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Closed Captioning without Audio
Hello,
Will Storyline 360 allow you to use closed-captioning text without audio?
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Hi, Wendy.
You can add captions to either video or audio on the timeline. If you insert a video, it doesn't need to have audio to let you add captions. Similarly, if you add a silent audio file, it will still allow you to add the captions.
Here's a quick workaround:
- Click on Insert -> Audio. You can choose Text-to-Speech and type or copy/paste your text.
- Make sure Generate Closed Captions is checked.
- On the timeline, right-click the audio track and choose Edit Audio.
- Select the entire sound wave, then click Silence.
Let me know if this works!
I am after a way to keep captions permanently on when I output to video. Is there a way to do this please? (We host in Vimeo and captions have to be turned on manually there, but we just want them permanently on instead). Thanks
Hello Diane,
There currently isn't a way to overlay the closed captions on top of the published video output of a Storyline 360 course. You'll need to use a third-party application to join the two together. Here's a sample application that I found by doing a quick Google search, but you can also select one that better fits your preferences.
