As one of the most popular websites in the world, YouTube has added many features for accessibility to its users. The support for closed captioning is one feature that many online video content producers are taking advantage of these features.
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For someone who is new to non-live offline captioning, the most basic skill is to properly create a transcription of the video that needs to be captioned for TV broadcast. This article describes the simple guidelines and tools that are used by closed captioning service companies.
0 1 0 2 Looking at the specifications, or “specs,” for running the software is just one part of deciding on a new machine for your captioning needs. The actual creation of captions is not very resource intensive, so going by just the specs can be deceiving.
8 1 0 1 Oftentimes, clients who need captioning may not have a video file or tape master to provide a caption service company. The only source video is found as a completed DVD-Video master. This poses many challenges for captioners, because they have to find a way to access the video which is found on the DVD disc. Furthermore, to caption a DVD, a new master must be made with a DVD authoring system. This article touches upon many of these technical hurdles, and how to get past them to provide your clients with a closed captioned DVD master.
6 1 0 1 Rockville, MD (PRWEB) December 14, 2012
CPC, the leader in file-based closed captioning software, today announced compatibility between the company’s MacCaption software and Akamai’s Sola Media Solutions. As a result, customers can be confident that IP video delivered via Akamai’s globally distributed platform can seamlessly incorporate closed captions generated by CPC technology. This positions broadcasters, government agencies and other content providers and owners to meet FCC, Section 508 or other government regulations that mandate closed captioning be included with content streamed via the web.
CPC’s MacCaption software automatically converts TV closed caption data to web closed caption data, which can then be streamed in HD quality by Akamai. This means that any organization with a large number of archived captioned video files can reduce captioning operational time and errors by using batch processing mode to convert all the files in a folder to desired web captioning formats. MacCaption software can also create captions from scratch.
The first installation of CPC’s captioning support was accomplished working with Chesapeake Systems, a leading video systems integrator. In this installation, CPC provided the new MP4 captioning for a major international television network that uses Akamai’s Sola Media Solutions for video streaming. Chesapeake was able to take advantage of MacCaption’s command line interface in order to fit the solution into an automated video compression and delivery workflow.
In addition to the Sola-compatible video captioning for iOS and Flash® streaming, CPC software also supports closed captioning for iTunes®, YouTube, DFXP, Web VTT, UltraViolet™, and SMPTE Timed Text 2052.
For more info, please visit http://www.cpcweb.com/solutions/web.htm.
About CPC
Rockville, MD based CPC has been the captioning industry leader since 1986. CPC offers the most advanced closed captioning and subtitling software currently available, as well as the widest array of service options on the market, to organizations worldwide. For more information see http://www.cpcweb.com
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5 4 0 3 In the past, bringing closed captioning in-house wasn’t feasible for many organizations, due to the high cost of the necessary hardware and software –not to mention the specialized training required to run the system. Recent advances in affordable and easy-to-use closed captioning software encoders have made it possible for anyone to create their own closed captions, right from their NLE system. These advances have eliminated the need for expensive hardware and put closed captioning skills within the reach of content providers.
However, most organizations still hire a caption service provider to handle all of their captioning needs. With cost effective captioning software available, why would organizations want to use a captioning service?
4 3 0 5 We’ve added a new feature to both CaptionMaker (5.17) and MacCaption (5.4.21) called “QCC™ Multi-Format Input.” You can download the latest versions as long as your support contract is current.
This feature allows you to extract closed captions from a large variety of digital video file types. Some of these types were already supported, but this new import greatly expands the supported format combinations. Read more below to see a list of what formats this import adds support for.
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10 4 0 4 With live closed captioning, you can provide audiences with the same accessibility standards as in recorded videos. But, captioning live presents its own unique challenges, namely, accurately keeping up with the spoken dialogue.
Using speech recognition technologies can facilitate live captioning, while reducing your captioning costs. Read on to learn how to leverage speech recognition for a more efficient captioning process.
5 1 0 1 From Ars Technica:
In an agreement that the National Association for the Deaf (NAD) calls ”a model for the streaming video industry,” Netflix has agreed to caption all of its shows by the year 2014.
From the NAD web site:
Howard A. Rosenblum, CEO of NAD, the lead plaintiff in this case, said, “The National Association of the Deaf congratulates Netflix for committing to 100% captioning, and is thrilled to announce that 48 million deaf and hard of hearing people will be able to fully access Netflix’s Watch Instantly services.”
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