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Moodle My Media - How to edit and enable Video Captions

Introduction

My Media offers automatic caption creation for your videos. This enables any video uploaded to My Media to have a text alternative to the video audio. Once complete the captions can be edited manually to fix any errors or add descriptions as needed.

Watch a video demo or continue below to follow the text instructions on ordering video captions.

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How to download Video Captions / Transcripts

If you are the creator of the video we recommend you write a script as this can be used as a transcript as well.

1. Select your Video in MyMedia

• From Moodle, in the navigation drawer on the left, select My Media.

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• Select one of your videos by clicking the thumbnail or video title

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2. Download Caption texts

• Select Actions then Edit

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• Select the attachments tab and select the far right download button for the transcript_en.txt file. This is the best format to download, but will require some editing.

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• Alternatively you can download the SRT file under the Captions Tab wit the far right download button. This format is a little messier, but an extra option if needed. 

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