Captioning Project
Overview of the Captioning Project UW-IT short-term funding is available to caption: Videos available to the public on a high-use website Videos that will be used multiple times in a course Videos developed by several faculty members to be used in several different classes
Captioning Project Progress By the numbers: 630 videos have been captioned 169 hours of video have been captioned 11 departments excluding DRS have accounts with 3Play Media Captioned videos will be reused in 60 classes per year Over 750,000 individuals are estimated to watch the videos each year Increased the numbers of videos captioned on campus by 6.3%
Captioning Project Progress (cont.) Products: Created a video: “Making Videos Accessible” Promising Practice has been created to document how to setup a captioning project on a college campus
Captioning Project Video http://www.washington.edu/doit/videos/index.php?vid=86 http://www.washington.edu/doit/videos/index.php?vid=86
Captioning Tips & Tutorials
Overview of the Captioning Training The training includes the topics: Captioning in YouTube Using Amara and Camtasia to assist in caption creation Facebook captions Uploading captions in Vimeo Setting up an account with 3Play Media Helpful hints
Captioning Basics (1 of 3) Anatomy of a caption file: SRT caption file Simple text file with time stamps that can be opened with Word, Notepad, etc.
Captioning Basics (2 of 3) DCMP Captioning Key http://www.captioningkey.org/quality_captioning.html This can be used as a resource if you are captioning your own videos and not using a captioning vendor
Captioning Basics (3 of 3) YouTube: Will create auto-generated captions Not accurate enough to be compliant Use the built-in editor to Correct auto-generated captions Create captions from scratch or Import a script and sync with the video
How to setup Captioning Training Contact Doug to setup training for: Individuals Departments General questions about captioning
3-Play Media Departments can setup their own account by contacting: Erin Batog Account Executive 3Play Media erin@3playmedia.com 617-764- 5189 X109
Links to Project Products http://www.washington.edu/accessibility/videos/ https://www.washington.edu/doit/uw-it%E2%80%99s-captioning-project-promising-practice-setting-captioning-project-college-campus