Closed Caption Box placement in 360

Hi Craig, 

It's not something on the roadmap, but I'd love to hear more about what you'd like to see as options for editing. 

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Hi there, Bob!  Are you referring to the hint caption boxes that are generated with the step-by-step slides of a screen recording?  If so, are you finding that the caption boxes are getting in the way of crucial screen content?

You can edit captions at slide level: move them around, resize them, etc.  There are also some universal formatting options available for you.  

Let me know what you're seeing!

Hey Mike,

You got it! Here's how it's done:

1. Go to the Home tab on the Storyline ribbon and click Player.
2. When the player properties window opens, click Colors & Effects on the ribbon.
3. Increase the Player font size percentage. It can be any percentage between 75% and 200%.
4. Click OK to save and close the player settings.

Will there be an update coming soon that will provide the ability to have greater control over the dimensions and placement of the Closed Caption box?

For instance, a box that goes to two lines of text takes up probably 20% of the video screen in my example. Additionally, there is a generous  "gutter" underneath the Closed Caption box that I'd prefer to not have. The ability to create a fixed position for the box would be a major "win."

Would be nice if the close captioning box could be set for various levels of transparency too.   That way it would not fully cover the image in that area....

Totally agree with the need to be able to position cc box and transparency. Would like to see it take up as little space as possible (while still retaining 14 point font size) and have as little gutter in relation to the player. As it is, I have to avoid putting content in roughly the bottom 1/7th of the screen because the cc box will cover it. that's a lot of screen real estate.

Just reading through all this as I've been trying to use SL360 for closed captioning and find it unusable.

Although I could think about the CC more during a video shoot, it seems absurd to allow for a hugely CC box that cannot be made transparent in anyway. I wont be using SL for CC anytime soon, unless some new feature makes it far more editable.

I love 360 and use it for virtually all my online learning creation. SO it's a bit frustrating that I will have to continue going outside SL/360 to creating video with CC and then import these..

Not ideal!!

Hi Bob, you can't control the placement of the closed captioning box - that is if you are talking about the cc box and not the caption hints that Crystal is referring too.

Hi Crystal, I was referring to "CLOSED CAPTIONING". Yes, Nancy... the CC box.

We sometimes do a 2-column layout where we put text on the left side of the screen and a small video window on the right side. I was trying to figure out if we had any control over the placement of the CC window. Not a big deal.... just need to keep it under consideration for all our interface layouts using video.

Thanks!

Hi Bob,

You can change the font and font size for captions, but not the placement of the caption box. It'll appear along the bottom of the slide as a standard location for closed captions.