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It's so easy to create and insert captions using the Caption Editor within the STAMP add-in for PowerPoint 2010 - but if you captions already available as TTML files, you can import those captions into PowerPoint even more easily.

Follow these steps to import captions contained inside TTML XML files within PowerPoint 2010:

1. Before importing any captions, you need a slide that has a video clip inserted - if you don't have such a slide, do insert a video (movie) clip in PowerPoint. Select the inserted video, and you'll activate the Video Tools tab of the Ribbon. Then click the Playback tab highlighted in red, as shown in Figure 1.
   
   
   Figure 1: Select the Playback tab
   
   
2. Within the Captions group, click the bottom part of the Add Captions button to bring up the menu shown in Figure 2. Then choose the Caption from File option.
   
   
   Figure 2: Click the Captions from File option
   
   
   Tip: Don't see the Add Captions button? You need to install the free STAMP add-in for PowerPoint 2010.
   
   
3. This brings up the Open dialog box, as shown in Figure 3. Locate the folder where your TTML XML file is saved, select it and click the Open button.
   
   
   Figure 3: Open dialog box
   
   
4. This will open the Load Captions window (see Figure 4). Click the OK button to import the captions.
   
   
   Figure 4: Load Captions window
   
   
   Note: Choose the Edit Caption check box within Load Caption window only if you want to edit the captions after they have been imported into your presentation. By selecting the Edit Caption check box you'll get the Caption Editor window where you can edit the imported captions.
   
   
5. This imports the captions into PowerPoint for the selected movie clip, as shown in Figure 5.
   
   
   Figure 5: Captions imported into PowerPoint
   
   
6. Play the slideshow to see all the captions playing. Save your presentation.

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