Captions (Closed and Open)

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Captions: Speech to Text

Captions: Add Captions Manually

Captions display onscreen text within a video to provide additional or interpretive information to viewers.

Captions are used to create videos accessible to a larger audience, such as:

• Viewers with hearing impairments
• Viewers that cannot listen to audio with their current settings
• International audiences with subtitles and onscreen translations for non-native speakers

Camtasia Studio has two options for how captions appear in the final video: closed and open.

• Closed Captions

  For your viewers to make use of this feature, playback in the TechSmith Smart Player is required.

  • Can be turned on and off by the viewer via a CC button on the controller.
  • Can be ADA compliant or customized by changing the font attributes including size, color, and alignment.
  • Can be made searchable in the video when producing as an MP4 video file.
  • Can be hidden to produce a video without captions in it. (Does not delete captions on timeline.)
• Open Captions
  • Can be customized by changing the font attributes including size, color, and alignment.
  • Can be made searchable in the video when producing as an MP4 video file.
  • Are burned into the video and cannot be turned off.
  • Can be located under the video. When the Under video captions option is selected during an MP4 / Flash and HTML 5 custom production, space is automatically added to accommodate the under-the-video captions. This increases the vertical dimensions of the video.

Captioning Methods

There are four ways to add captions to your video:

• Add captions using automatic Speech-to-Text
  Create captions from audio on the timeline. This feature makes use of Microsoft’s Speech-to-Text engine.
• Import a prepared caption file
  Import an SRT, SAMI, or SMI file to automatically sync prepared captions with the video.
• Add captions by synchronizing text and audio
  Paste a prepared script into the text box and synchronize the captioning with the audio playback.
• Add captions manually
  Manually type each caption into the text box. Set caption points to determine where the caption should begin and end.

See also

• ADA Compliancy
• Speech Dictionary
• Import and Export Captions
• Edit Captions