Add Captions to Panopto Video

Overview

Videos added to Panopto after the course development phase can be captioned using Panopto's ASR (automatic speech recognition) captioning feature. 

• Please note:
  • ASR captions do not appear automatically after a video is added to Panopto. The following are estimates for how long it might take before the ASR captioning option is available:
    • Videos one hour or shorter: 8 hours

      Videos over an hour: One day

  • While typically accurate, Panopto’s auto-captioning feature can sometimes produce errors. Thus, it is recommended that you review the captions before applying them and that you make any necessary corrections through the caption-editing function. Step 6 in the instructions below explains how to do this.

  • The duration of the editing process depends on the video’s length and the number of errors you find. Fortunately, however, the actual auto-generation of captions typically only takes a few minutes, so once you edit the captions and apply them, it should not take too long for the captions to appear.

  • In general, the best practice for editing captions is to have the speaker in the video make these changes, as the speaker is best suited to make editorial decisions about corrections, particularly those pertaining to specialized terminology. Thus, the recommended approach for editing captions is to have the speaker follow the instructions below. If someone other than the speaker has been asked to apply captions to a video (e.g., a TA needs to apply captions to a faculty's video), please email online-learning-help@sas.upenn.edu for assistance.
    
    

Instructions

1. Log in to Panopto. You will be asked to provide your Pennkey and password to authenticate you as a user. If you are not prompted to log in with your Penn credentials, you may have already been authorized through previous authentication in Canvas. 

2. Click Edit for the video you want to caption.

3. Click Captions on the side-navigation menu for in the video's edit display. 

4. Click Import Captions > Import automatic captions. 

5. Captions will auto-generate and appear accompanied by their duration in the video (circled in red below). 

6. If you want to edit or delete a caption, hover over the appropriate caption and click the three dots where the Edit and Delete buttons will appear. 

IMPORTANT: You must edit or delete captions before clicking Apply (step 6 in these instructions). If you do not, and you accidentally add captions that should have been edited or deleted, you will need to click Revert, and then you will need to go back and edit the captions. 

6. Click Apply, which appears in the upper-right corner of the video's edit display.