Captions for Publishing a Course to a Video File

I spent hours and hours inserting captions to match the narration of a course. The client asks if they can have a video file in addition to the SCORM files, and I say NO PROBLEM! Storyline has an export as video option! Oh, hang on. There's no option to include captions. The only option is to RECREATE ALL THE CAPTIONS AGAIN to make an .srt file. Oof.
 

+1 on the export to captions as a single file to accompany the video. I just had a client ask for this, and I'm super surprised it isn't there. I guess I just assumed it was.

Hi, 

Any update on this? I just inserted captions in the video and when I published as video, captions were not included. Are there any other workaround? 

Hi Raya,

No updates yet, but we’ll remain active in our tracking of this request and be sure to update this discussion when we have any news to share!

This is really a frustrating issue!  You can't export a video with captions, you can't download a .srt captions file, you can't import captions files... you need to expedite these requests related to closed captioning.  These are real ADA and 508 concerns as far as accessibility for learners.  And, real concerns as far as software choice.

I just popped in to check on the status of this and I realized the original request is over two years old!

I certainly appreciate the Agile software development process and the fact that there are other priorities, but Meg Mikula is correct. This is a serious ADA and 508 compliance issue. When will we see some movement on this?

I definitely agree with the frustration. I had a few hours of content created for a proof of concept, assuming caption production from text-to-speech was included when publishing to video. It seemed like such an obvious requirement. Only after I was ready to publish  did I realize there was no such feature. I ended up uploading the videos to YouTube as unlisted and used their auto-translate future. I used YouTube studio to edit the machine generated translation, and exported it to an SRT file. All the while, I already had perfectly good closed captions sitting in Storyline that I could not use. 

Please take the time to submit a feature request at  https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request as I do not see this on the Storyline 360 roadmap at https://articulate.com/support/article/Articulate-360-Feature-Roadmap.

It seems silly we pay for storyline yet I have to export to YouTube for auto generated captions then can insert those into scorm only  files and can not export them as mp4’s. Also super frustrating. Please work on this, I mean google meeting does live auto generated captions, there has to be a solution in storyline for this problem. 

Have been following this thread.... surprised I never got a reply to the request and that articulate has yet to address this issue.

Hi All,

Thank you for all your contributions!

We treat each comment here as a vote for a feature idea. That way, we can make sure we accurately document the need. 

To help you plan, we don't have immediate plans to include closed captions when publishing for video. We promise to let you know if that changes.

Given the impact, we will continue our discussions around this feature. That is one of many steps in our feature evaluation process, but I hope it affirms that we are listening. 

Let me know if there's anything else I can do. I'm happy to help!