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How to export complete Close Captioning in Word document
Do storyline has any option to download complete project Close Captioning script in word format, for review purpose.
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As far as I know, captions can only be exported in VTT format which is a plain text file than can be opened in simple text editor such as Notepad or code editors such as VS Code.
How do you export the file in VTT format for all slides?
Was there a resolution to this? I am trying the same.
So far, no that I am aware of. :-(
My understanding is that you would need to do this individually, and the best place to do that from is the media library, under the audio tab.
Articulate, could you at least add an option in Media Library to order the audio by the slide #. That would cut the process by 50%. Right now it is completely random. I export the VTT files and then have to go through every slide to put the files in order.
Some learners need to print out a script, simple request. A terrible task in Storyline 360.
That’s a fair point, allennation-602, this can get time-consuming pretty quickly.
At the moment, captions can only be exported as individual VTT files, and there isn’t a way to sort them by slide in the Media Library. That makes it tough to pull everything together into a full script.
I can see how having them organized by slide or exported in one place would make this much easier. I’ve shared your feedback with the team so we can continue improving this experience.
I gave the script from caption challenge a try today.
1) Tried to export the individual captions from Media Library, all out of order, Nope
2) Tried to export the mp3 files and speech to text in Premiere Pro, too many text issues, Nope
3) Opened each slide, in order, and copied the Text to Speech into a txt document. Took many hours, but done, Ugh!I saw this message a bit late and not sure if this would have helped you anyway as there is still the major task of making sense of each file due to the filenames being system and not human friendly.
The method I use to grab all VTT files is to:
- Make a copy of your Storyline project file
- Change the extension from .story to .zip
- Extract the package
- Navigate to the Media folder
- Copy all VTT files from the folder
It's a good way to grab all VTT files, but the file names are not helpful for humans. They are coded for the project. I'm just sharing this in case it is useful to anybody else who just needs to grab a bunch of assets from a course (video, images, captions) without having to export individualy.
You cannot sort the VTT files in slide order, so you would have to cross reference the VTT files with the slides.
So let me know which is faster, this process or just open the Text to Speech in slide order to create the transcript?
You can use a simple HTML/JavaScript to scan your published story_content folder for _captions.js files and automatically convert them into readable .vtt files saved directly to a folder of your choice.
Since Storyline uses randomized file names, batch-renaming them into the exact slide order isn't straightforward; however, this script solves that by automatically renaming each file using the first few words of the actual narration. This makes it easy to identify which slide each transcript belongs to at a glance. Check out the example in action below.
