Kaltura - Editing Closed Captions

Video owners and co-editors can edit the closed captions on a Kaltura My Media video to improve their accuracy.

Video Guide

Step-By-Step Instructions

Here is how a video owner or co-editor can edit Kaltura captions:

1. Log in to Canvas from https://www.uwgb.edu/canvas.
    
2. Select Account > My Media in the Canvas Global Navigation Menu to open your My Media library.
    
3. In your My Media library, select the title of the video with the captions you'd like to edit.
    
4. On the Media page for that video, look for the the Actions drop-down menu on the right side of the page beneath the video. Select Actions, then select Edit.
   
   
    
5. Underneath the media player, select the Captions tab and then select the Edit Captions button.
   
   
    
6. On the Closed Captions Editor screen, you can make changes and correct errors in the captions. Common errors include garbled words, typos, and incorrect proper names. 
   Key features of the Closed Captions Editor include:
   
   
    
   1. Search and Replace: Search for specific text strings within the caption file. Use Replace to swap out one text string for another throughout the captions file.
   2. Add Speaker: Lets you designate who is speaking during a particular section of the captions. To add a speaker, check the box next to one (or several) caption sections in the Content Editor (below), then type a name in the Add speaker to selected items field and click Add.
   3. Timestamp and Content Editor: This is the heart of the Closed Captions Editor. Use this to edit each chunk of text in the captions and determine when that chunk of captions will be displayed. If you create timestamps which overlap, the editor will highlight the overlapping timestamps.
   4. Video Preview: Lets you play and pause the video as you're editing captions. Checking Autoscroll will cause the captions sections in the Content Editor (above) to scroll as the video plays.
       
7. After you've made all the edits you want, select the Save button.
   Please note: captions changes may take up to 24 hours to show up in Canvas or Mediaspace.
    
8. A "Confirm caption accuracy" pop-up window will appear. Use the slider to select a new Accuracy % level for the edited captions.
   Note: The UDOIT Course Accessibility Checker will flag a potential accessibility issue for any captions with an accuracy level of 98% or lower.
   
   
    
9. Select the Save button.
    
10. After editing captions, you may want to change the captions label (the title which will appear for these captions in the captions menu of the video player). For example, if the original captions label is "English (autocaption)," you may want to change it to "English (corrected)" or simply "English."

Attribution

The original guide from which this article was derived can be found on the Universities of Wisconsin DLE KnowledgeBase.