Lectora X - Closed Captioning?

I appreciate the replys from both Judy and Dwayne.

Here in a nutshell I will explain my solution. First, and key to my solution, I was able to alter the deliverable from being published "to Single File Executable" to being published "to CDRom". Without this change it would not have worked.

I am using flv video files and timed text .xml files for captions.

1. create a new fla (Flash Player 9 & Actionscript 3)


2. place an FLVPlayback component on the stage and enter a relative path to the .flv file (note I placed the flv in the "media" directory generated by Lectora)


3. select a skin for the FLVPlayback component that includes captions


4. add an FLVPlaybackCaptioning component to the stage and enter relative path to the caption document (in my case a Timed Text XML file this can be )


5. compile the fla to generate a swf

Now it's ready to go into Lectora

1. add an animation object to your stage in Lectora


2. import the swf created in the previous steps


3. make sure the background color of your swf is the same as the background color where it will be placed in Lectora (note the parameter to make the swf have a transparent background only works when publishing to HTML)

When publishing to CDRom you may need to copy several files into the proper directories of the structure created by Lectora

These are likly to be:

1. the swf that is the skin for the FLVPlayback component


2. the flv file


3. the xml caption file

It may seem like alot but it cuts down a ton of time in my workflow and allows for a lotmore customization of player skins than Lectora alone ... not to mention I actually have Closed Captioning (the most important goal for me and the project I am working on) now not the Open Captioning that Lectora provides. I hope this helps others that are looking for a more simple solution for CLOSED CAPTIONING.