Operation Manual

Camtasia Studio Version 8 Help
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Captions (Closed and Open)
Captions display onscreen text within a video to provide additional or interpretive information to viewers.
Captions are used to create videos accessible to a larger audience, such as:
Viewers with hearing impairments
Viewers that cannot listen to audio with their current settings
International audiences with subtitles and onscreen translations for non-native speakers
Camtasia Studio has two options for how captions appear in the final video: closed and open.
Closed Captions
Can be turned on and off by the viewer via a CC button on the controller.
Can be ADA compliant or customized by changing the font attributes including size, color, and
alignment.
Can be made searchable in the video when producing as an MP4 video file.
Can be hidden to produce a video without captions in it. (Does not delete captions on timeline.)
Open Captions
Can be customized by changing the font attributes including size, color, and alignment.
Can be made searchable in the video when producing as an MP4 video file.
Are burned into the video and cannot be turned off.
For Closed or Open captions to display in the final video, certain settings must be applied in
both the Captions task page and Production Wizard. See Caption Settings.
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