Adding captions to your QMplus Media videos
Completion requirements
You can request automatic captions for any video that you upload to QMplus Media.
It’s straightforward to do and is one way that you can improve the
accessibility of your teaching materials. Once captions are available,
viewers can turn them on and off in the QMplus Media video player and an
interactive transcript of the video will
appear below it allowing viewers to search for specific parts of the
video and jump to them. The transcript can also be downloaded as a text
file.
Accuracy and editing
Machine generated captions are never 100% accurate. Accuracy depends on a variety of factors:
- The quality of the audio on the recording
- The amount of "jargon " used
- How many speakers there are
- The clarity of the speaker
This means you are almost always likely to have to do some editing of your captions. QMplus Media provides an online caption editor. This works in a very similar way to the caption editor available on YouTube. You can also download the caption file and edit it in another program should you wish to.
Captions must be requested
As captions are not 100% accurate, you are likely to have to clean them up. For this reason, we currently do not automatically create captions for all videos uploaded to QMplus Media. This could cause confusion if captions appeared without
having been checked.
Anyone who owns or has editing rights on a video can request and edit captions
Transcripts are searchable
- Once captions and a transcript have been created for your video, they are searchable. This makes it easier for you and anyone with the ability to see your video to find what they are looking for
Transcripts are downloadable
- The full transcript for your video can be downloaded.