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Edit Video Captions in My Media
When you upload a video to My Media, machine-generated captions are automatically created and added to your video. This process may take a couple of hours.
Videos uploaded to My Media before December 1, 2021 do not include automatically-generated captions; however, you can still order machine-generated captions for My Media videos that don't have captions. See Manually Ordering Machine Captions for Older My Media Videos
Important: Machine-generated captions are not 100% accurate. To meet accessibility standards, you are responsible for reviewing and editing your video's captions for accuracy.
Tip: When you edit a My Media video's captions, the captions update wherever the video is embedded or linked.
Characteristics of Accessible Captions
For auto-captions to be considered accessible, you must review and edit them to ensure:
- Spelling, capitalization, and punctuation errors are corrected.
- Text matches spoken words.
- Text is correctly synchronized with the audio and video.
- Relevant/meaningful sounds are added to captions.
- If the video has multiple speakers, captions indicate which speaker is speaking.
Captioning Tips
- Sounds – If a sound adds meaning to the video, add it to the captions. For example:
[door opens]
Carlos: Hello! I'm so glad you could make it.
Julia: We're so excited to be here.
- Pause, hesitation, or trailing off – Use an ellipsis to indicate a pause, hesitation, or trailing off. For example:
I thought it would work, but…I guess not.
I...I'm not sure what to do.
- Identify multiple speakers – If the video has multiple speakers, captions should indicate which speaker is speaking. You don't have to label the speaker in each line. Just label the speaker initially and when the speaker changes. For example:
Ed: Welcome to our presentation.
We're happy you're here.
Kathy: We'll be recording the presentation and will send you a link.
- Interruption or overlap – Use an em dash ( – ) to show a speaker is cut off or if two people speak at once.
- Interruption – If the current speaker is interrupted but speech doesn't overlap, place an em dash at the end of the caption. For example:
Ed: We should probably start –
Kathy: The Zoom recording?
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- Overlapping words – If the current speaker is interrupted and the words overlap with the next speaker, place an em dash at the end of the first caption and at the beginning of the next line. For example:
Ed: We should probably start –
Kathy: – The Zoom recording?
Video Procedure – Review and Edit Captions in My Media
Written Procedure – Review and Edit Captions in My Media
1. In Canvas, click Account in the left-hand navigation column, and then select My Media.
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Click the title of the video whose captions you want to edit.
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Click Actions . Then click Caption & Enrich.
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Click the pencil to the right of the captions.
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In the left-hand panel, click the text you want to edit, change the text, and click Save when done.
Refer to captioning best practices for more information on captioning.
After you click Save, the captions will be updated in your video and will display correctly wherever the video is embedded or linked.