Stream automatically generates a transcript to accompany every upload, livestream and screen recording added to the site. You may also add secondary transcripts, called Subtitles, in order to have transcripts in other languages. The CC button may be turned on to view a certain transcript. While uploading, you may forgo adding either feature to your content.
You can't autogenerate captions if you have already uploaded a caption file.
You can't upload a caption file if you have selected the Autogenerate a caption file option.
University Policy: Public-facing video content must be captioned. Note: videos within your HuskyCT course are not public facing.
Turning on Captions
To view captions (a certain transcript), simply click on the CC button in the video window.
Continue below to learn how to add secondary transcripts.
Autogenerating captions (transcript)
A transcript is generated automatically by default. When uploading a video, you have the choice of un-checking the box to skip a transcript generation. When un-checked, the option to upload your own transcript appears.
Adding Subtitles (secondary transcript)
Adding subtitles allows you to have transcripts that are in different languages; these subtitles will appear on top of the video. The subtitles need to have similar timestamp formatting as the original transcript. To find this formatting, download the original transcript and then edit the text to reflect the new language.
Allow your video upload to auto-generate captions.
Navigate to your video on Stream.
On the video-viewing page, click on the ellipsis and choose Update video details.
Click on Download file in the Captions section.
The downloaded file can be opened in Notepad, Notepad++, Word, or other text editing program. Look below for appropriate instructions
Find your downloaded
.vtttranscript file.Right-click on the file and choose Open with and choose Notepad from the list.
Replace the transcript text with your desired language. You may edit the timecodes to change how long the text appears on screen, but be careful that captions do not overlap.
When ready, save the file by clicking on File → Save or by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + S.
Find your downloaded
.vtttranscript file.Right-click on the file and choose Open with and choose Word from the list.
The default formatting option, Unicode UTF-8 will work for this.
Replace the transcript text with your desired language. You may edit the timecodes to change how long the text appears on screen, but be careful that captions do not overlap.
When ready, save the file by clicking on the save icon (floppy disk icon). Click Yes on the popup to maintain the formatting and
.vttfile extension.
6. Return to your web browser where you downloaded the original transcript and click on Upload a subtitle file.
7. First select the language of your new transcript, and then upload the newly created file.
8. Click Ok and then you are done.