If you've spent any time adding closed captions to your Captivate project, you have probably already noticed that the closed captions are hidden by default. Once the lesson appears on your customers screen, the CC button on the playbar has to be clicked by the customer before the closed captions will appear.
What if you want the closed captions panel to be open by default? That's an interesting problem because there is no option within Captivate (not the Preferences and not the properties of a skin) that you can select that will force the closed captions to appear automatically when the lesson first opens.
So what's a developer to do? Read on…
Create an Action
In Captivate, you can create an action that will force the closed captions to open automatically. While creating Actions might seem daunting if you aren't a programmer, this one is very simple.
- Choose Project > Actions to display the Actions Dialog.
- On the Advanced actions tab, select Create a new action from the Edit/Create action drop-down menu.
- Type the name of your new action (in the example below, the action was called CC) and click the Save button.
- Double-click Add Statement.
- Double-click Statement.
- Select Assignment.
- Select cpCmndCC from the list of actions.
- Select Value from the next list that appears.
- Type 1 into the value field (1 means "yes," or "true," and 0 means "no" or "false.")
- Click the Save button to save your new action.
- Click the Close button.
- Show the Properties of the first slide.
- On the Slide tab, select Execute advanced action from the On slide enter drop-down menu.
- Select CC from the Action drop-down menu.
- Click the OK button.
- Preview the project.
Assuming you are using a project that has a skin attached (Project > Skin Editor), the playbar has the closed captions option enabled, the CC panel will automatically open on your slide.
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Are you able to add a form that contains space for an email address on the first slide so that the viewer has to enter a valid email address before viewing the video?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Kind regards,
Nicola
Are you able to add a form that contains space for an email address on the first slide so that the viewer has to enter a valid email address before viewing the video?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Kind regards,
Nicola
Are you able to add a form that contains space for an email address on the first slide so that the viewer has to enter a valid email address before viewing the video?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Kind regards,
Nicola
Looks like this piece was missing in the CP4 version of the article.
Note: If you follow only the steps above, the CC field will be displayed, but it may not display correctly. Insert a blank slide before Slide 1. Set the timing of the new slide to 0.1 seconds. The learner will never notice the extra slide but the closed captions will be on automatically and should be displayed properly.
Looks like this piece was missing in the CP4 version of the article.
Note: If you follow only the steps above, the CC field will be displayed, but it may not display correctly. Insert a blank slide before Slide 1. Set the timing of the new slide to 0.1 seconds. The learner will never notice the extra slide but the closed captions will be on automatically and should be displayed properly.
Looks like this piece was missing in the CP4 version of the article.
Note: If you follow only the steps above, the CC field will be displayed, but it may not display correctly. Insert a blank slide before Slide 1. Set the timing of the new slide to 0.1 seconds. The learner will never notice the extra slide but the closed captions will be on automatically and should be displayed properly.
This works fine but clicking the CC button does not turn them off. Can it work this way? Appear by default but still give the user the option to turn them off?
This works fine but clicking the CC button does not turn them off. Can it work this way? Appear by default but still give the user the option to turn them off?
This works fine but clicking the CC button does not turn them off. Can it work this way? Appear by default but still give the user the option to turn them off?
Once I created this Advanced Action (Called it CCON), I assigned it to a button on my first slide instead of assigning it to the whole slide. I also created another Advanced Action with value “0” (meaning turn off, called it CCOFF ) which I assigned to another button on my first slide. This way the user has the ability to turn on and off the CCs. If you only want to get an off button, you can place just one button with the 2nd advanced action (CCOFF). I was using Captivate 5.0 which is slightly different from 4.
Once I created this Advanced Action (Called it CCON), I assigned it to a button on my first slide instead of assigning it to the whole slide. I also created another Advanced Action with value “0” (meaning turn off, called it CCOFF ) which I assigned to another button on my first slide. This way the user has the ability to turn on and off the CCs. If you only want to get an off button, you can place just one button with the 2nd advanced action (CCOFF). I was using Captivate 5.0 which is slightly different from 4.
Once I created this Advanced Action (Called it CCON), I assigned it to a button on my first slide instead of assigning it to the whole slide. I also created another Advanced Action with value “0” (meaning turn off, called it CCOFF ) which I assigned to another button on my first slide. This way the user has the ability to turn on and off the CCs. If you only want to get an off button, you can place just one button with the 2nd advanced action (CCOFF). I was using Captivate 5.0 which is slightly different from 4.
Adding to that, if a button is assigned the Actions, (ON and Off), then we can even turn off the CC option in the skin. I created small buttons to turn on and off the CCs using advanced actions. Make sure you de-select the “pause after so many seconds in the button property)”
Adding to that, if a button is assigned the Actions, (ON and Off), then we can even turn off the CC option in the skin. I created small buttons to turn on and off the CCs using advanced actions. Make sure you de-select the “pause after so many seconds in the button property)”
Adding to that, if a button is assigned the Actions, (ON and Off), then we can even turn off the CC option in the skin. I created small buttons to turn on and off the CCs using advanced actions. Make sure you de-select the “pause after so many seconds in the button property)”