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Closed Captions
I read a post that said Closed Captioning has to be turned on when a brand new project is started. Is this true?
If so how do I turn it on? I cannot find a setting for an option. Any help would be...
Thank you Jeff and Sarah for you responses. I am still trying to understand how Closed Captions work in general. From what I can gather from reading posts and watching YouTube videos, the only way to set up Closed Captions for an entire course (every slide), is to manually click the audio for each slide and manually type the Caption into the little boxes that appear under the audio waves, which is extremely time consuming! I record an audio for every slide. I was assuming that Storyline would be able to transcribe each audio recording for me without having to type every word in manually. Does Storyline do this? if so, how??
The trigger that is explained in this post is assuming that someone has already typed in all the words for every slide - correct? I thought I had seen a post that said there was a project setting that could be turned on at the start so that Storyline would be creating the Closed Captions as each audio recording was being created.
I would be grateful if someone could explain the entire process. I realized that for courses that were created withOUT Closed Captioning turned on, there is no other way to add Closed Captioning but to manually type in each word. But what about a brand new project??
Hi Connie,
While Storyline 360 does not currently autotranscribe audio for closed captions, there are a number of ways you can add captions to a new or existing course.
- As you've already discovered, you can manually add closed captions to a course. You can type the text in, but if you've got an existing script then copying and pasting in your content can save you lots of time. That's actually the approach I use most often.
- As Kami mentioned, you can import your script as text-to-speech audio and Storyline 360 can automatically create your closed caption files for you. One way to do this is to sync up your text-to-speech timing with your recorded audio, export your captions as a VTT file (this is a type of closed captions file), delete the TTS audio track, and then import the VTT captions file to your actual audio track. It's a few steps, but they're all pretty fast and straightforward. And if you need more help, this article goes into a lot more detail about how closed captions work in Storyline 360.
- You can also use a transcription service to create caption files for you. There are a number of services that transcribe audio or video files and then provide you with a closed captions file (such as a VTT or SRT file) that you can quickly import into your Storyline 360 file with just a click. If you happen to have Adobe Premiere, it can also do speech-to-text transcription and export the resulting closed captioning files.
