Captions in Our Culture
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OTT Online Platforms’ Caption Formats
Caption File Formats While broadcast caption files are embedded in the video, Internet captions are sidecar files that get uploaded after the video is. IP platforms use many caption formats. The hexadecimal SCC Line 21 caption format carries a timed transcript with formatting and positioning. DXFP, SRT, SVB, and VTT captions are human-readable. Internet Closed… Continue reading
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Online caption requirement depends on broadcast status
Online captions are not mandate unless video has a broadcast date Continue reading
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Evaluating or Troubleshooting Caption UX Across Online Platforms– IP Streaming Edition
Download Online Closed Captioning User Experience _UX_ Evaluation_Troubleshooting Log PDF\ Online CC UX Hello, CaptionBreakers, Occasionally, a web streaming service will update its server in a way that “breaks” the closed caption display. Streaming service providers can be reluctant to admit that: A. There is a problem with online closed captioning. and that B. That… Continue reading
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No robots!
A non-profit 501c3 organization called The Closed Captioning Project is dedicated to providing high-quality closed captions and to educating people about the differences between AI auto-generated speech-to-text captions and captions written by a trained human. The Closed Captioning Project does a good job contrasting robocaptioning and human captioning. Continue reading
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Force caption language on YouTube (2019)
If your viewer’s language preference is set to English, and you have uploaded your captions in English, then they will see your captions in English; If you want to force your captions play in a certain language, you can embed the video on your website and add the code &hl=es&cc_lang_pref=es&cc_load_policy=1 after your video ID in the iframe embed.… Continue reading
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Translate your closed captions to 100+ languages with Google Translate
https://translate.google.com/intl/en/about/languages/ As of today, 100+ languages… Languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada,… Continue reading
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Uploading Hmong (Daw) captions to YouTube
Hey, ho, this is CaptionBreaker here. Made both English and Hmong caption files to upload to YouTube. YouTube doesn’t have a caption language selection specifically for Hmong yet. When I entered Hmong for the language, YouTube saved those captions as “Cantonese (Hong Kong)” At the same time, if I upload English captions, and ask YouTube… Continue reading
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Belly Captions
For this program, the captions were in the standard position of the bottom of the screen. Unfortunately, those closed captions block a lower-third. ________________________________________ Prior to early 2015, broadcasters were not required to reposition closed captions to avoid blocking on-screen text (nor to avoid covering people’s faces so viewers can lip-read.) In February 2015, the… Continue reading
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Well said, Streaming Media magazine! Liam Moran’s “Writing Text for Video: Did Someone Say ‘Autumn Aided Cap Shins’?”
The following article by Liam Moran in the June 2018 volume of Streaming Media magazine does a fantastic job explaining the shortcomings of automated Artifical Intelligence (AI) captions. Worth reading! http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Writing-Text-for-Video-Did-Someone-Say-Autumn-Aided-Cap-Shins-125614.aspx Writing Text for Video: Did Someone Say ‘Autumn Aided Cap Shins’? Maybe, but they probably said “automated captions.” Creating reliable captions is a challenge, but… Continue reading
About Me
Hello there! My name is Vicki Kipp, and I am a closed caption maker. Making closed captions is time consuming and complicated, so this blog is a collection of all of the knowledge and experiences I have gained. I hope my collection of tips and tricks might help you with your closed caption work the way it has helped me!
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