New Storyline Feature: Closed Captions
Mar 07, 2017
Hey folks,
We just released a new feature for Storyline 360: Closed Captions! This is one of our most requested features, and allows you to add closed captions to both video and audio (narration).
Storyline supports the standard Closed Caption formats in use today: .srt
, .vtt
, .sbv
and .sub
. These are super easy to create with a range of third party tools such as YouTube (we’ll add a simple caption editor in a future update, coming soon).
You can specify a custom font in player properties, and choose whether to use a built in player control or roll your own button with the new Player.DisplayCaptions
trigger. As you’d expect, everything works seamlessly across desktop, tablets and phones.
Check out Arlyn’s video for more info:
And here's the full Closed Captions Documentation.
To get started, just update your 360 Desktop App and then update Storyline 360.
For an overview of everything in the March ’17 update, see our What’s New Page
Thanks,
Simon
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Yeah, it's the same issue. We are looking at it.
I currently put my CC in Notes, would be neat if there was a way to take your notes and convert them to CC. Looking forward to an Articulate solution rather than 3rd pay for CC. Is there any way force CC on during initial startup. We keep our courses in English but we CC in multiple different languages.
I've also noticed that when I enlarge the player font size (in order make closed captions larger), the preview accurately reflects my changes.
When the file is published, the player labels are enlarged but the cc is not.
Any idea what could be causing this? It happens when publishing with Flash/HTML 5 instead of HTML5/Flash.
Also, I would prefer that the cc be bigger while the player labels remain the same size. Is there anyway to change just the cc size and not the player label size?
Hello Janet!
We do have an issue reported to our team specifically for the closed caption font size in the Flash output, which sounds like what you are experiencing as well.
I will add your response to our internal report as we track user impact and will allow me to update you here as well.
Hi Leslie,
thanks for the update! Do you have an idea when this might be fixed? I know Flash is going away, eventually, but we still need to publish to Flash first for now.
The project I'm working on will be due within the week. :-)
Thank you!
Janet
Hi Janet!
I do not have a timeline to provide.
This document may be helpful in understanding how we tackle these bugs.
Janet, we are close to a fix for the Flash issue internally. We will have an update for this as soon as possible.
It's understandable that formatting/position/size things are hardcoded for sake of accessibility. I feel like allowing to change the background color of the closed caption and font color would, however, make closed captions more versatile without taking anything away from the accessibility part.
Wow, I have done a lot of reading and I am still not clear on this process. I generated all of the audio using the recording feature within Storyline 360. What is my next step? Do I need to go to a third part application to create my caption files? If so, where do I go to get my audio files? Do I need to publish first in order to see them? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have viewed the thread Storyline 360: Importing Closed Captions for Narration and Videos, but that still didn't seem to answer my questions.
Hi Troy! Sorry if this is confusing. You can do it how you choose :)
Importing Closed Captions for Narration and Videos
Creating and Editing Closed Captions with the Built-In Editor
So, the second way to create within Storyline may work best for you.
Thanks Leslie. I didn't realize that I did not have the latest version of SL360. Once I updated, this is now beginning to make sense.
There is no way to change where on the screen the closed captions appear... correct?
Glad you were able to track down that update then Troy :) Glad you're headed in the right direction now.
You are correct, the closed captions appear where you see them in the preview window.
Is this going to be made available in Storyline 3?
Hey Janet and Cynthia :)
Great news! We just released another update for Articulate 360, and included a few important fixes and new features that you'll see in the release notes here.
The Storyline 360 item you'll be interested in is how:
Special characters, such as accented letters and apostrophes, weren't displaying correctly in closed captions in Flash output.
Just launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button for each application. Details here.
Please let us know if you have any questions, either right here or by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.
Thank you Leslie for the heads up! I will warn my team about the update right away.
Good news! Thanks for the info!
I have exactly the same question as Andrew: How to toggle on/off a "notes" box that appears at the right hand side of the slide.
Hi Matthias and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
I wasn't sure if you'd seen the idea and sample that Malcolm shared here.
Hopefully that will work for you.
My apologies for asking this here, but where would I submit a suggestion to be taken into consideration for implementation in a future update?
No apologies needed Brian. You are welcome to share those ideas and suggestions here.
I am having that same issue too. Did you ever get it resolved? I have the box checked to show captions in the player. One thing I thought it might be is that I added the trigger to start the CC at the beginning of the timeline. Then we decided not to do it that way and I deleted the trigger.
The caption button disappears in preview mode and also the published file in story_html5.html but appears in story_flash.html.
Here is the screen shot with no CC button.
Kathy I will take a look, thanks.
Kathy, I was not able to duplicate the issue. Would you be able to send me the project file?
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