Caption Equipment
-
Monitoring issues are the best kind of issue
… that sometimes the caption file isn’t broken and the MPEG transcoder isn’t broken, and the captions are actually fine. The Link caption decoder merely needed to be power-cycled to get the caption display back to good. Monitoring issues are the best kind of issue to have. Yours verbatim, Caption Breaker “Captions: so hard to… Continue reading
-
You get caption line 1 Pop1 or Caption line 2 Pop2, but not 2 lines displayed; 50% of captions is <50% useful
The other day, my captions got broke in a new and interesting way. No run-of-the-mill known-issues for me. No, my captions had strange, rare symptoms that got no hits in a web search. Let’s pretend for a moment that we are caption doctors, and have been presented with captions that have a collection of odd… Continue reading
-
Does this horizontal padding between lines make my captions look gawky? JW Player 7 0 1 platform
Not sure why this is happening, but a few months ago captions posted to AWS and played on JW Player started getting positioned with this blank black space positioned between and . Perhaps coincidentally, it was around this time that JW Player had an update. <Pop1> is positioned at (x= 35% – 27.5%, y=79.33% – 5.33%) <p region=’pop1′… Continue reading
-
608 Roll Up Captions are but a flash on the screen on JW Player 7 0 1 ADS
Lots of broadcasters format their captions in Roll Up format (as opposed to Pop On), especially for live television. Live news shows and sports events are Roll Up. Live captioning can only be formatted as roll up. Roll up works fine for live TV, but does not display correctly when converted to a web-compatible format… Continue reading
-
The Closed Captioning Handbook is All-Inclusive
The Closed Captioning Handbook is All-Inclusive By Vicki Kipp SBE CHAPTER 24 NEWSLETTER March 1, 2003 If you want to know just about anything and everything about closed captioning for broadcast, then The Closed Captioning Handbook is the book for you. Author Gary D. Robson has compiled details on all areas of closed captioning in… 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
- FCC Website Requirement: FCC Applications Link/Page
- Engineering Perspective: Closed Captioning Broadcast Engineering Videos
- Comments on FCC Docket No. 16-142_ Authorizing Permissive Use of the Next Generation Broadcast Television Standard
- How to Replace a Transmission Line Watchband Spring
- Netflix Subtitle Style Guide 2024