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JakobLapsley
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8 years ago
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Captions for Publishing a Course to a Video File

Thank you for the new option to publish storyline course directly to video. This is very helpful. Is there a way to export one caption file for all slides in the Storyline file? I see an export op...
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  • KellyAuner's avatar
    KellyAuner
    3 years ago

    Hi, everyone!

    I have some great news to share. We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 73, we’ve included important fixes and new features!

    One new feature we’ve included:

    Boost video accessibility by including closed captions when publishing projects as MP4 video files.

    To take advantage of this update, launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.

    Please let me know if you need additional help!

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NikkiMay-4e0419
Community Member
8 years ago

Hi Leslie,

Thanks for the update. I've tried to be inventive and find a way around this problem, but have encountered ANOTHER issue, which I'll describe here as you said this conversation is linked to the feature request. Hopefully someone will understand my pain!

Following your response I decided to export my Storyline MP4 video and import it into Replay so I could re-do the captions there (as I know from previous use that Replay DOES export to MP4 with captions. I then established that Storyline can export caption files, so I exported all 16 of my caption files as .VTT files but I then discovered that Replay does not import caption files...

Not to be outdone, I managed to find a convoluted way to open the .VTT files in Google Chrome, so that at least I could copy and paste each individual caption into the 'Lower Third' function in Replay, which I proceeded to do in painstaking fashion...

So, I get approximately halfway through the video, and to my complete dismay, just ONE of the original Storyline captions is suddenly there on the screen, and to make it worse, it STAYS on the screen for the rest of the video...so there is nothing I can do to remove it. I'm back to square one...I replayed the original MP4 exported from Storyline and realise that Storyline did indeed export just ONE of my captions and left it on screen, but how??

My next course of action is to go back to Storyline, and DELETE every single caption, then export it to MP4 again and then use the caption files I have already exported to add them back into the Lower Third in Replay. 

I have to admit I'm slightly simmering about this, as I'm now a week behind my promised delivery date and still haven't yet delivered. My customer has been very nice about it, but I feel like a bit of an idiot!

I've attached a screenshot showing the point where the rogue original Storyline caption appears...