Kaltura: Captioning a Video

You can order automatic machine captions for videos uploaded to Kaltura/My Media. Directions are provided below on how to order and edit captions. You will also find resources for best practices when creating captions.  

The automatic machine captions may take anywhere from a few minutes to 48 hours to complete depending on the lenghth of the video and have an accuracy rate of approximately 70% to 75%. Because of this, you will need to manually edit the automatic machine captions with Kaltura's built-in editor. 

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Order Captions

1. Access Kaltura My Media in Canvas.
    
2. Click on the name of the video that you want to caption.
   
   
    
3. Scroll down to the Actions option below the video. 
   
   
    
4. Select Caption & Enrich under the Actions drop-down menu. 
   
   
    
5. Select the Service, Source Media Language, and Feature you wish to be requested. 
   
   
    
6. Click the Submit icon. 
   
   
    
7. You should see a blue text box indicating that your captions request has been received. 
   
   
    
8. Scroll up to Captions Request in order to check the Status of your video captions. 
   
   
    
9. Once your captions have been successfully completed, the Status should show Completed.
   
   
    
10. You will now have the captions you requested. 
     

Edit Captions

1. Once your caption request has been completed, click the pencil icon to Edit captions. 
   
   
    
2. From there, you will be directed to the Closed Captions Editor.
    
3. Here is a Kaltura Guide for Editing Captions. 

Best Practices for Captioning

For best practices on how to caption videos, refer to the resources linked below.

• Captioning Key