I want to expand a bit on the legal aspect of closed captioning. Similarly, if the viewer does not have headphones and cannot turn up the volume due to the need to keep noise to a minimum (like in a library or nursery), the captions are there to provide what is being spoken.If the viewer is in a noisy area and does not have access to headphones, the captions can be read while watching the video.Language learning relies heavily on captioned video.Many videos that are provided to the public must be captioned either due to federal communication law, or merely a company’s policy regarding accessibility. Captioned video also opens your market reach to a whole new segment of paying customers – the deaf!.The video’s transcripts are searchable, so you will get better Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which may give you a leg up on your competition.Captioned videos have better user retention of the video content.The following text is from the Movie Captioner eBook:Ĭaptioning video not only makes video accessible to the deaf and hard-of-hearing, but there are other compelling reasons for it as well. If captions are something you need to do, I recommend you take a close look at MovieCaptioner.Ī 14-day free trial is available, as are volume discounts. While it does not yet natively support CEA-708 format captions, there are work-arounds which support that format and the developer is about to release an update which will support this latest format as well. MovieCaptioner is flexible, capable and supports a wide variety of import formats and an even wider variety of export formats for web and broadcast. I want to especially mention his excellent eBook, which provides a background on closed captioning as well as practical advice on using the program. MovieCaptioner is a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to expensive services and software which creates and adds closed-captions on movies.ĭeveloped by Patrick Besong, whose day job is in Penn State’s Education Technology Services department, its available for either Macintosh and Windows systems, features a straight-forward interface, and offers responsive support from the developer. So, in doing some research, I discovered a very cost-effective alternative: MovieCaptioner, from SynchriMedia. If you are a small production house, spending $6K to create captions for 30-second ads for your local broadcast station is a LOT of money. (Telestream purchased the original company earlier in 2015.) However, while MacCaption has virtually every bell-and-whistle you could want, it’s expensive with a starting price of $1,095 for the web and $6,325 to include broadcast formats. In the past, my knee-jerk reaction was to recommend Telestream’s MacCaption. I’d love to see some training on how to transcribe program audio, import a transcript format into Final Cut X, and generate a file for broadcast, and a file for web/streaming, and for DVD or BluRay, that is CEA-708-compliant.” “Larry, we’re going nuts here, trying to figure out the best ways to handle and create closed-captioned videos in FCPX, without spending six grand to buy MacCaption. One of the most frequent requests I get are variations on this email from Mark Suszko:
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