1. The Wonderful World of Accessible Media Captioning Basics and MAGpie

2. The Wonderful World of Accessible Media  Definitions  Broad Overview  Caption Exercise

3. Captions  Definition  Written text representation of spoken words synchronized with the spoken words  What do they do?  Allow audio/video to be comprehended by individuals who do not have access to audio  Have been shown to help most people better understand/retain spoken information

4. Closed vs. Open Captioning  Definitions  Closed  Captions are not encoded directly in the video  Captions can be turned on or off as desired  Legal requirement for all TV sets larger than 13”  Open  Captions are encoded directly in the video  Captions can not be turned off  Used mainly in subtitled movies in theatres Which one is better?

5. Transcript  Definition  Written text representation of spoken words not synchronized with the spoken words  De facto in courtrooms

6. Audio Description  Definition  Verbal description of the action taking place in a visual medium  Used in “Blind Justice”

7. Nu ma Nu ma Example  Transcript vs. Captions  Are they equal legally?  Are they equal in effectiveness?  Are they equal in spirit?  Go to www.dso.ufl.edu/ela and click on Nu ma Transcriptwww.dso.ufl.edu/ela

8. 4 Steps to Captioning Bliss… 1.Record or attain a video of an event 2.Transcribe the event  Using traditional keyboard  Outsource to court reporter  Use voice dictation  Use 3 rd party application (i.e. CART)  End up with a transcript

9. 4 Steps to Captioning Bliss… 3.Sequence the video and transcript  Time code  Text document or 3 rd party application (i.e. MAGpie)  End up with a Time coded Transcript or SAMI/SMIL

10. Transcript or SAMI File  SAMI – Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange  Simply a text file  Consists of a tagged structure similar to HTML or web page files

11. Transcript or SAMI File  Requires a tag to start and end the file.  The tag controls when that particular caption should appear in milliseconds.

12. 4 Steps to Captioning Bliss… 4.Serving Technology  ASX or linker file  Equal access in delivery

13. Linker or Playlist File  This file tells Windows Media Player where the video file is and where the transcript or SAMI file is.  Again it’s just a simple text file with tags  Must start and end with an tag  In the tag list the video and SAMI file separated by a ? Mark.

14. 4 Steps to Captioning Bliss… 1.Record or attain a video of an event 2.Transcribe the event 3.Sequence the video and transcript 4.Serving Technology

15. Captioning Exercise  Open a browser and navigate to www.dso.ufl.edu/elawww.dso.ufl.edu/ela  Follow the directions and download the Finance video and Finance transcript (open the transcript file in Word and then save it back to itself)  Open MAGpie and select File > New Project to create a new caption project  On the video tab click the Browse button and find the finance video and then click OK  Import the transcript by selecting Stream > Import text… and finding the transcript  Play the finance video by pressing F6 and press F9 when the appropriate event is being spoken