News in the Field
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Going to School in Broadcast Engineering
By Vicki W. Kipp June 2, 2023 We are grappling with how to recruit new broadcast engineers to replace us so we can retire. As broadcast engineers, that means being prepared. We want to find and train our replacement. But there is a dire shortage of new broadcast engineers. Until a decade or two ago,… Continue reading
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Broadcast Engineering Badges with Scouts BSA
By Vicki W. KippSociety of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) Chapter 24 NewsletterMarch 1, 2023 The organization we knew as ‘Boy Scouts’ in our youth is now called ‘Scouts BSA.’ Starting in 2019, girls are allowed to join Scouts BSA troops and earn badges. There are separate boys’ troops and girls’ troops. Did you know that Scouts… 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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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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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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Using REV.com for web captioning
REV.com for web captioning – Upload video file – Download SRT caption format for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. – For YouTube, it’s best to use SCC caption format because then your captions can include positioning information to avoid covering on-screen graphics. Continue reading
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SRT sidecar caption files for closed captioning Twitter video
Twitter caption file format is SRT. You can upload the video and the SRT caption file using Twitter Media Studio at https://twitter.com/login?redirect_after_login=https:/studio.twitter.com Instructions: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/media-studio 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
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Caption fail at Princess Eugenie’s wedding
Twitter caption read: “What a beautiful breasts. Absolutely fitting her.” A spokesperson for the BBC said: “Our live subtitling service produces accuracy levels in excess of 98% but, as with all broadcasters, there are instances- particularly during live broadcasts – when mistakes happen. On this occasion the voice recognition subtitling software made an error.” And… 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!
Recent Posts
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