Export to Video and include Captions

Haley, we support both embedded and ride-along cc files from Adobe Presenter Video Express. Another problem that you'll encounter is that if the cc content is riding along in a formatted file, you both need to include the file wherever you put the video - and the video player needs to support the video playback.

In PVX when the captions are embedded, they are burned right into the video itself - so there is no need for any support from the video player, but that also means that there is no way to switch the captions on or off. They are always on once they are burned in.

You could theoretically mirror this behavior even inside a Captivate project by using the export to video feature on a traditional (non responsive project) and adding captions as text strings on each screen to act as CC.

The closed captions themselves however don't burn in during the video publishing process in Captivate. As far as I know, the cc file doesn't automatically get associated / formatted as a cc file when publishing / exporting a Captivate file as video only.

In general you'd want a file like a *.SRT file - which is actually quite simple in structure. Basically you have the caption number, the timecode range, and the caption. You can get the slide number and the caption from Captivate simply by exporting the document closed captions, but it won't tell you the video output time code that correlates to those slides. So if you wanted to hand generate the SRT file you could - but you'd have to do the timings yourself. By that point it would be easier to just upload the video to YouTube and add CC to it there.

Sorry not to give perfect answers here - but I wanted to at least provide some perspective.

--Allen