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Editing Captions in the Video Editor

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The Video Editor provides caption editing tools that can be used to increase the accuracy of the Video Platform's Auto-captioning, or correct captioning when media content is trimmed or altered.

Editing Captions in the Video Editor

The Video Editor offers a full-featured caption editor that includes the ability to add, change, delete captions, or alter the timestamp associated with a caption.

  1. Hover over the video you want to edit and select Edit to open the Video Editor.
    The location of the Edit button when you hover over a video.
  2. In the side panel, click Caption to pull up all the closed captions.
  3. Edit the caption based on your needs. The available actions include:
    • Update the closed-captions timestamps: Enter the new start and end times for each caption.
    • Edit the closed-caption texts: Change the caption text in the caption text box.
    • Delete a closed-caption line: Click the Trash icon next to the designated caption.
    • Add a new closed-caption line: Click Add Caption at mm:ss (i.e. 00:01) and add a new caption.
      The video editor with the Caption button, Caption panel, and Add Caption button highlighted.

Editing Captions During Video Editing

While editing a media file, especially trimming, it can cause the closed-caption timestamps to become invalid. In these cases, the Video Editor will notify you which part of the closed captions would be affected so you can act accordingly.

  1. Hover over an video and select Edit to open the Video Editor.
    The location of the Edit button when you hover over a video.
  2. Cut or split a part of the media file.
  3. In the side panel, click Caption to pull up all the closed captions.
  4. The Video Editor will show three different statuses to let users know which closed-caption lines are affected. Adjust the caption based on the caption status, including:
    • Blue - Valid: These closed-caption lines are not affected by the trim.
    • Red - Pending Removal: These closed-caption lines will be removed by the trim.
    • Yellow - Invalid Timestamp: These closed-caption lines are out-of-sync because of the trim.
      The video editor with the caption track and three statuses of caption highlighted.

Find and Replace Captions

The Find and Replace feature allow you to search for words within the caption transcript and replace them with another word.

  1. Hover over an video and select Edit to open the Video Editor.
    The location of the Edit button when you hover over a video.
  2. In the side panel, click Caption to pull up all the closed captions.
  3. Click the Find and Replace search bar in the upper-right corner.
    The caption panel with Caption button and Find and Replace search bar highlighted.
  4. Enter the word or phrase you want to find in the caption transcript in the Find search box.
    Note: Click the Aa icon if you want to find matches in both uppercase and lowercase letters, regardless of how you typed them.
    The caption panel with the Aa icon, Replace, and Replace All button highlighted.
  5. Enter the word or phrase you want to replace in the caption transcript in the Replace search box.
  6. Click the Replace icon if you want to replace a single word or phrase, or click the Replace All icon if you want to replace all instances of the searched word or phrase with the new phrase.

Editing Captions in Multiple Languages

You can edit captions for multiple languages associated with each video.

Caption edit panel.

  1. Hover over an video and select Edit to open the Video Editor.
    The location of the Edit button when you hover over a video.
  2. In the side panel, click Caption to pull up all the closed captions.
  3. Select your desired language in the drop-down menu.
    The video editor with the Caption button highlighted and Caption panel opened.

Setting Captioning Confidence Score

The Caption Confidence Score indicates how easy it is to understand your captions. A word or phrase will be highlighted if the AI caption engine detects that its quality falls below the caption quality score that you set.

  1. Hover over an video and select Edit to open the Video Editor.
    The location of the Edit button when you hover over a video.
  2. Click the Setting icon > Caption Quality.
    The video editor with Setting icon and Caption Quality option highlighted.
  3. Select a required percentage for the Caption Quality. Any words below that preferred score will be highlighted in light blue.
  4. Hover over any word of the closed caption to display its Confidence Score.
    The video caption with the wordings below the preset confidence quality highlighted, with the confidence score displayed on hover.

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