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Synchronize the audio on the Timeline with onscreen caption text.

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Add Captioning

The Open Caption option synchronizes audio with onscreen caption text. Use captions to create videos accessible to a larger audience. With open captioning, you can create videos for:

• Viewers with hearing impairments.
• Viewers that cannot listen to audio.
• International audiences—create subtitles and onscreen translations for non-native speakers.

Add Captions by Synchronizing Text and Audio

With the Sync text and audio option, paste a prepared script into the Caption text box and synchronize the captioning with the audio playback. Add your own text into the captioning text box, such as speaker notes from PowerPoint or a prepared script from any document. If you paste a prepared script, you can save the text for future use and check for spelling and grammar errors.

To add automatic open captions

1. Choose the Captions option in the Task List.
2. The Open Captions page appears. Copy a script to the clipboard.
3. Click the Paste button to paste the script into the Caption text box. The caption text appears in the Preview Window. After the first three lines of text in the Caption text box, the text turns from black to red. The text turns red to remind you that anything over three lines is not included in the current caption.
4. Click the Start button to begin setting caption points to synchronize the script with the audio. The video plays back from the beginning of the Timeline.
5. To set a new caption point, click on any of the words within the Caption text box.

Try moving the mouse cursor over the first red word. Listen to the audio and when you hear that word during playback, click on the word with your mouse cursor. A caption point is set at that exact location. As a result, three lines of text in the text box turn black and the rest of the text turns red indicating where the new caption point should begin.

6. Continue to set caption points until all the text is black.
7. Click the Stop button to end the captioning process.
8. Click Finished.

Captions display in the video until you enter a new caption. Insert a blank caption to not display any captioning for a portion of the video.

Select the Caption Display

Choose from the following caption display options on the Open Captions page:

• Overlay: Places captions on the video.
  

• Underlay: Places captions underneath the video.
  

• Display: Displays captions in the video. For overlayed captions, you can toggle the captions on or off in the produced video.