1. CAPTIONING ONLINE MEDIA An introductory guide for colleges and universities Mary Reilly Captioned Media Specialist Services for Students with Disabilities University of Michigan reillym@umich.edu 734.763.3035

2. 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

3. 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

4. Caption Files SubRip.SRT Caption Files

5. Character encoding UTF-8 - Current standard in use today

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

7. 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

8. 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: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/download-youtube- videos/ http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/download-youtube- videos/

9. Download Videos via Web Services www.keepvid.com Mac platform, free, Google Chrome not supported

10. KeepVid.com

11. Download Videos via Browser Extensions / Plugins Video DownloadHelper (Firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video- downloadhelper/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video- downloadhelper/

12. Video DownloadHelper (Firefox)

13. Download Videos from Desktop YTD Video Downloader http://www.ytddownloader.com/mac/

14. 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

15. Professional Transcriptionists Medical transcribers – send video/audio files via Skype Turnaround: 24-72 hours depending on length and priority Price: $.12-15 per line

16. MEDI-TRAN Invoice March 2013 #Document Custom Lines RateAmount 1Oprah_20th _Anniversary_AIDS_Clip-True_Transcipt.doc127.810.1215.34 2Cynthia_Clip-True_Transcript.doc23.810.122.86 3Cynthia_Film-True_Transcript.doc28.040.123.36 4Cynthia_QuickTime-True_Transcript.doc21.470.122.58 5Dentist_Negotiation.doc32.980.123.96 6Murphy_Brown_Negotiation-True_Transcipt.doc154.260.1218.51 7Miss_Representation-Official_Trailer-True_Transcript.doc43.10.125.17 8STATS_250-Lecture_02-21-13.doc572.810.1268.74 9STATS_250-Lecture_02-26-13.doc818.150.1298.18 10STATS_250-Lecture_02-28-13.doc735.920.1288.31 Subtotal:5665.85 679.91 Total: 679.91

17. Online Captioning Services Automatic Sync Technologies: http://www.automaticsync.com/captionsync/

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

19. Online Captioning Services 3PlayMedia: http://www.3playmedia.com/

20. 3PlayMedia Turnaround: 4 business days $150/hour ($2.50/min) for transcript + caption file (SRT file) Transcription Alignment: $1.25/min / $75/hour

21. Do-It-Yourself Online Transcription Amara – http://www.amara.orghttp://www.amara.org Follow the steps / tutorial videos to transcribe and time code video

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

23. Dictation (App) Dictation (Google Chrome App) – http://ctrlq.org/dictation/http://ctrlq.org/dictation/ Need to have a microphone installed on computer

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

25. 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

26. Amara SRT files

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

28. Step 4: Add SubRip (SRT) files to Video iSubtitle – http://www.bitfield.se/isubtitle/ ($20)http://www.bitfield.se/isubtitle/

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

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

31. 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

32. Questions? Mary Reilly Captioned Media Specialist Services for Students with Disabilities University of Michigan reillym@umich.edureillym@umich.edu 734.763.3035