Forum Discussion
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.
For localization projects where it is mandatory to have closed captions in other languages, we need to be able to export the audio transcripts only for translation - so eg the NOTES. at least just the export. The import - obviously has to be done manually for correct syncing.
Hello Valesa,
It looks like you might have replied by email where your contact details came through to the public forum. Feel free to edit it out right here!
While I'm here, I'll check-in that we are actively tracking requests for exporting all media captions in bulk. Our report is up-to-date with everyone's thoughts here, and we will notify you of any changes!
Thank you.
Just created a course with 160+ media files with closed captions. Just discovered that spell checker:
a) does not check contractions properly
b) does not check closed captions
c) if your lesson is over some unclear size won't export a translation file giving you the ability to spell check externally
d) translation files - when they do work - do not include closed captions.I've seen that this is not on the roadmap for doing anything with and so will continue to be a right royal pain - unless someone in dev has some news?
Hi Bruce,
I appreciate you reaching out and sharing this helpful insight on what you're experiencing. I'm sorry I don't have updates to share for this feature, but I'll add your plus one to our report and let you know when there are any updates to share in this discussion.
+1 Hello, where we need this often and I would think others would as well is when using the awesome feature of creating audio (text-to-speech), which we usually use as temporary or scratch audio.
When we need the professional audio recorded, we need a script to send. Being able to export all of the audio files cc text (we usually have 50-100) to one file easily would make it much easier for us to have a script ready for professional recording vs. select each file one at a time and exporting it. Thanks!
Please add my name to the list for exporting Closed Captions as well. Here is the business case for this feature:
Many of our clients expect a Word doc or PDF of the final produced E-Learning courses we create for them. Particularly for legal compliance courses, the content of the courses needs to be reviewed and edited by legal experts. While the logical solution is to just have them "take the E-Learning course", they OVERWELMINGLY prefer a document to quickly review the content.
We used to just use the NOTES area to add a transcript of any audio, which certainly worked well. But given that your media captions features are so robust (I really like how easy they are to use!) we've been putting captions there AND in the Notes section. While this works, it is redundant and there are a number of times where we update the Captions on the media but forget to update the Notes section.
Thus, if there was an option in the Word export feature to select to export Closed Captions and/or the Notes section, that would be hugely beneficial.
I need this too. I can't believe this isn't already part of the program.
Hi there,
I'm just adding myself to the list of people that would like this feature.
Please add me to having this function. The whole Closed Captioning in SL360 needs to be addressed. No spell check. Exporting captions defaults to a .wav extension in the export window. You have to change the extension. The biggest headache is exporting the CC in to a video file. I've exported a simple 13 slide course to a video file with cc turn on but the final exported video does not have the cc included. So hence I need to redo the captions in my video editor and a bulk export from SL360 would save me a ton of time.
Add my name to the list for this feature. For accessibility we need to have multiple options - voice over, closed captions and a transcript of all audio. We don't always have a text file to begin with so exporting the closed captions would save having to re-type everything a 2nd time (large projects, multiple slides = very cumbersome). Appreciate your help helping us all make eLearning accessible to everyone.
