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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 layer, is brutal.
- LeandroSartori-Community Member
Hello I see this topic is 2 years old, I would like to know if we still don't have the option to export all the closed captions in one document?
- RenGomezStaff
Hi Leandro,
Thanks for reaching out! As I mentioned above, there are no current plans for a feature to export all media captions in bulk, but we'll be sure to jump in here and share any changes if those plans change.
- PeterallenCommunity Member
Export/import captions in bulk is desperately needed by your loyal customers.
- TriciaRansomCommunity Member
Hi everyone, original poster here. Please Articulate, please make this possible. Slide-by-slide and layer-by-layer is not helpful.
Thanks!
- PeterallenCommunity Member
Export AND import, please.
- ThorMelicher-b5Community Member
Tricia and Peter,
I may have a solution that should work for doing a bulk export of captions (sorry, I can't do the bulk import!) If you're interested, would you send me a private message? You can do this by clicking on my name and then click Contact Me. You'll need to be running Windows 10 for this solution to work. I've tested it with a small sample size but I need others to test to see if it works on a larger scale. :)Please note: I would reach out to you with a private message but for some reason my account doesn't seem to be configured correctly when sending messages.
- ThorMelicher-b5Community Member
Peter,
I received your private message. Please let me know if you didn't get my response. - ThorMelicher-b5Community Member
I believe there are two solutions in approaching this problem but they both come up short in that it's not possible to match the original filename to the Storyline named file.
Method 1 -
- Change the extension from your course file from ".story" to ".zip"
- Open the file and navigate to the story\media folder and search for the ".vtt" files.
Method 2 - Publish your course and then translate the generated _caption.js files into something readable.
Thanks Peter for talking through this and pointing out Method 1. Perhaps one day the Media Library will offer a bulk exporter in the future?
- SteveBlane-e48aCommunity Member
How about adding the captions to the translation export?
- ThorMelicher-b5Community Member
Hi, Steve - Not sure what you mean - would you mind enlightening us?
One other thing that I found since my last post is the Media Library within Storyline does make it a tad faster to export your captions, still one at a time but it's not necessary to go one slide at a time, either:
From the menu bar,
- Click View | Media Library
- Select Video
- *Next to Captions, click Edit Captions
- Click Export...
*When clicking Edit Captions you would think it would start editing captions but instead you get the following choices: Edit, Replace, Export, Delete, and Apply to All. Not sure what Apply to All means as it is also shown for Alt Text, too.
- TiffanyDorrisCommunity Member
@Stoyline - can you not add a select box to select the audio/video in the media library you want and then export captions to all of them? It seems like it would be a simple add-on since the media library already groups all the video and audio together and even identifies which ones have captions. They could export as a CSV or even plain text. Video would have to be done separately from audio - but still a lot better than the current option.
- RandyComptonCommunity Member
Adding closed caption export/import with the translation feature seems like a great opportunity!
- RebeccaWilson-5Community Member
Hello. Another user looking for being able to bulk export. I was hoping to a quick and easy way to do a full spelling check on all the captions that I entered. I have 21 scenes and too many slides and layer to count, so exporting one at a time is just not an option, I'm better off just going through and reading each one a couple times and crossing my fingers all are caught. If I could export everything to a word doc, can easily run a spell check and correct errors.
- KierriCoxCommunity Member
This user is looking for the same ability as well... it's clearly something that would be helpful to many users. Hoping if enough of us comment Articulate will change put this in their roadmap of updates.