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CAPTIONING ONLINE MEDIA An introductory guide for colleges and universities Mary Reilly Captioned Media Specialist Services for Students with Disabilities University of Michigan [email protected] 734.763.3035

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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

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YouTube Automatic Captions

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

no classes in Nepal and nothing else that’s more inflation index is better than anyone

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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

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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.

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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

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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/

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

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KeepVid.com

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

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

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Video DownloadHelper (Firefox)

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

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

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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

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Extract audio file from QuickTime Player 7 • YouTube URL:

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

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Professional Transcriptionists Medical transcribers

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

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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

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Online Captioning Services • Automatic Sync Technologies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

•  Need to have a microphone installed on computer

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

•  Read text as: Unicode (UTF-8)

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Step 3: Generate a SubRip (.SRT file)

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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

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Download SRT file from Amara

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CaptionSync & 3PlayMedia SubRip Files

CaptionSync 3PlayMedia Captioning Files

$69/hour Transcription Alignment

$1.25/min - $75/hour

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

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

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

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What she’s really saying…

no color, nothing, no sexual orientation that makes us better than anyone else.

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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

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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

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Questions?

Mary Reilly Captioned Media Specialist Services for Students with Disabilities University of Michigan [email protected] 734.763.3035