Panopto Tutorials:

How To Use the Captions Service

Tutorial on how to use the Captions service in Panopto.

Importing Automatic Captions

Panopto offers English captions by default. To add them to a video:

  1. Locate the video you would like to add captions to and click on the “Edit” icon:
  2.  Select the “Captions” menu item.
  3. Select the “Import Captions” dropdown.
  4. Select “Import automatic captions”:

    ↳ If the video already contains captions, you will see “Replace with automatic captions” instead.
    ↳ If the video does not contain audio, automatic captioning options will not be available.

     

  5. Once you are done, click “Apply” at the top of the page:

Uploading Captions

If you have pre-made captions, you can upload them. You are not limited to just one file. You can upload as many captions files as you would like:

  1. Locate the video you would like to add captions to and click on the “Edit” icon:
  2. Select the “Captions” menu item.
  3. Select the “Import Captions” dropdown.
  4. Select “Upload or request captions”:
  5. Select the language, choose the file and then click “Upload Captions”:
  6. Once you are done, click “Apply” at the top of the page:

Editing Captions

Editing the Text

  1. Select the “Captions” menu item.
  2. Click to select the caption you want to modify, make your changes in the text box, and click enter: 

  3. Once you are finished editing all captions, click “Apply” at the top of the page:

Replacing Incorrect Text

  1. Click on the “Find & Replace” icon at the top, to the right of Language:
  2. Fill out the Find and Replace text boxes and click “Replace” to change the current caption or “Replace All” to change all captions that contain that word: 

    ↳ You can flip through the captions by using the arrows next to the found word:

  3. Once you are finished editing, click “Apply” at the top of the page:

Changing the Timestamp

  1. Click on the “More Actions” icon (three vertical dots) on the desired text box and select “Edit”: 

  2. Make your changes to Start and End times and then click “Save”: 

  3. Once you are finished editing, click “Apply” at the top of the page:

Deleting Captions

  1. Click on the “More Actions”  icon on the desired text box and select “Delete”: 

  2. Once you are done, click “Apply” at the top of the page: