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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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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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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
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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
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
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- Netflix Subtitle Style Guide 2024