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TriciaRansom
Community Member
9 years ago

Export closed captions in bulk?

Is it possible to export closed captions in bulk? I have a course with 9 scenes, each scene at least 10-20 slides and/or layers. As you can imagine, exporting the captions slide by slide, layer by l...
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PFitzgerald
Community Member
5 years ago

That's a good question and it looks like my question about adapting the script could have been better worded. The ultimate goal here is to extract all of the timestamped VTT files named as they appear in the Media Library without the need to export each one individually.

Renaming the project from .story to .zip allows you to retrieve all the audio and VTT files at once (as though you went through an clicked "Export" on each Media Library item), but each file has a new generated file name.

The theme.xml.rels file will allow you to match up the generated names of the audio file with the generated names of the VTT files.

But the final step here would be to match up the generated file names with the original file names as they appear in the Media Library.

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    ThorMelicher-b5
    Community Member
    5 years ago
    Peter Fitzgerald

    That's a good question and it looks like my question about adapting the script could have been better worded. The ultimate goal here is to extract all of the timestamped VTT files named as they appear in the Media Library without the need to export each one individually.

    Renaming the project from .story to .zip allows you to retrieve all the audio and VTT files at once (as though you went through an clicked "Export" on each Media Library item), but each file has a new generated file name.

    The theme.xml.rels file will allow you to match up the generated names of the audio file with the generated names of the VTT files.

    But the final step here would be to match up the generated file names with the original file names as they appear in the Media Library.

    Hey Peter!

    That's the problem I ran into a year ago.  Storyline obfuscates the connection so, at least for me anyways, I could never make a direct correlation from the original file to the updated filename.  It's tantalizingly close when you see it in the theme.xml.rels file but that's where it seems to break down.  My hunch is that there's a lookup table created so Storyline can make the connection that we can't see - the table is probably being used *when* the course is published which is why we can't see the gyrations they're doing and hence can't make the correlation between what's published and the actual filename within the course.

    If one could do what you're suggesting then the solution you're proposing wouldn't be difficult to create and there would be a lot of happy users. :)

    Thor

    • PFitzgerald's avatar
      PFitzgerald
      Community Member
      5 years ago

      I could never make a direct correlation from the original file to the updated filename.

      With the help of a couple utilities, I was able to match up the file names by comparing the duration of the original MP3s against those of the renamed files. Certainly not an elegant or foolproof solution, but it could be a timesaver in some cases. Either way, a couple of really useful tools.

      NirSoft SysExporter: Copy details from Windows Explorer columns
      https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/sysexp.html

      Den4B ReNamer: Batch rename files and folders using rules and regular expressions.
      https://www.den4b.com/products/renamer