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

Five Basic Steps 1.  Download the video 2.  Create a transcript 3.  Generate a SubRip (.SRT) caption file 4.  Add the SRT file to the video 5.  Playback the video with captions

YouTube Automatic Captions

Transcripts have to be 97-100% accurate to be comprehensible to a reader.

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Terminology • Open Captions

• Permanently displayed on screen • Closed Captions [CC]

• Embedded in video; can be turned on/off • Captions vs Subtitles

• Closed captions: English / native language • Subtitles: Foreign Language

• Subtitles for Deaf/Hard of Hearing [SDH] •  Lay “over” the video file

Terminology • Captions vs Transcripts

•  Transcripts in and of themselves fulfill accessibility considerations.

• Captions not only display words as the textual equivalent of spoken dialogue or narration they also include speaker identification, sound effects, and music description.

Mac OS X, File Formats, & Players • Macintosh vs Microsoft 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

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: “16 Alternative Ways to Download Online Videos”

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

Download Videos via Web Services KeepVid: www.keepvid.com • Mac platform (free), Google Chrome (not supported)

KeepVid.com

Download Videos via Browser Extensions / Plugins Video DownloadHelper (Firefox)

•  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

Video DownloadHelper (Firefox)

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

YTD Video Downloader Example • YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKq1LuzS1f8

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

Extract audio file from QuickTime Player 7 • YouTube URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO4-QwtFtp4

Professional Transcriptionists Medical transcribers

•  Price: $.12-15 per line •  Send video/audio files via Skype •  Turnaround: 24-72 hours depending on length and priority

MEDI-TRAN Invoice March 2013 # Document Custom Lines Rate Amount

1 Oprah_20th _Anniversary_AIDS_Clip-True_Transcipt.doc 127.81 0.12 15.34

2 Cynthia_Clip-True_Transcript.doc 23.81 0.12 2.86

3 Cynthia_Film-True_Transcript.doc 28.04 0.12 3.36

4 Cynthia_QuickTime-True_Transcript.doc 21.47 0.12 2.58

5 Dentist_Negotiation.doc 32.98 0.12 3.96

6 Murphy_Brown_Negotiation-True_Transcipt.doc 154.26 0.12 18.51

7 Miss_Representation-Official_Trailer-True_Transcript.doc 43.1 0.12 5.17

8 STATS_250-Lecture_02-21-13.doc 572.81 0.12 68.74

9 STATS_250-Lecture_02-26-13.doc 818.15 0.12 98.18

10 STATS_250-Lecture_02-28-13.doc 735.92 0.12 88.31

Subtotal: 5665.85 679.91

Total: 679.91

Online Captioning Services • Automatic Sync Technologies

•  http://www.automaticsync.com/captionsync/

Automatic Sync Technologies • Turnaround: 72 hours (usually sooner) •  $159/hour ($2.65/min) for transcript + caption (SRT) file

Online Captioning Services • 3PlayMedia: http://www.3playmedia.com/ • Turnaround: 4 business days

•  $150/hour ($2.50/min) •  transcript + subtitle/caption file (SRT file)

Do-It-Yourself Online Transcription Amara (Universal Subtitles) – http://www.amara.org

•  Follow the steps / tutorial videos to transcribe and time code video

Dictation (App) Dictation (Google Chrome App) – http://ctrlq.org/dictation/

•  Need to have a microphone installed on computer

Save Transcripts with UTF-8 Encoding • Save all transcript files as Plain Text Document (TXT) files

•  Read text as: Unicode (UTF-8)

Step 3: Generate a SubRip (.SRT file)

Generating SRT Files Using Amara • When captioning is complete…

• Click on ‘English’ • Click on ‘Download Subtitles’

• SRT file will be downloaded to computer • Save to Desktop or file folder

Download SRT file from Amara

CaptionSync & 3PlayMedia SubRip Files

CaptionSync 3PlayMedia Captioning Files

$69/hour Transcription Alignment

$1.25/min - $75/hour

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

Creating [SDH] Video in iSubtitle • YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUpCAbXyWMM

Creating [CC] Video in MacCaption • YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIE2bWQst00

What she’s really saying…

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Step 5: Where to Play This Video? • Course/Learning Management Software

• Course Tools (CTools), Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Moodle, etc. •  Videos can be uploaded to site •  Most videos are less than 50MB

•  Flash Drive / CD

•  Give hard copy to professor / student

• Be sure to explain how to view captions/subtitles in QuickTime Player J

Five Basic Steps 1.  Download the video 2.  Create a transcript 3.  Generate a SubRip (.SRT) subtitle file 4.  Add the SRT file to the video 5.  Playback the video with captions

Questions?

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