How to add subtitles to videos

Mar 16, 2015

Nathan Broadrick
By Nathan Broadrick

I know Storyline states that it is 508 Compliant but I cannot find how to add subtitles (closed captions CC) to a video.  A person who cannot hear has to be able to read what is happening on videos in my slides.

Does anyone know how to do this?  If Storyline can indeed do this function, it isn't very well documented (at least that I can find).  It would make life really easy if it could read a normal .xml CC file (or .smi file).

Thanks for any assistance you may provide.

4 Replies
Nathan Broadrick
9 years ago03/16/15 at 7:40 pm (UTC)

Thanks Wendy for taking the time to reply.

I had seen this video before but didn’t really think it was “the” solution to handle my subtitles. It seemed kind of clunky and not too efficient. I can’t see myself doing this for a ten minute video with dialog all the way through. I have to admit, I am comparing Storyline to Adobe’s Captivate. I thought Captivate’s captioning was awkward but it’s a far better and easier solution, in my opinion, than Storyline’s.

I do think Storyline is overall better than Captivate. I just wish there were easier ways to add subtitles.

But I do thank you again for your time and assistance. ☺

Nathan

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