Hello,
How Can I move Captions in Camtasia Studio 9?
I want to put the caption in that red rectangle please
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How Can I move Captions in Camtasia Studio 9?
I want to put the caption in that red rectangle please
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Posted 3 years ago
Fred Grover, Champion
You are not able to just place the Captions in any location you want in Camtasia. The Captions are either burned into the video(s) which is automatically placed and gives you the option for the viewers to turn them off and on if the video(s) are hosted on your own website or screencast.com. YouTube will not recognize these Captions created in Camtasia.
The other option is to have the Captions below the video(s) but you have to then keep the aspect ratio(s) of your video(s) in mind as it will put a small box below the video(s). Not sure what the size of that is as I have never produced a video using that option.
However if you wanted to do a long work around I guess you could try to use Text Callouts and put them in that and try to line/synch everything up but that would be more work and time than I would personally put in to get that result.
I am not a video expert so I cannot say if they can just be placed or implemented to be placed anywhere in the video but I know they are ADA Compliant.
When you think about watching a Television Show or a Movie with Closed Captions you notice that for the most part they are all on the bottom of the location as to not interfere with the video. So I am just curious as to know why you would want them in a different location and what purpose it would serve.
Thanks for posting and if you have any input to share on why you would want that option let us know. Have a great day/night.
The other option is to have the Captions below the video(s) but you have to then keep the aspect ratio(s) of your video(s) in mind as it will put a small box below the video(s). Not sure what the size of that is as I have never produced a video using that option.
However if you wanted to do a long work around I guess you could try to use Text Callouts and put them in that and try to line/synch everything up but that would be more work and time than I would personally put in to get that result.
I am not a video expert so I cannot say if they can just be placed or implemented to be placed anywhere in the video but I know they are ADA Compliant.
When you think about watching a Television Show or a Movie with Closed Captions you notice that for the most part they are all on the bottom of the location as to not interfere with the video. So I am just curious as to know why you would want them in a different location and what purpose it would serve.
Thanks for posting and if you have any input to share on why you would want that option let us know. Have a great day/night.
Hi Fred,
Thanks for sharing that information. The answer to your question regarding the requested feature (ability to move caption positioning) is in your post.
Another instance when this is beneficial to place the captions near the person in the shot who is speaking. This can be helpful for things like interviews or when there is a back and forth dialogue.
While SRT files do have some options as to individual caption placement, not all media players (including YouTube) recognize them. WebVTT caption format is able to handle/render position with great specificity and is now the web standard for captions. It looks like Camtastia currently only exports SRT and SMI/SAMI files.
https://w3c.github.io/webvtt/#example-b30cb609
It would be really helpful if Camtasia could add this functionality.
Kind regards,
Dan Sommer
Thanks for sharing that information. The answer to your question regarding the requested feature (ability to move caption positioning) is in your post.
you notice that for the most part they are all on the bottom of the location as to not interfere with the video.The caption content (text) should not interfere with the visual content in the video. If there is important information on the screen that is essential to the viewer's experience it would do a disservice to cover it up with the captions. This could be an action that is taking place in the shot, text or images displayed from a slide/presentation, or translated text of a foreign language being spoken that is also burned into the video in the same location.
Another instance when this is beneficial to place the captions near the person in the shot who is speaking. This can be helpful for things like interviews or when there is a back and forth dialogue.
While SRT files do have some options as to individual caption placement, not all media players (including YouTube) recognize them. WebVTT caption format is able to handle/render position with great specificity and is now the web standard for captions. It looks like Camtastia currently only exports SRT and SMI/SAMI files.
https://w3c.github.io/webvtt/#example-b30cb609
It would be really helpful if Camtasia could add this functionality.
Kind regards,
Dan Sommer
Fred Grover, Champion
I agree with you Dan Sommer. It would be nice if Camtasia could add this functionality. I have a friend who does Professional Captioning for a TV Network and there are a lot of differences in the way things are displayed and how the different file formats work. At least Camtasia is ADA Compliant but could still maybe integrate the WebVTT option someday. Have a great day/night.
Kind regards back at you,
Fred Grover
Kind regards back at you,
Fred Grover
Ali A. Wahab
I hope add this option as soon as. :(
ExpertNovice
Captions are not manually moveable in CS8 either. However, in the formatting section (font type, size, color, etc.) there is a dropdown box that allows positioning all captions to the left, center, or right.
Dubie suggested using a callout. I didn't want to spend much time on this but here are two images that show the difference between a callout (top) and a caption (bottom). the background was changed to show that they look remarkably alike. The major differences SEEM to be that a callout has square corners instead of rounded, can be moved to any position, much more control over formatting. Captions have an index, of sorts and can be moved to three positions.