CAPTIONING ONLINE MEDIA An introductory guide for colleges and universities Mary Reilly Captioned Media Specialist Services for Students with Disabilities University of Michigan

Terminology Open Captions Permanently displayed on screen Closed Captions Embedded in video; can be turned on/off Captions vs Subtitles Closed captions: English / native language [CC] Subtitles: Foreign Language Subtitles for Deaf/Hard of Hearing [SDH] Lay “over” the video file

Mac OS, File Formats, & Players Mac vs Windows operating systems Mac OS X recommended for videos / digital media MPEG4 / MOV video file formats High quality and half the storage space Playback on QuickTime Player Self-contained Video QuickTime Player (version 10 and 7) QuickTime Player 10 – used for audio/video recording QuickTime Player 7 – (older version) used to extract audio

Caption Files SubRip.SRT Caption Files

Character encoding UTF-8 - Current standard in use today

Video Ownership Do you own the copyright to the Internet video?

Five Basic Steps 1. Download the video ( If you don’t own it) 2. Create a transcript 3. Generate a SubRip (.SRT) caption file 4. Add the SRT file to the video 5. Playback the video

Step 1: Download the Video There are several ways and methods to download videos off the Internet. Factors: Operating System (OS), Internet browsers A good summary to find a tool that works for you: videos/ videos/

Download Videos via Web Services Mac platform, free, Google Chrome not supported

KeepVid.com

Download Videos via Browser Extensions / Plugins Video DownloadHelper (Firefox) downloadhelper/ downloadhelper/

Video DownloadHelper (Firefox)

Download Videos from Desktop YTD Video Downloader

Step 2: Create a Transcript Separate the audio track from the video a. Open MP4 video in QuickTime Player 7 b. Go to Window menu 1. Choose ‘Show Movie Properties’ c. Extract ‘Sound Track’ d. Save as ‘AUDIO [title]’ in folder with video

Professional Transcriptionists Medical transcribers – send video/audio files via Skype Turnaround: hours depending on length and priority Price: $ per line

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Online Captioning Services Automatic Sync Technologies:

Automatic Sync Technologies Turnaround: 72 hours (usually sooner) $159/hour ($2.65/min) for transcript + caption (SRT) file Captioning files: $69/hour

Online Captioning Services 3PlayMedia:

3PlayMedia Turnaround: 4 business days $150/hour ($2.50/min) for transcript + caption file (SRT file) Transcription Alignment: $1.25/min / $75/hour

Do-It-Yourself Online Transcription Amara – Follow the steps / tutorial videos to transcribe and time code video

Do-It-Yourself Online Transcription CaptionTube – Import Specific Video (copy/paste the YouTube URL) Transcribe and time code video Click ‘Publish’ Click ‘Download to My Computer’ (SRT file)

Dictation (App) Dictation (Google Chrome App) – Need to have a microphone installed on computer

Step 3: Generate a SubRip (.SRT file) Save all transcript files as Plain Text Document (TXT) files Read text as: Unicode (UTF-8)

Amara SRT Files Transcripts can be uploaded to Amara.org Save as TXT file - Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8) Double-space after each sentence / caption line Time code the video When captioning is complete… Click on ‘English’ Click on ‘Download Subtitles’ SRT file (time-coded caption file) will be downloaded to computer Save to Desktop or file folder

Amara SRT files

CaptionSync & 3PlayMedia CaptionSync and 3PlayMedia will create SRT files

Step 4: Add SubRip (SRT) files to Video iSubtitle – ($20)

Creating Subtitled Video in iSubtitle (Demonstration video on how to use iSubtitle to embed a SRT caption file into a video.)

Creating [CC] Video in MacCaption Video on how to export video as a QuickTime video (QTCC) with closed-captions embedded.

Step 5: Where to Play This Video? Course Management Software (Blackboard, etc.) Videos can be uploaded to site Flash Drive / CD Give hard copy to professor / student Be sure to explain how to view captions/subtitles in QuickTime Player

Questions? Mary Reilly Captioned Media Specialist Services for Students with Disabilities University of Michigan