Caption Equipment
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When your live captioner leaves you hanging…
The live captioner canceled on us at the last minute because their “caption hardware stopped working.” Our captioning agency was not able to find another captioner until our live-from-tape program aired live tonight. The caption agency was apologetic. Live captioners are in high demand and low supply. Any captioner that might have been available… Continue reading
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Mangled SCC files and decoder rings
00:21:34;18 94ae 94ae 9420 9420 9454 9454 It’s for | ef small 0 | f2 small r | | 9470 Position cursor at row 15, column 00, with plain white text. | 9470 Position cursor at row 15, column 00, with plain white text. | 9723 9723 7361 |f468 small t | e5f2 small r… Continue reading
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Closed Captioning Broadcast Engineering Videos
The Signal Volume 36, Issue 1 • February 2023 The Association for Broadcast and Multimedia Professionals The Bimonthly Publication of the Society of Broadcast Engineers sbe.org ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE: Closed Captioning Broadcast Engineering Videos By Vicki W. Kipp, CPBE, ATSC3, CBNT Closed Caption Manager Have you ever watched a technical video that is timely, but difficult… Continue reading
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Dissecting SCC file Caption Codes
Real-time Live Caption Codes 9137 ♪ 9420 Pop-On caption line 9429 Paint-On caption Line SCC Display Format codes Paint-On Preamble 942c 9429 Pop-On Preamble 9420 Paint-On End of Caption Pop-On End of Caption 8080 8080 942f 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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Captions enabled, but not visible
DTV captions let the viewer select parameters for how their DTV captions will display. (Figure 1) This is probably a TV caption settings issue. (Figure 2, Figure 3) Figure 1: Samsung DTV caption settings: Figure 2: Charter DTV caption settings: Setting Description Options Text Settings Change the color, transparency, size and font of your Closed… Continue reading
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Troubleshooting broadcast caption display issue on viewer’s home television
Before you begin troubleshooting with the viewer, it’s worth checking if the TV station have any other reports have any other viewer reports of a caption display issue with this program? DTV captions let the viewer select parameters for how their DTV captions will display. (Figure 1) This is probably a TV caption settings issue.… 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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How to gather EEG iCap log
If you’re like many broadcasters or live captioners, you use EEG’s iCap service to host the connection between captioner and the TV station. As copper phone lines, aka POTS (Plain Old Telephone System), began to be phased out to be replaced by Internet data connections, an Internet-based service to connect the captioner’s stenotype machine 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!
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