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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 to your Rise 360 courses. Just click Edit and select Manage captions in any block that showcases a video. Select the language, and then add your file. You can add as many languages as you like.
We hope you love this helpful new feature!
Can closed Captions be added to Audio files also?
Seconding this request. Would be nice to have captions with MP3 audio blocks. Not sure we can call those compliant otherwise.
Hi Darren,
Closed captions will appear only when the learner selects a caption language from the CC button. There isn't a way to turn the captions on by default.
Also, closed captions can be added to videos only, not to audio.
When will CC be available for audio?
Hi Alyssa,
I've got the original captions .vtt file, so I'm not looking to simply get a copy of the captions.
I was thinking more that including the captions in the pdf would be more useful to the end user, rather than just an image of the video, they would be able to get some useful information on the video content by reading the captions.
Hey David,
alternatively, you can insert the subtitle into an accordion directly below the video so that it is also displayed in PDF.
That's how we used to provide the transcript before CCs were possible in Rise, now that they are available, we are using them instead as they are the best accessibility option.
I'd rather not have to have the same content in twice or an alternative version of the module just for print variations.
We don't have closed captioning for audio right now, but we'll let you know if we add that feature in the future!
I see that closed captioning is not available for audio files as of this initial post a year ago. I am wondering if it is possibel to do now?
Thanks!
Thanks for checking in, Jamie. While that's not an option right now, we will post an update here if we add that feature to Rise 360 in the future.
Hi there, Kai!
Do you know if your caption file is encoded for UTF-8? If so, all of your characters should display normally.
If your caption file is already encoded for UTF-8 and you're still seeing this problem, please share the VTT file with our team here!
Would it be possible to use the closed captions in the pdf export?
Currently, there is just an image of the video preview, if the video has closed captions, including them in the pdf would be more helpful.
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 Marion,
The easiest way to convert .srt files to .vtt files that I've found is to use the https://www.webvtt.org/ website to convert the contents of the srt files.
- You just open the .srt in a text editor
e.g. 'notepad' in windows - copy/paste the text into the website and click convert
- copy the converted text from the website into a text editor
- save and change the file type to .vtt
e.g. in notepad, change 'Save as type' to 'All files' and add '.vtt' to the end of the File name.
- You just open the .srt in a text editor
WCAG doesn't ask for audio files to be captioned only that an alternative non-timed element is available and that the provision of a transcript may help.
In storyline it make sense to caption the audio as there is normally animation on screen at the same time. Most people read faster than they speak so the provision of a transcript should suffice.
Awesome!!!!
FINALLY! Thank you
