Create Custom Captions in MiVideo Mediaspace and Canvas

Environment

MiVideo Mediaspace
Canvas

Issue

There are many 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

To create a new captions file from scratch:

1. Navigate to the Edit Media page.
2. 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.

Additional Information

• Check out the new Academic Technology@Michigan website for course planning resources from across U-M
• Visit the Canvas @ Michigan site for faculty including the U-M Instructor Guide with links to additional support resources from across campus
• Check out the Canvas and MiVideo tutorials

For additional questions, please contact the ITS Service Center