How to create default settings for captions of screen recordings?

Hi Patrick, this would be a nice feature to have but there is no way to change the default settings. 

Thanks for the reply Nancy,

I agree with you that it would be a nice feature but when you say there is no way to change the default settings: surely that was the purpose of the "Set As Default Shape" option when you right click on a shape?

Posts on the Storyline forums suggest that this is a bug (both in Storyline 1 and 2?).

I will submit a feature request / request for to be fixed.

It seems to be an area where Storyline 2 is behind Captivate as Captivate allows you to predefine and set default captions. It also allows you to make global changes to objects in a couple of different ways:

Apply To All Items - To apply the effect to all objects that belong to the object type.

Apply To All Items Of Same Style - To apply to all objects that use the same object style.

I will submit this too.

Thanks again for your response

Hi Patrick, I've used the captions in Captivate and agree they are better. You can even import your own which is kind of cool. It would be great if the Storyline captions worked this way.

I don't think the "Set as Default Shape" was intended for captions but I could be wrong.

Hi Patrick,
I am also looking for the same. Could you please keep posting if you have any update or any solution.

Thank you,
Nazeeruddin

Hello Nazeeruddin and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

Thanks for contacting us and sharing that you are looking for a similar solution.

You can change the default color and font style of your captions. Check out this guide on how to customize your screen recording captions. 

If you'd like to make further customizations, you can format the first caption manually, then use format painter to apply the customization to the rest of the captions.

Hi Leslie,

I thank you for your response on my request.

Yes I agree with you, currently i am using the same tip for formatting the captions. and the Highlighter rectangular box.

It would be very helpfull and time saving for our projects if we would be having these in a theme before starting the recording.

Regards,
Nazeeruddin

Thanks for sharing your additional thoughts and feature idea, Nazeeruddin. 

We do have an open feature request for the ability to:

Set default hint caption style for screen recordings

I've added this conversation to the report. I also wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.