Adding Video Captions/Subtitles to Uploaded (Not Embedded) Videos

Hi there,

I'm experimenting with uploading .mp4 videos directly to Squarespace rather than embedding YouTube/Vimeo videos. It works fine but there doesn't seem to be any way to add a caption file, and the video player doesn't include closed caption options when you click on the little gear icon. When I look at the code, it seems that Squarespace includes a <div class="plyr__captions"></div> for captions, but it's empty.

I thought I'd try uploading a caption file to Squarespace's CDN and then use a code block with <video> and <track> tags to create a player (thusly: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Audio_and_video_delivery/Adding_captions_and_subtitles_to_HTML5_video) but before I go about reinventing the wheel ... does anyone have experience with adding subtitles/captions to an uploaded (not embedded) video in Squarespace?

Thanks in advance,

Prescott

Hi CPiu94 - I'm wondering if you were ever able to add captions to your videos? Did that HTML code work? I'm building a course in SS, and need my videos to have captions  - were you able to figure this out? If so, would you mind telling me how? Thank you so much. I'm totally stuck.

On 10/20/2022 at 7:35 AM, paul2009 said:

captioning feature has not been added yet. 

Captioning is not currently possible on Squarespace-hosted videos. You may want to look at Vimeo as an alternative if you require captioning.

when will captions and subtitles be available on squarespace? I'm hoping soon as I'm about to launch my online course and it'll be such a help, do you know any time frame when this will be available or do we need to opt for a different platform