Is it possible to export closed captions in bulk? I have a course with 9 scenes, each scene at least 10-20 slides and/or layers. As you can imagine, exporting the captions slide by slide, layer by layer, is brutal.
Hi there, Tricia. I hear your pain points! Do you have closed caption files that are already in your Storyline project that you need to export for use in another project?
I created the closed captions directly in my SL project, and they don't necessarily match the notes for the screen. I was going to export them in bulk to have the most accurate record.
Are you able to share your .story file with us? That way we can look at the captions you included vs. what is on the screen and do some additional testing from there. You can share it here using the "Add Attachment" at the bottom of the reply or send it along to our Support team by uploading here.
Has there been an update on this? I also have a presentation that has over 40 slides. I have to publish it as a video for uploading to our LMS. I need to have closed captions on it and don't want to have to do it slide by slide.
I don't have an update on this feature just yet, but we promise to keep this discussion posted with any new information. You'll be notified immediately since you're now subscribed to this conversation.
Expect this feature in 2030. Exporting anything in bulk has been a huge pain-point of Storyline users for a long long time. I have found threads 7+ years old that still have active feature requests.
Currently, closed captions are exported one-by-one because audio and video files are treated as individual files. We don’t have plans for a feature to export all media captions in bulk right now, but we appreciate you letting us know this is important to you. We’ll update this discussion if our plans change in the future.
If you do not plan to allow for exporting in bulk, it would be nice to have a single icon on the ribbon to export each file. Having to open captions and then export is a royal pain.
Yes-this should be a feature icon for open & export minimally, but why stop there? Add them to the library so that we can bulk export. This is yet another practical and unaddressed request that is 2 years old.
Thanks for reaching out! As I mentioned above, there are no current plans for a feature to export all media captions in bulk, but we'll be sure to jump in here and share any changes if those plans change.
Tricia and Peter, I may have a solution that should work for doing a bulk export of captions (sorry, I can't do the bulk import!) If you're interested, would you send me a private message? You can do this by clicking on my name and then click Contact Me. You'll need to be running Windows 10 for this solution to work. I've tested it with a small sample size but I need others to test to see if it works on a larger scale. :)
Please note: I would reach out to you with a private message but for some reason my account doesn't seem to be configured correctly when sending messages.
I believe there are two solutions in approaching this problem but they both come up short in that it's not possible to match the original filename to the Storyline named file.
Method 1 -
Change the extension from your course file from ".story" to ".zip"
Open the file and navigate to the story\media folder and search for the ".vtt" files.
Method 2 - Publish your course and then translate the generated _caption.js files into something readable.
Thanks Peter for talking through this and pointing out Method 1. Perhaps one day the Media Library will offer a bulk exporter in the future?
Hi, Steve - Not sure what you mean - would you mind enlightening us?
One other thing that I found since my last post is the Media Library within Storyline does make it a tad faster to export your captions, still one at a time but it's not necessary to go one slide at a time, either:
From the menu bar,
Click View | Media Library
Select Video
*Next to Captions, click Edit Captions
Click Export...
*When clicking Edit Captions you would think it would start editing captions but instead you get the following choices: Edit, Replace, Export, Delete, and Apply to All. Not sure what Apply to All means as it is also shown for Alt Text, too.
Hello. Another user looking for being able to bulk export. I was hoping to a quick and easy way to do a full spelling check on all the captions that I entered. I have 21 scenes and too many slides and layer to count, so exporting one at a time is just not an option, I'm better off just going through and reading each one a couple times and crossing my fingers all are caught. If I could export everything to a word doc, can easily run a spell check and correct errors.
This user is looking for the same ability as well... it's clearly something that would be helpful to many users. Hoping if enough of us comment Articulate will change put this in their roadmap of updates.
For localization projects where it is mandatory to have closed captions in other languages, we need to be able to export the audio transcripts only for translation - so eg the NOTES. at least just the export. The import - obviously has to be done manually for correct syncing.
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Hi there, Tricia. I hear your pain points! Do you have closed caption files that are already in your Storyline project that you need to export for use in another project?
