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Short closed caption are not being recognized by Storyline 360
I use a separate workflow to generate clean .srt caption files for my instructional videos. Ideally, I then want to be able to quickly add each .srt to the corresponding videos in Storyline and be done. But I've noticed that when I play the course afterwards, some captions are being dropped. It looks like this happens when the caption is shorter.
Please see the following Storyline file to see an example. I used short_test.srt for slide 1 and short_test_2.srt for slide 2. The two .srt files contain the same captions, but the timestamps are shifted to see if it has any effect (it doesn't).
Notice that the first 2 captions ("To give" and "us a specific goal") are dropped, and only the third long one is captured.
Expected behavior: All captions, whether short or long, are recognized by Storyline upon closed caption import, so that there are no gaps in closed captions.
It's very time-consuming to comb through a large volume of instructional videos (courses are hours long) and we don't have the capacity to do this every time we create instructional content. This ultimately hurts our users relying on closed captions, who get confused / miss out on important context during the instructional videos due to the dropped captions.
Note: It looks like this doesn't accept .srt file uploads, so I'll paste them below here. You can copy-paste these into a text file and give it extension .srt to recreate.
short_test.srt:
1
00:00:00,346 --> 00:00:00,713
To give
2
00:00:00,713 --> 00:00:00,747
us a specific goal
3
00:00:00,747 --> 00:00:04,117
as to what to include in our baker report
we're creating from scratch,
short_test_2.srt:
1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,300
To give
2
00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:00,350
us a specific goal
3
00:00:00,350 --> 00:00:03,300
as to what to include in our baker report
we're creating from scratch,
1 Reply
- rachelatkaiserCommunity Member
DLearning​ How are you creating these caption files? The time intervals of the first two captions in both files seem crazy short to me. It personally takes me 1.5-2 seconds to say, "To give us a specific goal." It seems a little unrealistic to not have hit the one-second mark by the third caption in both files. I wonder if something may be a little off with the captions.
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