Closed Captioning Blog

By adding captions to your live and on-demand webcast, you could reach billions more with your message. Captions created in virtually any language allow your video to be understood by the hearing-impaired as well as people speaking other languages. Also, think about people watching your video who are unable to turn on their speakers because they are at work, et cetera.  Webcast captions typically show up under the video so your entire video is able to be seen.

Most companies are able to caption webcasts in the following formats:

• Windows Media
• Real
• QuickTime
• Flash

THE ON-DEMAND PROCESS:

Client

• creates finalized webcast video file and post it to our FTP site

Captioning company

• creates verbatim transcript and translation
• creates caption (edit, sync and place text)
• performs caption quality check
• creates a caption file for your specific format
• emails the file to client

Client or Authorizing Company

• Your webmaster places webcast video and caption file in the same folder and captions appear when played. For multiple languages, your webmaster will create a button and text section on your website for users to select subtitle captioning. The webmaster will then link the file to your video.

THE LIVE PROCESS:

Client

• sets up encoder and webcast equipment
• provides audio and modem lines

Captioning Company

• provides live captioner to write the spoken word