Other Video Captions Tools

Learn more about Guidelines and Best Practices for Captioning Educational Video. 

On this page, you will find a summary of captioning features and instructions on how to set up on-screen captions.

Pre-Recorded Videos 


Camtasia is a powerful and easy to use screen recording and video editing tool that is available to CSUN faculty and staff. Visit CSUN Camtasia page. 

Record it All: Use Camtasia's powerful screen recorder to capture anything on your screen. You can also import videos, music, and photos to customize your videos.

Create Powerful Videos: Edit and enhance your videos with Camtasia’s powerful editor, themes, animated backgrounds, graphics, callouts, and more.

Engage Your Audience: Produce interactive videos and then share videos that your viewers can watch anywhere, anytime.

Captions: Watch this video on how to Manually Add Captions to a Video.

Speech-To-Text Captions: Check this guide on how to use Speech-To-Text. This feature is only available for Windows users.

Please note: Auto-captions are often machine-generated captions with poor quality in which content is not accurately communicated to people who depend on captions. Auto-captions should be corrected for accuracy and provide equal access for everyone.

Watch this video on how to download and install Camtasia

Live Captioning

This feature is available on Chrome browser. It will not work with Mac Safari browser.

Here are the steps to turn on Google Slides captions:

  1. Make sure your microphone is on and working.
  2. Open a blank Google Slide presentation.
  3. Select Present to go into presentation mode.
  4. Select CC for Captions
  5. Position and size of the text can also be changed on the CC dropdown menu.

If you present slides over video conferencing software (such as Zoom), captions show up on the shared screen. To set expectations for your students, it's a good idea to tell them that captions are from Google Slides and that only the speaker's voice is captioned.

Note: Unfortunately, you can’t save or download the transcript.

For instructions on the Present Slides with Captions page.

Live Captioning

Web-based version: PowerPoint for the web and Microsoft Office 365 subscription has built-in automated live captions or subtitles. PowerPoint can transcribe what a person is saying and display them as captions. Note: Unfortunately, you can’t save or download the transcript.

Please note: Auto-captions are often machine-generated captions with poor quality in which content is not accurately communicated to people who depend on captions. Auto-captions should be corrected for accuracy and provide equal access for everyone.