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New in Storyline 360: Customize Closed Captions
Have you ever added closed captions only to realize they're covering up important slide content? Or maybe you wanted to change the colors to fit your brand guidelines? If so, you're in luck! With two cool new features, you can now choose the color and placement of your captions. That way, you can ensure all learners can access video content without hiding essential information or compromising design.
Ready to customize your captions? In the player properties window, select Colors & Effects on the ribbon, then choose your color and placement preferences. It’s that easy! Plus, in the same window, you get a glimpse into how your captions will display to learners.
And that’s not all! We also reorganized the player properties window into two sections—player and closed captions—so selecting the options you need is easier than ever.
Articulate 360 subscribers can access these features immediately. If you don't have Articulate 360, start a free 30-day trial. Learn more about these features and closed captions in Storyline 360 by checking out these resources:
Hi Everyone!
Happy to share that we've just released a new update for Storyline 360!
In Build 3.105.35604.0 we’ve included essential fixes and new features. One of the bugs we’ve fixed is:
- Black border/outline shows around closed caption text
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You’ll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let us know if you have any questions about this update, or the issue you reported!
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This is a welcome addition but I think it's still ways to go. Viewers should be able to control the appearance of captions, not just us authors.
With most players that offer captions, you, the learner/viewer can control colour, size, position, etc.
You might be fine as the author setting the caption colour to be yellow with a black background but the next user may not.
The newly added transcripts can be moved around the player by the user, so I think the same should be done with captions.
I would say it's a good start. However, many times the positioning of a closed caption location, or the color of the background can vary depending on the content of the slide. It would be a nice future optimization if closed captions can be positioned or formatted for each slide.
