Hi, we are currently in the process of creating multiple translations in our course catalogue and I am enquiring is there a way in Storyline 360 to bulk export closed caption files? We only send the caption files to the translation company. Any help in this would be very much appreciated.

Here is the work-around I used to easily export 142 caption .vtt files for translation or updating. (see image referenced below) Copy your .story project and do the following steps in your copied version. (#1 in image below) Rename your ".story" file and replace the ".story" portion with ".zip" (#1 in image below)You may need to select your windows folder "view" settings for the file explorer to show file extensions (here's how) Unzip this renamed file and you will see what is in image #3 below Navigate to the "/story" folder and then the "/media" folder (mine is pictured below). This folder contains all your graphics, videos, etc.... and the .vtt files that were either imported by you or generated by the text to speech. DO NOT rename anything anywhere in this process.These .vtt files can be copied out and put back or edited in place. Feel free to try changing some text and experimenting. We still need to make this a ".story" file again. When you unzipped, it likely gave you a new folder that is named after your project (#2 below). Important: you must select all the files that appear inside this folder and not this folder itself. Select all the files that appear in image 3 below and right-click and "send to zipped folder". This new zipped folder can now be renamed to replace the ".zip" extension to be ".story" The "story" file can now be opened normally. If everything is great than this file can become your main project file in place of your backup. Bonus Tip: Use a free text editor program like Microsoft Visual Studio code and right click on the "media" folder and select "open with "VS Code". This allows you to open each file with one click and quickly preview files as well as globally search within files for specific text or spellcheck everything.

Hi Ashley!!I was wondering, is there an update on this topic?

Hello Liam and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :) Storyline 360 has the ability to export your captions as you are asking. Sounds like you may have multiple video files and/or audio files though. I think that would make a great feature and I'm submitting on your behalf. If you have other ideas, please feel free to share here.

Hi Leslie, We are also interested in this feature. Any update on whether it is being considered for a future release? Thanks!

Hi Karen, No updates on this feature yet, but we'll keep you posted here if we do have any more info to share!

Bulk export of .vtt closed captions Storyline 360

39 Replies

KatieRiggio
Staff
6 years ago
Hi, everyone. Your votes are very appreciated! 🌟

If we make changes in this area, we'll keep this conversation updated. You can also keep tabs on all the neat functions we're adding to Storyline 360 on our What's New, What's Next page!
LesterCockerill
Community Member
6 years ago
This is an essential feature needed for translation + 1
DavidNelson
Community Member
6 years ago
I agree. A batch import/export feature for captions would be a step in the right direction. When working with hundreds of videos/audio files, it's extremely time consuming to insert a srt/vtt one by one.
JoeShultheis-63
Community Member
6 years ago
I will put this in this string too. I want to know if there is a converter for .xml file to anything Storyline will recognize for it closed caption file. It would save me days of work in the long run.
- SethOzen-09d419
  Community Member
  6 years ago
  See if this works for you.
  - JoeShultheis-63
    Community Member
    6 years ago
    Thanks Seth,
    I tried that service with no luck. When I uploaded my file it said it does not recognize it as a file it can use, yet it is an .xml file that works fine for the closed captions in FLASH projects. It then said It could do it for a fee. I work for the government and it would be an act of God taking 6 months to get any funds. Thanks though.
    
    Joe Shultheis
Peterallen
Community Member
6 years ago
Please add bulk export!

I find it disappointing that you all implement Closed Captions without a way to bulk export. With so many folks using this APP for localization projects and there's no foresight to include this with the initial feature.
LenTaylor-446d5
Community Member
5 years ago
Any update on this? Would be an excellent time saving feature and encourage more of us to be wise enough to extract for future project updates or a major crash.
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
5 years ago
Hi Len,

Thanks for popping in to share your thoughts.

I do not have an update to share at this time, but I've updated our report to reflect both your latest comment and the user impact since this has come back up.
- LenTaylor-446d5
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  Thanks. Projects are getting larger and more complex and this would be an excellent feature to have.
  
  Len Taylor
  Instructional Designer III
  TBC Corporation
  Phone: 303-589-5081
  FAX: 303-648-6859
  ltaylor@tbccorp.com
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  - VinceScoma
    Community Member
    5 years ago
    Hi Len,
    
    Thank you again for adding your voice! We will be sure to reach back out as soon as we have more details.
    
    It also looks like your email signature came through when you replied via email. You can remove that if needed, and here is a quick Peek video if you need help.
LinaEspinosa-81
Community Member
5 years ago
Any update on this? This is a much needed feature as in most of the projects I am working on, I am creating video tutorials using multiple screen recordings and text to speech audio. Then publishing the file as a video and add it to Rise 360 (video block).

I need to be able to export the VTT files in bulk in order to upload the VTT file to Rise.

Thanks!
- LaurenDuvall
  Staff
  5 years ago
  Hello Lina!
  
  Thanks for checking in and sharing your interest in this feature! I've added your comments to our current feature report. Exporting VTT files in bulk isn't on our immediate roadmap, but we'll share in this discussion when we have an update!
  - LinaEspinosa-81
    Community Member
    5 years ago
    Thanks!
GarimaGupta-473
Community Member
5 years ago
+1
GrahamCohen
Community Member
5 years ago
Adding my vote here. We need this desperately !!!!!!