From the course: Camtasia Studio 8 Essential Training
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Syncing with a script - Camtasia Tutorial
From the course: Camtasia Studio 8 Essential Training
Syncing with a script
Another way to add a closed caption track to your Camtasia Studio project is by synchronizing the text from a script that you've written in another application directly into your project. To do this, let's go ahead minimize our Camtasia project, and we're going to open up the file PowerPoint Script.txt. This is just a plain text document that is a script that I used when I recorded the PowerPoint presentation. Let's go ahead and select all of the text by pressing Control+A on our keyboard, then Control+C to copy all of the text. We can then go back to our Camtasia project, and in the Captions section, there's a place for us to click, and paste the script directly into our project. We'll click into that field, and then press the Control+V key on our keyboard to paste in all of the text. In order to be ADA compliant, we need to keep in mind that we're only allow to have three lines of text included in any one caption. Camtasia recognizes this, and all of the text past those first three…
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