NEW IN RISE 360: Closed Captioning

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.

Hi, could you explain how  I convert my transcript Word file to the VTT format?  

So I'm assuming at this point that the text (the content) is formatted appropriately and what you need to do is save the file as the right type.

Word tries to control the document type, but there is a way around this. You need to add the file name and the ending, all in quotes.

When you save your document, you need to select File - Save As, unfortunately in the latest versions on Word, you can't use the window that this provides, it gives an error :( the way around this is to select 'more options', this loads the original 'save as' pop-up window, where the save in quotes works ok.

1. File
2. Save As
3. More options
4. Select file type: plain text (do this before putting the name in or it tries to force the filetype to .txt)
5. Add the name in quotes, e.g. "example.vtt"
6. Save
7. accept formatting as windows default

This should give you a file which is correctly formatted.

It's great that Closed Captions has been added to Rise and from an accessibility perspective that's even better!  I've just added CC to a course I'm building and followed the instructions but I can't test it in Preview mode - the instructions say you have to test it in an LMS or on a web server. 

I'm working with a large organisation at the moment and they have tested the Rise courses we are building from an accessibility point of view. They did come up with a number of issues and I'm aware you are working towards certain enhancements. 

If CC can't be tested in Preview mode, and only exported into an LM or web server, then how should accessibility testing be done? Via a link or should it also be exported to an LMS or web server to get a true testing?

Looking forward to hearing from you :)

Hello, Perry! Try viewing the course Share link, and you should be able to see the closed captions on the video. 

Its great feature specially when it comes with multiple language for CC text. I have tested this with English language and its working perfectly fine. However, when I tried the same for Korean language, the CC text is not visible. 

Could you please suggest what could be the reason? I am using notepad file for CC text and saving them as .VTT format.

For reference I have attached the .vtt files of English and Korean language. Please suggest how to resolve this.

I have a video I created in Adobe Premiere that has captions.  I would like them to be closed captions but .vtt is not an output option for closed captioning in Adobes Media Encoder.  Does anyone know of a work around for this?

This is an awesome feature add-on to Rise 360 application. Thank you for letting us know. I can't wait to try it  in my next project :)

Can you add Closed Captions for audio yet?

I know that with text-to-speech, you get it for free in Storyline videos. But I want to remove the text-to-speech and insert an audio file and have CC for that. Is that doable?

Upon further investigation, it looks like I should be able to import the CC that Storyline has already generated for the text-to-speech audio track and use it for CC for the recorded audio. I discovered the .vtt files in the Media Library. Now all I need to do is figure out where these files are stored so I can point to them and add them as described here:

https://community.articulate.com/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-add-closed-captions

I can right click the text-to-speech audio and click Accessibility to identify the Closed Caption .vtt file. I can then right click the new audio clip I've recorded, click Accessibility, and click Import Captions to select the file. The trouble is I don't know where the .vtt files are stored so I can point to it. 

Then I assume I simply enable the CC button in the player and I have CC for the audio just like I need. 

Please advise.