Creating Video with Captions
The first step is to choose a tool for creating a video. We recommend the following options:
- Panopto - works best if you don't need to edit the videos or are recording whole lectures.
- Camtasia - has a great editing tool, and the ability to add highlights, obscure parts of the screen, and more.
- Canvas media tool - Useful for one-off videos and video feedback to specific students. Captioning is difficult.
If you've already created the videos, see the instructions for captioning existing videos.
Panopto
Panopto has a very good automated caption system, and fixing errors in those captions is straightforward. The captions will display inside the Panopto video player when they are completed. Learn more about captioning videos in Panopto
Camtasia
Camtasia allows more flexibility to edit videos and add special features. In addition, you can upload/play them from your Canvas course, Panopto, YouTube, etc. Camtasia videos can be captioned in the Camtasia editing tool, or after they are created.
- Uploading Camtasia videos to Panopto and use Panopto's auto captioning.
- Captioning Camtasia videos
- Contact the Help Desk to get Camtasia
Canvas Media Tool
The video recording tool in the Canvas Rich Content Editor works best for short videos that are used to give feedback to students. Videos created in this tool are difficult to caption. We recommend using one of the tools above, then upload the video and captions into Canvas.
Other video tools
There are a number of other video tools available, for instance iMovie, Screencast-o-matic, etc.. Check the support information for that tool to see how captioning is supported. If you aren't able to add captions there, Upload the video to Panopto and use Panopto's auto captioning.