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If you are someone who likes to write scripts for your videos, then the Sync Captions with Script option might be of interest.
Let me walk you through this process.
First, make sure you copy the script to your clipboard;
and then paste it into the text box in the captions tab.
If comparing to the Speech-to-text feature this option may save you some editing time
since it maintains all of the capitalization and punctuation.
A maximum of three lines of text can be visible in the video at a time, and this is illustrated with the black text in the text box.
The red text indicates text that is not yet captioned.
You'll also see a caption that was added to the caption track on the timeline.
You can adjust the position and duration of each caption by clicking and dragging it on the caption track.
But we'll look at this more a little later.
When you're ready, click the Sync captions button.
A dialog window appears with some helpful tips of how to complete this process.
Click continue, and the playback of the video begins immediately.
The Syncing captions controls appear in the bottom left, so you can pause or stop the captioning process at any time.
As the video plays back, listen to the audio while reading along with the text.
Click anywhere in the text before the first red word.
Try looking for logical breaks in the text, such as a sentence break if possible.
But sometimes the first red word is the best possible break, and that's OK, too.
I'm going to click the resume button and watch as I try to click and sync up the text with the audio.
We'll look at how to search for a place of interest,
zoom in for a bird's eye view,
and customize the view of the map.
The first task is to open up your favorite web browser...
Continue this basic process to sync the text with the audio to create captions.
When you're finished captioning your video here are a few tips that might help.
If any of the captions aren't synced with the audio on the timeline, drag to adjust the duration and position of the caption.
You can also use the audio wave form as a guide when aligning the start and end of the caption.
If you'd ever like to merge two separate captions into one,
right-click the time stamp of the caption and choose Merge text with previous caption.
Note that the duration of the caption does not change on the timeline, so you may need to extend the caption to sync it with the audio.
And finally, if you already have captions on the timeline and you click the sync captions button,
the sync captions with audio dialog appears.
Choose between starting at the position of the playhead on a timeline and replacing all captions that follow,
or start at the beginning of the timeline and replace all existing captions.
If you accidentally choose the wrong option, just use the undo button to return where you left off.
To learn more about captions, view the other video tutorials or visit the help file. Thanks.