Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning
Updated Feb 22, 2012 8:08 AM
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Tools for DIY Captioning

There are several free or low-cost tools, software, and online, to help anyone who wants to caption their videos and make them accessible to millions around the world. 
We welcome feedback and suggestions for additions, email to ccacaptioning@gmail.com

The following information provides our best effort to educate and advise. If you want more information, join the CCAC and ask the volunteers! Collaborate on CCAC caps (captioning advocacy projects).

(There is a new document - spreadsheet - created by two members of the CCAC, with more details and comparisons of online captioning tools.  When the owner of the document publishes it on a website, we'll share the URL in all CCAC networks.

Update, 2/2012: Temporarily, we post their spreadsheet here, due to needs globally, and if questions, do not email the ccac - email Zehavit via gtranslations.com. 
 

Zehavit Ehre, Golden Translations, www.gtranslations.com)

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Software Programs: 


MAGpie - desktop software program

Synchrimedia - shareware for 30 days, after that is costs 


Online Information and Systems for Captioning:
Universal Subtitles -  Universal Subtitles is highly recommended by many. For example, if you upload your video to a Vimeo account, you can caption using Universal Subtitles (free). 

Some of the steps involve the following: streaming your video from its published online address; using a transcript, and following further instructions on the site.

Universal Subtitles works with Ogg, WebM, flv, mp4, Youtube, Vimeo or Dailymotion

YouTube and Google have good materials online to educate about how to add captioning to YouTube videos online.  
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Join the CCAC (free membership) and give us comments in the CCAC members' forum online!
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overstream.net is an online captioning tool

NEW: A question that often comes up is how to "replace" the original youtube video (without cc) with the newly cc'd version one creates with universal subs. Here is one answer:
After creating the captions on Universal you need to export the captions as an SRT file. Then the owner of the Youtube channel  should add this file to the video. Here are the instructions on how to do that:

In other words, the owner of the youtube channel, needs to do the cc with information from you, the good advocate! Thanks to ZE (see above) for this explanation and generous participation in the CCAC.

AND - ALSO - FROM CCAC CONSUMER MEMBER, THIS IS HELPFUL TOO, FROM UNIVERSAL SUBS THEMSELVES:
> I came across this about transferring from Universal Subtitles to Youtube.   Scroll down to about the 4th paragraph from where the person provides an answer to that question.   https://universalsubtitles.tenderapp.com/discussions/general-discussion/90-created-version-with-subtitles-got-url-now-what


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More Online Information and Tools:




Here are two more links mentioned to CCAC by DCMP:

http://youtubeready.dcmp.org/ . 

http://www.dcmp.org/caai/nadh10.pdf . 


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Quick YouTube Transcription to Captioning Instructions -

NOTE: At this time you can only caption videos you have posted/hosted.  You can upload a video, caption it, and download the timed file, you can NOT download a fully captioned video at this time.
  1. Access YouTube and sign in.  
  2. Click "My Videos" from the top right navigation widget.  
  3. Locate the video you want to add the transcription to.  
  4. Ensure it is set to "Private" until you are finished with the following steps.
  5. Click "Captions" or "Captions and Transcripts" (I've forgotten which it says at this point, it does change).  
  6. You will "upload" your transcript file.  Click the selection that says something like "from a document" instead of the "with timing" one.
This will take some time to process.
Once complete, download the resulting file (it has an .sbv extension) and store it for later steps and record keeping.
Click the video and see how it looks.  
  1. Make changes to the .sbv file by opening in Word.  
  2. You may have garbage content to remove near the beginning or end of the file if there is extra content in your transcript file, music, or other notations.  You CAN move some text from one set of timing to the other.  You CAN note if the text is a "speech as written" as long as the content gets the point across.
  3. Save as the same file type.
If you make changes, you need to REMOVE the existing file from YouTube before uploading the corrected one.  I frequently save this down as a new name just in case something goes wrong.

We do this because the processing takes a long time on the native Word file.
Upload the new .sbv file "with timing" from the selection option.  This is very quick.
  1. Click the video and see how it looks.  
  2. Download the .sbv file again and repeat steps 8 through 12 until you are happy with the video.
Set your new video to "Public" in the settings to share with the world.

COMMENT ON ABOVE, 13 JANUARY from Claude A: These instructions concern adding a transcript to a YT video to have it timecoded into subtitles by the YT automatic synchronization. 
 
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CAPTIONING DVD'S
Basic workflow for captioning video content on accessibleseinfeld.com

1. Using Mac OS X - I use an app called "grappler" (from the little app factory) to download any unencrypted video content that is available on the web.

This app really is "foolproof". All you need to do is enter the URL for the website where the video is located on the web, such as YouTube links etc.

They also have another app that copies a DVD's video and / or audio.

2. Once you've got a video file - I then upload it to either Casting Words or Speakertext to get a text transcript.

These services vary in price - but both offer good quality text transcription services for around $2 per minute.

3. Once you've got a text transcript, you can use YouTube's voice recognition services to produce a closed caption file (in their proprietary .sbv format).

To do this, you just upload the video file and then add the text transcript file (which is still a BETA service).

Usually it is about 90% accurate first time around, as there are often timing issues which need to be fixed.

This is easily done using any text editor (I use TextEdit on the Mac) to adjust the timing of lines which "flash up" for a microsecond, etc.

Once you're happy with the edited .sbv closed caption file, delete the one created by YouTube and upload your final .sbv file and Bob's your uncle!
Contributed by CCAC Member Michael Lockrey, Aug 2011
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