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Activating subtitles / Closed Captions by default
Hello,
I want to display subtitles by default on a video in Rise360.
So I Edit the video and upload a vtt file. Then on the video the user can click the CC button to display the subtitles I choose.
Is there a way where the learner doesn't need to activate the subtitles, and that it can already be on a defined langage (or the only one in my case), instead of the default: "Caption off"?
Thank you
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+1 for this, since it has not gotten attention much lately. This would be especially useful for me and my team as we are looking into Localization.
Hi LaurenBuchsb601! Thanks for sharing this with us. We understand how important it is for your learners to see captions right away, especially when you’re building localized courses and want the experience to feel seamless.
We’ve shared this with our product team so they know this matters to you and your team.
Hi - we really need this too - our Rise courses embed vital information in the CCs for each video and we translate them into many languages - it seems a bit antiquated to have to always include an "instructions" page at the beginning of each course reminding users to manually turn on closed captions (and as our courses have something like 50-100 videos per course, it's quite a sub-optimal user experience too)... can we possibly bump this up the list at all please? (the original request was 3 years ago it seems)
Hi Stuart,
Thanks so much for following up on this and sharing how helpful it would be. I've shared your feedback with our developers so we'll update this discussion when we have news!
Hi Eric,
When I make multilingual courses, I usually create a copy of the course in Rise and then translate the whole thing. In such a translation, there would be no reason NOT to show the subtitles automatically. The learners are not always familiar with Rise and need to be instructed to enable the subtitles.
Our solution for now is to bake the subtitles into the video, but that's extra effort from our side. It would be great if the VTT subtitles could be enforced or at least be enabled by default.
Thanks for sharing your input, Maxcademy! Multilingual courses are indeed a good use case for this feature request. I've informed our product team of your comments.
We'll update this discussion if there are any changes that will help.
Hi Maxcademy,
Thanks for reaching out. I'd be happy to add your vote to the feature request we are tracking in this post, which is to add the option to show closed captions automatically in Rise 360.
I just want to check whether you have additional comments you want to share with our product team that may be tailored to your particular use case. Feel free to share them with us here, and I'll relay them to our product team!
+1
This featured would be very useful.
Also, if a module has multiple videos, it's not very user-friendly to require CCs to be activated on each individual video. Activating CCs once should activate for all, as is the case with slides in Storyline.
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts, Paul; I have informed our engineering team of your input! We'll be sure to update this thread if any adjustments are made to this feature in the future.
Is this still not available?
+1 for this feature, would be very useful.
In Premiere Pro, burn subtitles to video directly, without vtt file.
You can output the video with subtitles to MP4 if they are displayed directly, Burn subtitles to video.
How do I turn off the subtitles?
+1 Pinktum (https://pinktum.com) also votes for adding such an option to the Rise development environment
