In Canvas Studio, you can upload caption files for your uploaded media and for media linked from YouTube and Vimeo. Studio supports SRT file types, the most common transcript file type, and VTT file types, a more mobile-device-friendly transcript file type.
For help creating a media caption file, you can use a captioning site such as Amara.
Note: Canvas Studio allows you to generate a caption file for your uploaded media. For media files that do not already have captions, learn about generating captions using the Caption Request tool.
In your Studio account, locate the media you want to view on the My Library page [1], or using the search field [2].
To open the media file, click the View link [3].
Click the Captions tab.
In the Upload section, select the language used in your caption file [1]. To view additional language options, click the Show More link [2].
If Studio does not display the caption language in the list, click the Custom button [3].
Enter the language name in the Caption Language field [1], then click the Submit button [2].
Locate and select the file on your computer [1]. Click the Choose or Open button [2].
Once uploaded, the caption file displays in the Manage Captions section.
You can add multiple caption files for one media file.
To view options for a caption file, click the Options icon [1]. You can download [2], replace [3], or delete [4] any caption file.
Note: Caption files download in the same file format that they were uploaded in (SRT or VTT). After downloading, you can convert caption files into word processing files on most computers.
By default, captions are turned off. To turn on captions in the media, click the Toggle Captions On icon [1].
Note: The Toggle Captions On icon only displays if the media has captions.
To turn off captions in the media, click the Toggle Captions Off icon.