Captioning Panopto Recordings
Panopto can add automatic speech recognition-generated captions to your Panopto
recordings. These display as a scrolling transcript and/or closed captions. The scrolling
transcript is interactive. This means that the viewer can click on a section of the
transcript to jump to that section of the video.
Notes:
• Machine-generated captions do not provide the same accuracy as human
transcription. Machine-generated captions need to be revised and edited to ensure
they are 100% accurate. This guide outlines the process for importing automatic
captions so you can successfully edit them.
• Recordings using the Panopto Capture option will have automatic captions added
automatically. You will not need to enable them manually. You may edit them once
they are available.
Warning: While automatic captions are now available for other languages, English is
still the only language which seems to be fairly accurate. Please keep this in mind before
attempting to use automatic captioning with the other languages.
Contents
Captioning Panopto Recordings............................................................................... 1
Contents ........................................................................................................... 1
Video Tutorials ................................................................................................... 2
Navigating to Your Video(s) ................................................................................. 2
Importing Automatic Captions.............................................................................. 2
Adding an Existing Captions File ........................................................................... 3
Editing Captions ................................................................................................. 6
Adding a Transcript ............................................................................................ 9
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Captioning Panopto Videos
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Viewing Video Captions - Panopto Support
Navigating to Your Video(s)
Depending on how you’ve added Panopto videos to your course, you may navigate to
your linked Panopto Recordings or to an individual embedded video. Note for either
method: Settings will allow you to import an existing caption file. Edit will allow you to
import an existing caption file, import automatic captions, and/or edit captions.
To navigate to Panopto Recordings:
1. After logging in to D2L and selecting the correct course, select the module that
contains the link for Panopto recordings. Click the Panopto link.
2. Find the recording to which you wish to add captions and click on it.
3. In the top toolbar, click the Edit (pencil icon).
To navigate to an individual embedded video:
1. After logging in to D2L and selecting the correct course, find the individual
embedded video in the course.
2. Click on the Watch in Panopto button (forward arrow icon).
3. In the top toolbar, click ther Edit (pencil icon) to access the tools you need.
Importing Automatic Captions
1. Navigate to your Panopto video.
2. Go to Edit (pencil icon).
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Import automatic captions option. (Double check the Language is set
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4. Panopto will provide a scrolling transcript powered by automatic speech
recognition.
This transcript may be more or less accurate, depending on a variety of speaker and
recording tools factors. This gives you a great base to start from which is already time-
stamped. Even if the automatic voice recognition is accurate for each word spoken, you
will typically still need to edit for capitalization, punctuation, preferred spelling, etc.
Adding an Existing Captions File
In the event you already have an accurate captions file, you may upload it to Panopto
with your video.
Note: Panopto currently supports the following caption file types: .srt, .ashx, .vtt, and
.dxfp. In the event that you have an unsupported file type (such as a time-stamped .txt
file), you may try the free 3Play Media Captions Format Converter
(https://www.3playmedia.com/solutions/features/tools/captions-format-converter/).
To add your captions file to your Panopto video:
1. Navigate to your Panopto video.
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4. Navigate to your captions file, select it, and click Open
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7. Once the captions are imported, you’ll see this message: Captions are available
for this session. To request or upload new captions, delete the current
captions.
8. Now, when you go back to your video, you will be able to view the scrolling
transcript and the closed captions.
a. Access the scrolling transcript by clicking on captions.
b. Access the closed captions by clicking on Show Captions button (green CC
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Editing Captions
1. If you aren’t already in the Edit screen, go to the Edit (pencil icon) option, and
click on Captions.
2. Click on a time-stamped section to start editing.
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you may prefer to edit the time-stamped text by clicking on More (3 dots icon)
and selecting the Edit option from the dropdown menu.
You may then use the Edit Caption dialog to adjust the text and/or the time-
stamp as needed. Click Save when finished.
3. If you need to undo and/or redo an action while editing, use the Undo (backwards
arrow icon) and Redo (forwards arrow icon) tools in the top toolbar.
Note: At any time while making these edits, you can press Shift + Space to
play/pause the session playback.
4. When you’re ready to apply the changes to your captions, click the Apply
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menu (gear icon) option at the bottom of the screen. This allows you to adjust the
captions visually and/or the speed.
6. Adjust the Position, Color, and/or Size.
7. Now, when you go back to your video, you will be able to view the scrolling transcript
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Note: Embedded videos will have the option to display closed captions by clicking on
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Panopto allows you to add a PDF file, such as a basic text transcript or other document,
to the video. This is only accessible to viewers when they access the video in Panopto
(instead of embedded viewing). Unfortunately, if you add a PDF file, it “takes over” the
main video real estate (refer to the image in step 6 for an example). Therefore,
depending on your video, this may not be the ideal placement of the file. If you want to
add a transcript or other associated PDF file, you may prefer to upload it in D2L with
your video.
To add a PDF file to your video in Panopto:
1. Go to Settings (gear icon).
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3. Navigate to your PDF transcript, select the file, and click Open.
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closed captions, and PDF transcript file.
Notes:
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version of the video. They may access the scrolling transcript and PDF file if
they open the video in Panopto.
• Viewers accessing the transcript of your video in Panopto have several options,
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