I'm really excited about the new CC features in Storyline 360! Makes my job a lot easier. I watched the tutorial video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDmg8SrfHSc) on how to use them, and that's great. My question is about those srt files. How are those generated and created? I haven't worked with those before.
Glad you're just as excited about this feature as we are! Storyline supports SRT, VTT, SBV, and SUB files for the captions, and directions on how to generate them are included in the user guide here.
Let us know how it goes, and we'd love to see what you create!
I'm not sure I understand - you'd like to just use the CC button to add additional text to your slides, but not associated it with any videos or audio? The captions ability is supported for audio and video files within Storyline, so you could look at importing an audio file that just had no sound and adding captions to that?
It's a brand new feature for us, so it'll be really interesting to see what the community does with it! I'm always impressed by their ingenuity.
You need to create an art file for the audio files if you name the same as your audio file it will automatically be assigned or you can add after through the UI
Running it through YouTube isn't necessarily a bad thing - the auto captioning is pretty good, and their interface for tweaking captions is pretty much unequaled by other free methods.
Thank you for this thread. I just want to make sure I understand what Phil is suggesting: attach the audio to some video, doesn't matter what, create a video file, upload to YouTube to create the SRT file. Did I get it?
I have used YouTube to create video captions and agree that it is decent.
I have searched for a product that will generate something like what YouTube does but for just audio. No luck so far.
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Hi Stephen,
Glad you're just as excited about this feature as we are! Storyline supports SRT, VTT, SBV, and SUB files for the captions, and directions on how to generate them are included in the user guide here.
Let us know how it goes, and we'd love to see what you create!
So I don't have any videos in my storyline file so how can I use the CC button for slide text?
Hi Will,
I'm not sure I understand - you'd like to just use the CC button to add additional text to your slides, but not associated it with any videos or audio? The captions ability is supported for audio and video files within Storyline, so you could look at importing an audio file that just had no sound and adding captions to that?
It's a brand new feature for us, so it'll be really interesting to see what the community does with it! I'm always impressed by their ingenuity.
I have audio but I would have to run it through UTube to create another text file to load into storyline?
You need to create an art file for the audio files if you name the same as your audio file it will automatically be assigned or you can add after through the UI
Here is a quick example.
ha ha, great example Michael.
Running it through YouTube isn't necessarily a bad thing - the auto captioning is pretty good, and their interface for tweaking captions is pretty much unequaled by other free methods.
Thank you for this thread. I just want to make sure I understand what Phil is suggesting: attach the audio to some video, doesn't matter what, create a video file, upload to YouTube to create the SRT file. Did I get it?
I have used YouTube to create video captions and agree that it is decent.
I have searched for a product that will generate something like what YouTube does but for just audio. No luck so far.
Here is a method I came up with that attaches the audio to an image file and outputs a video file that you can then upload to YouTube:
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/new-storyline-feature-closed-captions#reply-419173
Thank you! I am definitely going to try that. Greatly appreciated.
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