Adding captions to videos

Captions help expand the accessibility of your course, making your content easier to engage with by a wider, more diverse audience. You can upload caption files to your videos to provide closed captions for learners who are deaf or hard of hearing, or subtitles for those who may not speak the language used in the video.

You can add multiple caption files at once to a video, allowing your users to choose the captions that will assist them best. The captions can be toggled on or off using the CC button on the video container.

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Contents

1 Before you begin

2 Adding captions to a video in your Project

3 Adding captions to a video in your Asset Library

 

Before you begin

You must upload a video to your course first before you can add captions to them. See Adding videos to your course to learn how to do this.

We support caption files in either VTT or SRT format. 

Note: It is only possible to add captions to videos that you have uploaded to Elucidat.

To enable or add captions to a video embedded from a third-party service like Youtube, you will need to set it up at the provider's side.

 

Adding captions to a video in your Project

1. In your Project, go to the page containing the video you'd like to add captions to

2. Select the video component to highlight it—you'll know its highlighted by the blue border surrounding it

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3. From the editing toolbar on the right hand side, select the Video button to open the video settings (elucreate-toolbar-video-icon)

4. Select Add subtitles

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5. Select Add files to browse your computer and choose the caption file you'd like to upload

6. Set the IETF code for the subtitle file in the Language Code field

You can continue adding subtitle files by selecting Add files

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7. Select Upload file to add your subtitles to your video

 

 

Adding captions to a video in your Asset Library

1. On the Create homepage, select Asset Library from the sidebar menu

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2. Find the video you'd like to add captions to in your Asset Library

3. Select the video to view its details

4. Switch to the Subtitles tab

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5. Select Add files to browse your computer and choose the caption file you'd like to upload

6. Set the IETF code for the subtitle file in the Language Code field

7. Select Upload file to add your subtitles to your video

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