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KevinThorn
4 years agoSuper Hero
Closed-captions by default
Is there a way to enable audio closed-captions by default? There is no setting in the Player Properties other than the CC button either showing or not showing, but nothing to toggle the captions "on...
DavidSchwartz-f
Community Member
Hi Kevin,
You can put a trigger on your first slide to set the built-in variable Player.DisplayCaptions to True when the timeline starts. That will turn it on essentially by default.
KevinThorn
4 years agoSuper Hero
Thanks, David. Yes, I'm aware of the variable but I failed to add context to my initial question. Edited above, but the question was posed in my fundamentals workshop today. Without getting too deep into variables, I said why don't we ask the community.
It does seem odd that a checkbox of sorts is not on the Player Properties to default to CC "on" or "off" though. Thanks for posting!