Closed Captions and subtitles can be very helpful to customers who are hearing impaired or simply prefer to read along with the video. They can be added to videos you upload to Kajabi using an SRT file.
In this article:
- How to add closed captions to a video in a Course Lesson
- How to add closed captions to a video on a Page
- How to create an SRT file
How to add closed captions to a video in a Course Lesson
- From the Dashboard, select the Products tab.
- Then, select the Courses tab.
- Edit an existing Course and click into a Lesson with a video uploaded.
- Open the Video Actions dropdown.
- Select Closed Captions.
- Upload your SRT file:
How to add closed captions to a video on a Page
- Open the Website tab from the Dashboard.
- Click Pages.
- Select the page you wish to customize or create a new page.
- Click Customize to open the theme editor.
- Click the Video you wish to edit.
- Open the Video Actions dropdown.
- Select Closed Captions.
- Upload your SRT file:
How to create an SRT file
In captioning, a text file format is used, which you can easily create using TextEdit (on a Mac) or Notepad (on a Windows PC).
An SRT file consists of four parts:
- The number of the caption frame in a sequence
- Beginning and end timecodes for when the caption frame should appear
- The caption itself
- A blank line to indicate the start of a new caption sequence
The time format used is hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds with the milliseconds rounded to 3 decimal places. Each timestamp is separated by a two-hash arrow (“– –>”) and a blank line before the next caption sequence.
And that’s how you can add closed captions to a video! Please vote below and let us know if you found this article helpful. We value your feedback. Thanks for being the best part of Kajabi!
