YuJa automatically generates English-language captions and an accompanying transcript for newly uploaded videos. Captions can also be generated for existing YuJa videos, including those transferred from Echo360.
Generated content is not always accurate or clear and both captions and transcripts can be edited through the YuJa Media Library (i.e. not from within Brightspace). Advanced options (e.g. to change language) are also available through the Media Library settings and at certain steps in the upload and embed process.
Employing captions and informing students of their existence can support a higher degree of video content accessibility. Learn more about how Video Captions Benefit Everyone.
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What are captions and transcripts?
Captions appear on screen, are synchronized to audio, and exist only within the video player. YuJa’s captions are “closed” and labeled “CC”, which means their visibility can be toggled on or off.
A transcript is the same word-for-word content but is available separately as text. In YuJa, the automatically generated captions will be identical to the transcript. An SRT file, a plain text file, and a PDF will be available once a video is fully processed.
Automatic caption and transcript generation
Captions and a transcript are automatically generated after recording or uploading a video with YuJa, but the result will not appear immediately (potentially beyond the upload’s an uploaded video’s normal processing period).
When a recently uploaded video plays, YuJa A message will indicate that the captions are still being processed when a recently uploaded video first plays.
The video can be embedded and viewed during this time.
An instructor preparing course material can move on with confidence that it will finish on its own.
The warning will disappear once processing is complete and the CC button will become clickable the next time the video loads and is played.
Toggle captions on or off
If captions Editing captions, changing their language, and making other adjustments cannot be done through the embedded video player and must be accomplished while editing the video through the Media Library.
Enable captions and access a transcript while viewing
Toggle captions
Captions that have been added to a YuJa video , the do not require any further action, although their visibility can be toggled on or off. A CC button will appear when hovering over the bottom-right corner of the a video player while it is playing. Anyone watching the video can click that to show or hide captions.
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The CC button will not be present if the video does not have captions.
Find a transcript
At Click the Show Sidebar button(in the bottom-right of the video-player, next to the caption icon, there is an icon called “Show Sidebar”. It looks like a rectangle, with one half black and the other half white. Selecting this icon will open a sub-, beside the CC button) to open a menu on the right-hand side of the video player. A navigation bar in the sub-menu shows a Resources icon Find the Resources button (the ribbon icon) on the far right , it looks like a ribbon. Selecting this will reveal the option to download the auto-generated Transcript.
and click to display the downloadable transcript in PDF format.
An SRT file, a plain text file, and a PDF will be available for fully processed in the Media Library.
Gernsbacher M. A. (2015). Video Captions Benefit Everyone. Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences, 2(1), 195–202. https://doi.org/10.1177/2372732215602130