an image to the slide and then exporting to mp4?
New info... its' working fine now BUT Storyline is often splitting the cc text into two windows. What might be causing this? (PS, working full time in Windows now)
5. With the Audio track and SRT file having the same file name and located in the same directory, I add the audio track to Storyline, which automatically associates the SRT file with the audio track.
Thanks - might just try that... I've resolved the two-window problem. It's not Storyline but YouTube - the time codes overlap and two windows are therefore created. I am NOT enjoying this process...
Still a little bit of manual work this way, but the more audio that you feed Camtasia, the better it's Speech-To-Text gets. Since it generates the time codes for you, all you have to to is clean up the text and you're done.
It's easy to fix the overlap in YouTube. Go to the editing option in the CC and you'll see a timeline for the caption sections. Drag the edges of the captions in the timeline so they don't overlap. This also makes it easy to tweak the start and end point of each caption.
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Hi Brian,
Yup - if you're using an audio only element you'll first want to convert it to a video file. For example, import your audio into PowerPoint, then export it as a video.
Our tutorial on closed captioning in Storyline 3/360 is also available here.
Thanks Ashley! Unfortunately however my audio isn't importing into the powerpoint mp4 and I've tried both mp3 and wav formats. I've investigated this on the web and think I'm doing the export properly. Is there a key step required other than importing the wav, setting it to play automatically, adding an image to the slide and then exporting to mp4?
Sounds like you've got all the steps - but it's not going through within Powerpoint? What version are you using?
using Ppt 2013. BTW I have it working in Windows but not on my Mac... interesting - I'm moving all files to the same box that Storyline is using...
Hi Brian,
Can you tell me more about what exactly isn't working on your Mac? Are you using a virtual machine there?
New info... its' working fine now BUT Storyline is often splitting the cc text into two windows. What might be causing this? (PS, working full time in Windows now)
I use Camtasia to accomplish this:
1. Put the audio track into Camtasia
2. Use speech-to-text to generate the captions
3. Clean up the text/time codes
4. Export an SRT file.
5. With the Audio track and SRT file having the same file name and located in the same directory, I add the audio track to Storyline, which automatically associates the SRT file with the audio track.
Thanks - might just try that... I've resolved the two-window problem. It's not Storyline but YouTube - the time codes overlap and two windows are therefore created. I am NOT enjoying this process...
Still a little bit of manual work this way, but the more audio that you feed Camtasia, the better it's Speech-To-Text gets. Since it generates the time codes for you, all you have to to is clean up the text and you're done.
Excellent! I'm going to check it out - thanks for the idea.
It's easy to fix the overlap in YouTube. Go to the editing option in the CC and you'll see a timeline for the caption sections. Drag the edges of the captions in the timeline so they don't overlap. This also makes it easy to tweak the start and end point of each caption.
Hey everyone- thanks for all the collaboration here! Brian, keep us posted on how you make out. I'm glad you're getting through it. 😊
Thanks Chris - will be trying that today. Editing in notepad works but it ranks right up there with a root canal for sheer joy.
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