Adding automatic closed captions to Panopto videos

Adding automatic closed captions to Panopto videos

Panopto provides the ability to add machine-generated captions to your videos. Machine-generated captions are not the same as human transcription, so we recommend that they be reviewed and edited to ensure they are 100% accurate. Detailed instructions can be found at Correcting and editing captions in Panopto videos.

Open the video in the Panopto Editor

Sign in to Panopto and locate the video you would like to add automatic captions to.




Click the editor icon on the video to go to the Panopto Editor.

Import the automatically generated captions


Click Captions [1] on the left-hand side of the video.
Click Import captions [2] > Import automatic captions [3].

Publish the video to save the captions to the video


Go to the upper right-hand corner and click Publish to save the updates to the captions.

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