Working with Captions

Creating captions

You can create captions in CaseGuard Studio a few ways.

Creating manual captions

Method 1: manual typing

• Click transcribe

Manually type  start and end times into the Start and End box.

• Click on the Start box.
• Type start time into box.
• Click on the End box.
• Type end time into box.
• Enter your transcription.

• Click Save.
  
• Repeat this process until you add all of your transcriptions.
• Click  to add closed captions. The Closed Captioning Options popup will appear.

• Select the captioning settings you want to add to your file.
  • Capitalization allows you to set the case of the captions to normal, lowercase, or uppercase.
  • Caption Position moves your captions to your desired position.
  • Font lets you select the font color of the captions.
  • Background lets you set a background color for your captions.
  • Size lets you adjust the size of your caption text.
  • Opacity alters the background color and text.

• Click Process from the Shortcuts Bar or from the Task List Panel to process the file.

Method 2: drag the Player Timeline

• Click Transcribe.
• Drag the indicator on the player timeline to where you want to start transcribing.
• Click Capture Start Time to log the time. Confirm that the Start box has updated to reflect the start time.
• Drag the indicator on the player timeline to where you want to stop cutting.
• Click Capture End Time to log the time. Confirm that the Start box has updated to reflect the end time.

• Click Save to log the transcription.
• Repeat this process until you add all of your transcriptions.
• Click  to add closed captions. The Closed Captioning Options popup will appear.

• Select the captioning settings you want to add to your file.
  • Capitalization allows you to set the case of the captions to normal, lowercase, or uppercase.
  • Caption Position moves your captions to your desired position.
  • Font lets you select the font color of the captions.
  • Background lets you set a background color for your captions.
  • Size lets you adjust the size of your caption text.
  • Opacity alters the background color and text.

• Click Process from the Shortcuts Bar or from the Task List Panel to process the file.

Creating captions after automatically transcribing

After transcribing your audio, CaseGuard can automatically burn captions to your file.  To get started:

• Navigate to the Transcription Panel.
• Click  to add closed captions. The Closed Captioning Options popup will appear.

• Select the captioning settings you want to add to your file.
  • Capitalization allows you to set the case of the captions to normal, lowercase, or uppercase.
  • Caption Position moves your captions to your desired position.
  • Font lets you select the font color of the captions.
  • Background lets you set a background color for your captions.
  • Size lets you adjust the size of your caption text.
  • Opacity alters the background color and text.
• Click OK.
• Click Process from the Shortcuts Bar or from the Task List Panel to process the file.