I created the closed captions directly in my SL project, and they don't necessarily match the notes for the screen. I was going to export them in bulk to have the most accurate record.
Hi Tricia,
Are you able to share your .story file with us? That way we can look at the captions you included vs. what is on the screen and do some additional testing from there. You can share it here using the "Add Attachment" at the bottom of the reply or send it along to our Support team by uploading here.
Has there been an update on this? I also have a presentation that has over 40 slides. I have to publish it as a video for uploading to our LMS. I need to have closed captions on it and don't want to have to do it slide by slide.
Hi, Scott. Thanks for checking in!
I don't have an update on this feature just yet, but we promise to keep this discussion posted with any new information. You'll be notified immediately since you're now subscribed to this conversation.
Expect this feature in 2030. Exporting anything in bulk has been a huge pain-point of Storyline users for a long long time. I have found threads 7+ years old that still have active feature requests.
Can we export captions in bulk with the new updates??
Hi Cristina,
Currently, closed captions are exported one-by-one because audio and video files are treated as individual files. We don’t have plans for a feature to export all media captions in bulk right now, but we appreciate you letting us know this is important to you. We’ll update this discussion if our plans change in the future.
If you do not plan to allow for exporting in bulk, it would be nice to have a single icon on the ribbon to export each file. Having to open captions and then export is a royal pain.
Thank you
I agree - that would be helpful.
Yes-this should be a feature icon for open & export minimally, but why stop there? Add them to the library so that we can bulk export. This is yet another practical and unaddressed request that is 2 years old.
Hello I see this topic is 2 years old, I would like to know if we still don't have the option to export all the closed captions in one document?
Hi Leandro,
Thanks for reaching out! As I mentioned above, there are no current plans for a feature to export all media captions in bulk, but we'll be sure to jump in here and share any changes if those plans change.
Export/import captions in bulk is desperately needed by your loyal customers.
Hi everyone, original poster here. Please Articulate, please make this possible. Slide-by-slide and layer-by-layer is not helpful.
Thanks!
Export AND import, please.
Tricia and Peter,
I may have a solution that should work for doing a bulk export of captions (sorry, I can't do the bulk import!) If you're interested, would you send me a private message? You can do this by clicking on my name and then click Contact Me. You'll need to be running Windows 10 for this solution to work. I've tested it with a small sample size but I need others to test to see if it works on a larger scale. :)
Please note: I would reach out to you with a private message but for some reason my account doesn't seem to be configured correctly when sending messages.
Peter,
I received your private message. Please let me know if you didn't get my response.
I believe there are two solutions in approaching this problem but they both come up short in that it's not possible to match the original filename to the Storyline named file.
Method 1 -
Method 2 - Publish your course and then translate the generated _caption.js files into something readable.
Thanks Peter for talking through this and pointing out Method 1. Perhaps one day the Media Library will offer a bulk exporter in the future?
How about adding the captions to the translation export?
Hi, Steve - Not sure what you mean - would you mind enlightening us?
One other thing that I found since my last post is the Media Library within Storyline does make it a tad faster to export your captions, still one at a time but it's not necessary to go one slide at a time, either:
From the menu bar,
*When clicking Edit Captions you would think it would start editing captions but instead you get the following choices: Edit, Replace, Export, Delete, and Apply to All. Not sure what Apply to All means as it is also shown for Alt Text, too.
Hello. Another user looking for being able to bulk export. I was hoping to a quick and easy way to do a full spelling check on all the captions that I entered. I have 21 scenes and too many slides and layer to count, so exporting one at a time is just not an option, I'm better off just going through and reading each one a couple times and crossing my fingers all are caught. If I could export everything to a word doc, can easily run a spell check and correct errors.
This user is looking for the same ability as well... it's clearly something that would be helpful to many users. Hoping if enough of us comment Articulate will change put this in their roadmap of updates.
For localization projects where it is mandatory to have closed captions in other languages, we need to be able to export the audio transcripts only for translation - so eg the NOTES. at least just the export. The import - obviously has to be done manually for correct syncing.