Video Captions & Audio Transcripts
Captions
Accommodations for videos and audio make lectures and course content accessible to all students. The most accessible videos typically feature captions, audio descriptions, and keyboard navigation capabilities. Those videos may vary in appearance based on the students’ specific needs. The following resources provide information on using campus-approved software to record video lectures.
Captioning YuJa videos
If the videos are in YuJa and you own or can edit them, YuJa automatically machine-generates captions. These captions do need to be reviewed and correct where needed. To apply captions to YuJa videos:
- Upload your video to YuJa.
- Wait a for YuJa to apply auto-captions.
- Review and correct the captions. Apply capitalization and punctuation where needed.
Detailed instructions for using your Georgia Southern YuJa account can be found at YuJa Resources for Instructors.
Detailed instructions for editing captions in YuJa can be found at Editing Captions in the Video Editor.
Captioning YouTube videos
Captions on your videos in your Georgia Southern YouTube account can be edited.
- Upload your video to Your Georgia Southern YouTube account.
- Wait for YouTube to apply auto-captions
- Review and correct the captions. Apply capitalization and punctuation where needed.
Detailed information can be found at Editing or removing captions—YouTube Help.
Captions on YouTube or Vimeo videos that you do not own cannot be directly edited. However, you can add captions to those videos using Amara.org. The free subscription should suit your needs.
Captioning Google Drive videos
If your videos are stored in your Google Drive, and you want to keep using the videos located in Google Drive, rather than using the links to videos in your YuJa or to your Georgia Southern YouTube account, then the following steps outline how to add captions to videos in your Google Drive.
- Upload the videos to YuJa or YouTube (can be set to private).
- Apply and edit the captions.
- Download the captions file from YuJa or YouTube.
- Upload caption file to Google Drive video. Detailed information can be found in the Google Drive Help Document: Add caption tracks to your video files.
Captioning Folio videos
We recommend uploading your videos to YuJa or YouTube and then add YuJa or YouTube videos to Folio, rather than uploading videos directly to Folio. However, you can still add captions to videos in Folio that have been added directly in Folio.
- Upload your video to YuJa or YouTube to generate captions.
- Edit and correct the captions where needed. Make sure to correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
- Download the captions as a file in either the .SRT or the .VTT file format.
- Add the caption file to your Folio video using the instructions at Add subtitles to videos – Brightspace.
Audio Transcripts
Accessible transcripts include punctuation and capitalization, which are normally not part of auto-generated transcripts. Without punctuation and capitalization, transcripts have no readability and context. “When creating transcripts for videos and audio-only and video-only content, follow these guidelines:
- Provide the transcript in an accessible format, like a Section 508-conformant web page, a plain text file, or a conformant Microsoft Word document.
- For audio-only content, use the same guidelines as captions for determining which sounds to transcribe and what audio information must be included.
- For video content, use the same guidelines as audio descriptions for determining which imagery to describe and what visual information must be included.
- Ensure that users can access the transcript in the same place as the original content.”
from Create Accessible Captions and Transcripts.
.
Last updated: 5/20/2025