Add captions to a hosted Screencast-O-Matic video

Uploading captions

Captions

Screencast-O-Matic enables you to create and upload captions and add them to your video. These captions are displayed on the screen in real time as the video plays, enabling those who cannot hear or understand the audio to access the content within a video.

Looking for how to add captions using our Video Editor? Click here.

Adding captions to a hosted video

  1. Log into your Screencast-O-Matic account.
  2. Click My content at the top of the page.

  1. Click Videos.

  1. Click the title of the video that you want to edit.
          The video opens in the video preview area with the Video Details, Interaction Tools, and other tabs displayed on the right.
  1. Scroll to the bottom of the Video Details tab. 
  2. In the Captions area, click + Add Captions.

  1. Select your desired Caption File Language from the list.
  2. Click Upload File.
  3. Navigate to the applicable captions file, select it, and then click Open.
          The captions file is added to the video. 

Playback

To see what your captions will look like, play back your video in the video preview area. 
To display the captions, click in the bottom right of the video preview toolbar and select the language of the captions that you just uploaded.
If you need to fix an error, click to download the captions file, make your changes, and then re-upload it by following the steps above. To delete a captions file, click .

Supported files:

We currently support the upload of .srt, .sub, and .vtt files.

Supported languages for captions:

Abkhazian, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bihari, Bislama, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China), Chinese (Simplified Han), Chinese (Singapore), Chinese (Taiwan), Chinese (Traditional Han), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dinka, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), Dzongkha, English, English (Canada), English (Ireland), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Belgium), French (Canada), French (Switzerland), Galician, Georgian, German, German (Austria), German (Switzerland), Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Interlingue, Inupiaq, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kalaallisut, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Moldavian, Mongolian, Nauru, Nepali, Northern Sami (Lulesamisk), Norwegian, Occitan, Oriya, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Persian (Afghanistan), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Samoan, Sango, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tonga, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapük, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu

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