by Lori Smith 
I received an email from a Captivate developer who was lamenting the fact that her Captivate videos didn't have closed captions. "Sure it's easy to add closed captions to a Captivate slide," she said, "but you cannot add them to a video." This was a real problem since she was required to create accessible eLearning.
Believe it or not, it's just about as easy to add closed captions to a video as it is a slide. (Easy, but not obvious.) Here's how:
Insert a video onto a slide via the Media menu. (When inserting the video, insert it as Multi-Slide Synchronized Video. Also, select Modify slide duration to accommodate video.)
On the Properties inspector, select Edit Video Timing.
On the Closed Captioning tab and click on a Timeline location to mark where you want to insert closed captioning text.
Click the + sign to add a closed caption and then type the closed caption text.
Lather, rinse, repeat! Once you have finished adding all of the closed captioning text, click the OK button to exit the editor. And that's it! One note: don't forget to enable the display of closed captioning via your skin editor.
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I am trying to import a video and include CC, but am not 100% satisfied with the result (and I haven’t even gotten to the CC part!). My video was created with GoAnimate, which does not allow users to adjust the video dimensions. Resizing the video in Captivate resulted in a grainy video, which I knew I could fix. I can open the MP4 in Adobe Premier Pro and adjust the size of the canvas. My “LMS” (in quotes because it’s not a true LMS) doesn’t read MP4s in Captivate, so we then have to convert the MP4 to FLV. Everything seems to work fine with this process; however, I can’t add CC to the video the way I have been importing it (using the Media > Video menu on the CP 9 ribbon). I found your article about using the Import Video and Multi-Slide Synchronized Video which looked promising. Unfortunately when the video is imported using this method, it appears on the slide larger than the slide, so I have to resize it, which as I already learned makes my video grainy. Do you know if there’s a way to import the video in a set size?
I am trying to import a video and include CC, but am not 100% satisfied with the result (and I haven’t even gotten to the CC part!). My video was created with GoAnimate, which does not allow users to adjust the video dimensions. Resizing the video in Captivate resulted in a grainy video, which I knew I could fix. I can open the MP4 in Adobe Premier Pro and adjust the size of the canvas. My “LMS” (in quotes because it’s not a true LMS) doesn’t read MP4s in Captivate, so we then have to convert the MP4 to FLV. Everything seems to work fine with this process; however, I can’t add CC to the video the way I have been importing it (using the Media > Video menu on the CP 9 ribbon). I found your article about using the Import Video and Multi-Slide Synchronized Video which looked promising. Unfortunately when the video is imported using this method, it appears on the slide larger than the slide, so I have to resize it, which as I already learned makes my video grainy. Do you know if there’s a way to import the video in a set size?
I am trying to import a video and include CC, but am not 100% satisfied with the result (and I haven’t even gotten to the CC part!). My video was created with GoAnimate, which does not allow users to adjust the video dimensions. Resizing the video in Captivate resulted in a grainy video, which I knew I could fix. I can open the MP4 in Adobe Premier Pro and adjust the size of the canvas. My “LMS” (in quotes because it’s not a true LMS) doesn’t read MP4s in Captivate, so we then have to convert the MP4 to FLV. Everything seems to work fine with this process; however, I can’t add CC to the video the way I have been importing it (using the Media > Video menu on the CP 9 ribbon). I found your article about using the Import Video and Multi-Slide Synchronized Video which looked promising. Unfortunately when the video is imported using this method, it appears on the slide larger than the slide, so I have to resize it, which as I already learned makes my video grainy. Do you know if there’s a way to import the video in a set size?