youtube closed captions

[visual_Zenith5FAA]

Hello!!!

I am putting in a couple youtube videos in a project. The videos seem to be hit and miss as far as closed captions come. They all have closed captions on youtube but then when I put them in captivate, come seem to have the closed captions, and some don't. Does anyone have any in site???

Thank you!!!

[Paul Wilson CTDP · Accepted solution]

I have found that when you add a YouTube video through either the Media icon or Interactive Video, all controls for YouTube, including the ability to turn on Closed Captions, are unavailable. The video merely plays in time with your slide.

Alternatively, you add a YouTube video using a web object from the Objects icon on the toolbar. Use the embed code which you can get from the YouTube video. It's available if you click on the Share icon and select embed. Make sure the video is large enough to show all the icons including the CC icon for captions.

You can customize the embed code to turn items like Closed Captioning on by default. You can learn more here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters

One thing to remember about this method of sharing video, the owner of the video may not allow video embedding and this will not always work. They may also revoke access to embedded versions of their videos later and break the connection with your course.

[visual_Zenith5FAA]

That is perfect!!! 

Thank you so much!!!!!

I can deal with revoking it later if that comes around. 🙂

[Paul Wilson CTDP]

You're welcome.

[MBrune]

Hi there. I'm using the All New Adobe Captivate and need to do this for a youtube video...is this possible? I don't see a way to add embed code., only a URL and cannot enable captions only through the URL. 

Thank you!

[Lilybiri]

Do you want to create a video with Captivate or to embed a video and add closed captioning to it? New Captivate is limited to responsive projects and those can only be published to HTML, not to passive video.

[MBrune]

Thanks for your response. I want to embed a video that is on YouTube currently. I want the captions to appear when the project is previewed/published, but this doesn’t happen, even if the captions are enabled in YouTube when I copy the URL. Since the video doesn’t have an imported audio track I cannot add captions automatically within Captivate. I’ve tried extracting the audio from the video and important that to create captions, but then I’m having to insert a local file that is too large for the hosting service to manage.

I am currently typing by hand the captions in multi-state text boxes for an hour-long legal video as a workaround and I’d really prefer not to do that if there is another way.

Thank you!
Mary

Moderator: please do not include personal information on a public forum. I took it out this time.

[Lilybiri]

I didn't ask which version you are using. It is possible in Captivate to add CC to videos, but the video need to be synchronised with Captivate's Timeline. That means that you can use it only for slide video, not for event video.

[MBrune]

Moderator, btw, I didn't include personal information in my post...not sure what was removed. 

[RodWard]

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[MBrune]

Oh my goodness. I'm so sorry to hear that. 

[Dirlo]

My god !... She was one of my mentor since I started to use Captivate... I'm so sorry to read this...

I hope she will find peace and love in Another World...