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NEW IN RISE 360: Closed Captioning
We’ve just released a powerful new feature in Rise 360: closed captioning. Now you can upload closed caption files to videos to make your content more accessible.
It’s easy to add closed captions...
The Web VTT format / standard is set by the w3 consortium. This is their official page for it https://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1 it has examples and you can get quite fancy with the formatting, they have lots of examples of how to do the formatting. For a basic file though it's easy:
- Make a plain text file and save it with the file type at the end of the file name as .vtt
- Start the Text file with "WEBVTT"
- separate captions / content with 2 line breaks between each caption / content
- time code is on the line before each caption in the format hh:mm:ss.fff or mm:ss.fff
Most basic example:
WEBVTT
00:00.000 --> 00:08.000
This is a test.
00:08.000 --> 00:40.000
This is the second line.
00:50.000 --> 01:05.000
This is the final line.
The captions will show in this example between 0-8 seconds, 8-40 seconds and 50s - 1min 05s.
Hope that helps.
