Caption your video

Videos that has been uploaded after the 24th of March, will automatically get generated captions.

It might be easier for your students to hear your voice and read captions at the same time while watching your video. With Studio, you can create and adjust automatic captions in English, Swedish, and a number of other languages.

To optimize the automatically generated captions, and for you to spend as little time as possible editing the captions, please, observe the following recommendations before recording the video you are going to caption:

1. Avoid disruptive sounds by choosing a silent room while recording your video. Wear a headset.
2. Have a script, however short your video might be.
3. Speak clearly. The clearer your speech, the more correct your captions will be.

 

 

Edit and publish your captions

To review and edit the automatically generated captions,

1. Click Captions
   
2. Choose the language

 

Now you can edit the captions taking the following steps:

1. Play your video by clicking play.
2. This is where you see the automatically generated captions.
3. Edit the captions in the text rows below the video.
4. Save the changes when you are done editing. OBS! Your edit will also be saved automatically.
5. Click Publish (up to the right) to publish your captions.

 

Search the captions

You can search your captions to find a certain word. This can come in handy e.g. if you see that the automatically generated captions consistently misspell a certain word.

1. Write the word you want to search for. The word shows up in the captions in a different colour.
2. You can now change that word to the word of your choice. Then, click on Replace all.

 

Adjust captions' appearance

When watching the video, you can make certain adjustments:

1. Toggle captions off or on by clicking the square text icon next to the video timeline.
2. To choose what adjustments you want to make, click on the cogwheel symbol.
3. Change the speed of your video by choosing Speed.
4. To change the appearance of the captions, choose Captions.

After clicking Captions you can make the following adjustments:

1. Change font size
2. Choose caption placement in video (up or down)
3. Choose caption colour (normal or inverted)

 

Captioning an older video

If you want to get an older video captioned, here is how to do it:

1. Click Studio in the green global navigation menu, then go to and click on the video you want to caption.  
2. In the video (or rather below it)- click Captions. 
3. Click Request. 

 

In the window that pops up, choose the language spoken in the video:

Click Request once more. You can now close the page. You will receive an email when the captioning is done. The editing is the done as described above.

 

Captions in other languages

Do you want to add captions in other languages? Here is a guide describing how to do it.