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Netflix Subtitle Style Guide 2024
SUPPORT PARTNER HELP CENTER English Timed Text Style Guide English Timed Text Style Guide *This document covers the language specific requirements for English. Please make sure to also review the General Requirements Section for comprehensive guidelines surrounding Timed Text deliveries to Netflix. I. Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH) This section applies… Continue reading
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Ai-Media Caption Style Guide
How to create professional captions Captions are the text version of a video’s audio content with additional timing information which allows them to appear on screen in time with the video. SRT files are the most common caption file used by online video players such as YouTube and Vimeo. They are considered the most basic… Continue reading
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BBC Subtitle Style Guide 2024
BBC Subtitle Guidelines Version 1.2.3June 2024 OVERVIEW 1 Introduction Subtitles are primarily intended to serve viewers with loss of hearing, but they are used by a wide range of people: around 10% of broadcast viewers use subtitles regularly, increasing to 35% for some online content. The majority of these viewers are not hard of hearing. This document… Continue reading
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SCC CEA-608 Closed Caption File Codes
SCC files are written in hexadecimal numbers. SCC stands for Scenarist Closed Captions. SCC closed caption files are easily converted to MCC CEA-608/708 closed caption files. For troubleshooting, convert SCC file to txt file and start converting the four-digit codes to commands, letters, and numbers. Continue reading
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Why AI Captions Need Better Formatting
A popular AI broadcast caption service– let’s call it Flexi– ignores a key rule of captioning. It’s captioning canon to start a new caption line after a sentence ends. AI captions don’t bother with a new caption line. After a sentence ends, AI captions start a new sentence on the same line. A human stenographer… Continue reading
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Creating IMSC1 files with CaptionMaker
An IMSC 1 caption file’s size is larger than the corresponding SCC caption file. Continue reading
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Telestream CaptionMaker- How to Offset or Ripple Timecode
I use Telestream CaptionMaker’s (for Windows) “Ripple Timecode” feature when I combine individual segments into a program or dividing a program into individual segments. _________________________________________________________________ Select the caption line where you want the timecode ripple to start. Select the new starting timecode. OPEN RIPPLE TIMECODE GUI There is a keyboard shortcut to open the Ripple… Continue reading
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Spanish Captions: Comma, period, or space to separate decimals into three-digit groups?
Groups of numbers are separated differently in different Spanish-speaking countries. These differences in the separator sign for decimals can stand out when using Ai to translate English closed captions to Spanish closed captions. The use of each of these signs is geographically distributed almost equally among Spanish-speaking countries. The Royal Spanish Academy said about the… Continue reading
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Ai-Media EEG Charging Stenographers to Use iCap
Since Australian company Ai-Media bought EEG, there has been a noticible shift in pricing. Instead of charging a hefty purchase price up-front, they now charge ongoing fees whenever possible. I preferred EEG’s traditional pricing structure when they were a small family-run company. In 2023, Ai-Media EEG started charging stenographers an hourly fee to use iCap.… Continue reading
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NCRA Realtime Broadcast Captioning Style and Format Guides for U.S.
Live captions start a new line after sentence-ending punctuation. 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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