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GrahamCohen
Community Member
2 years ago

Closed Captions Editor not Loading

Is anyone having issues with the Closed Captions editor not loading the VTT file?  I have a course i've built for a client and each slide has an audio file embedded into it.  All of these audio files have closed captions added and it's been working just fine.  Suddenly I cannot edit my captions.  I select any slide and select the audio file and press the Edit Captions button.  the captions editor loads but I get a constant three dots loading and get nothing to load.  I can leave it for an hour but nothing will ever load.  I'm not a new user and have been building courses for a long time and have never had this issue in the past.

I've attached a screen shot of what i'm seeing.  Anyone have any ideas?  I'm using the latest build of SL360.  

  • GrahamCohen's avatar
    GrahamCohen
    Community Member

    Thanks Joe.  I did open a case and am working with Cleo to try and rectify this.  I've done a complete uninstall, clean up, deleted all old temp files and a fresh install and still it's the same.  I did find a log that indicates a failure to load the ffmpeg app upon load of the captions editor so I updated that app and reset my environment variables which has now got the editor to launch eventually after multiple relaunch attempts until it finally applies but it's not 100% by a long stretch.  But at least it gave me a chance to finish off my clients project.

    • JoseTansengco's avatar
      JoseTansengco
      Staff

      Thanks for the update. If the issue persists, we recommend continuing to work with my colleague Cleo so we can find you a solution that fixes the issue permanently. We're glad to help! 

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    GrahamCohen
    Community Member

    Further to this.  I've totally rebooted my computer, reinstalled Articulate 360, created a brand new file and imported an audio file and tried to create new captions but whatever I do, the editor will not launch.  It just hangs upon start up.  I'm baffled at this point.