Creating an MP4 in Storyline to embed into Rise

Hi Bridget,

That's a great question! The article Bridget linked to is perfect for finding out how to add closed captions/subtitles to a video in Rise with a VTT file. But if you don't already have a VTT file of your captions, there are a few ways in addition to Microsoft Stream to create it.

• Manually create one in Notepad (here’s a tutorial). This works especially well if you have a script and are just adding in the time markers.
• Use a transcription service. If you don't already have a script or if you don't want to have to manually add in your time markers, then this is a faster option. Transcription services will, using human and/or ai transcribers, create the entire transcript with timing for you. I've personally used Otter.ai and liked it (although you have to convert the SRT file it gives you to VTT - which is easy, but an added step). I've heard other L&D people mention liking the results from rev.com, and there are a number of other freemium and paid services like this available too.
• Use YouTube's automatic subtitles. You can also use the auto subtitling features in YouTube to generate a VTT subtitle file for free and then download it from your account.

Side note: always review the accuracy of the transcription if you didn't do it yourself - especially AI generated ones, as they rarely are 100% perfect.

While creating a VTT file like this definitely takes more time than putting your transcript in a resource tab, the closed captioning it provides does tend to lead to a better learner experience. So that bit of extra work often is worth it.