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- Richard Bloom
Educational Technology Services,
UC Berkeley
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Webcast Captioning with CaptionSync™
Streaming video content over the web is gaining tremendous popularity,
particularly in education, and as support for seminars, and conferences.
This new medium allows viewers to attend a presentation without the inconvenience of travel,
and can substantially reduce facilities costs for the content provider.
Captioned webcasts foster a better viewing experience, which in turn leads to higher
adoption rates, better retention of the presented material, and higher user
satisfaction. Automatic Sync Technologies (AST) maintains a strong focus on webcasting,
especially in educational settings, and can work with clients to develop fully
automated solutions to caption and publish webcast content.
Compliance
ADA and Section 508 requires captioning for most broadcast and distributed video content.
Webcasts fall under Section 508 and are subject to these captioning requirements.
If you are making a webcast publicly available, then it should be captioned.
Minutes later, you will receive a caption result file that is ready for
encoding. Many standard formats are available, including .CAP, .XMS, and/or .ASC
formats to be directly imported into CPC, MacCaption, Cheetah, or RapidText for line-21 encoding.
We also deliver .SCC, .STL, and/or .TXT result files which can used in authoring packages
like Apple's DVD Studio Pro, Sonic's DVDit Pro, or Adobe's Encore.
Additional Benefits
Captioning also offers a number of additional benefits to all users that should not be overlooked:
- Indexing and Searching: because captioning involves the synchronization of text content with the audio/video material, it allows the content to become easily searchable with traditional text searches
- Universal Access: design your content from the ground up to be as usable as possible by as many people as possible.
- Improving Comprehension: captioning improves comprehension for all viewers, especially for those with English as a second language.
- Alleviating Increasing Stress on Physical Facilities: many institutions are looking to online education to deliver instruction to growing ranks of learners while controlling their on-campus facilities costs.
The CaptionSync Automated Captioning Process
All of the major media players (Real, QuickTime, and Windows Media) allow for automatically streaming and playing
captions with video content. In all three cases, the captions are stored in a secondary file, and do not
impact your media file, or the process by which you produce it.
Upon submitting your media file to AST for captioning, you will receive the appropriate secondary file
containing the caption data. Your media server can then easily be made to stream both the media file and
the caption data file to viewers, automatically enabling captions to be viewed.
Advanced Features
Using a standard set of markup commands, producers can optionally “mark-up” the text transcript in order to control the exact format, location and content of the captions. This feature allows producers to dictate the font, color, and positioning of any caption, as well as provide content to appear in the captions that is not found in the audio track.
Advanced Features
Contact us to set up a login ID on the caption server, and give the system a try!