Add Dynamic Captions
Learn how to automatically transcribe audio into customizable, onscreen caption text.
Learn how to automatically transcribe audio into customizable, onscreen caption text.
Camtasia allows you to create and publish two common video caption types:
Closed Captions
Dynamic Captions
Note: This tutorial covers how to add dynamic captions to your video. To learn how to add closed captions, see Add Closed Captions to a Video.
To generate dynamic captions based on the audio on the timeline:
To review and edit individual words in the auto-generated dynamic captions:
Note: If you delete the Dynamic Caption Style on the timeline, Camtasia saves the edits to the caption transcription with the audio media on the timeline. If you drag another Dynamic Caption Style onto the timeline, Camtasia retains your previous caption transcription edits.
Complete the following to adjust when a word appears on the screen in Camtasia version 2024.1.0 or later:
Note: If you do not see words in the purple transcript bar, in the Timeline Tray dropdown, select Transcript or press Ctrl+T.
Note: If you see a transcript gap indicator , you cannot drag the previous word beyond this point. Camtasia automatically inserts these transcript gaps to separate the previous word from the next word in your captions.
To customize the look and style of the dynamic captions:
Tip: Save your custom style as a preset.
Click the + icon to save the custom properties as a new Dynamic Caption Style to reuse across your videos.
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