MiVideo: Custom Captions

Environment

MiVideo Mediaspace
Canvas

See related Media Captioning articles for more information about captions.

Issue

There are several ways to create captions in MiVideo for video and audio:

  • Free machine-generated English captions are automatically ordered for all video and audio you add to your My Media library after 4/22/2024. 
  • Machine-generated captions for media added to your My Media prior to 4/22/2024 can be manually ordered. 
  • Professional human-generated captions can be ordered with a shortcode. 
  • Professional human-created captioning due to an SSD accommodation can be ordered through the SSD office.
  • Machine-generated captions for several source languages other than English are supported.
  • You can also upload a text transcript file generated from another source, such as Zoom, and order text-alignment which creates a new captions file in MiVideo.

In some cases you may want to create your own captions from a blank file, for example if the video is in a language not supported by MiVideo's machine-generated service.

Resolution

Notes

  • To edit a media entry you have to be the media owner or co-editor of the content. See the Media Collaboration and Roles article for information about ownership.
  • The editing tabs may vary depending on your role.
  • To edit the media file (trim, chop, splice, copy, and add hotspots and Interactive Video Quizzes) see the Video Editor articles.
  • MiVideo supports SRT captions file format.
  • You can upload more than one caption file. For example, you may have captions in more than one language.

Upload captions file

Canvas

  1. Navigate to Account > My Media > pencil icon next to the media item or from the Media page, click Actions > Edit.
  2. Select the Captions tab. If the media item is an image or audio file the Captions tab won’t be displayed.
  3. Click Upload captions file and select your SRT file
  4. Choose the language the caption file is in from the Language drop-down box.
  5. Enter the text Label (usually the same as Language) that will display in the video player.
  6. Click Save.
  7. Once captions are added to a video, viewers will have the option to enable captions in the video player by clicking the closed captions "CC" icon.

Mediaspace

  1. Navigate to the user drop-down menu > My Media > pencil icon next to the media item or from the Media page, click Actions > Edit.
  2. Select the Captions tab. If the media item is an image or audio file the Captions tab won’t be displayed.
  3. Click Upload captions file and select your SRT file
  4. Choose the language the caption file is in from the Language drop-down box.
  5. Enter the text Label (usually the same as Language) that will display in the video player.
  6. Click Save.
  7. Once captions are added to a video, viewers will have the option to enable captions in the video player by clicking the closed captions "CC" icon.

Create a new captions file

Canvas

  1. Navigate to Account > My Media > pencil icon next to the media item or from the Media page, click Actions > Edit.
  2. Select the Captions tab > Create New Captions button.
  3. Select the source language and enter a label for your captions.
  4. The Captions Editor will open to a blank captions file. See the Edit Captions in Canvas and MiVideo Mediaspace article for more info about using this tool.

Mediaspace

  1. Navigate to the user drop-down menu > My Media > pencil icon next to the media item or from the Media page, click Actions > Edit.
  2. Select the Captions tab > Create New Captions button.
  3. Select the source language and enter a label for your captions.
  4. The Captions Editor will open to a blank captions file. See the Edit Captions in Canvas and MiVideo Mediaspace article for more info about using this tool.

Manage captions files

Use the icons next to each caption file to manage that file:

  • Check mark icon: Set the default caption (important when you have more than one caption file).
  • Pencil icon: Edit the language and/or label.
  • "X" icon: Delete the caption file.
  • Down arrow icon: Download the file to your computer.
  • Player icon: By default captions are displayed on the video. Clicking this icon removes captions from the video and strikes out the icon.

Additional Information

Resources and Questions

For additional questions, please contact the ITS Service Center.

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