9 out of the top 10 movies this weekend were available somewhere in the US with captions.
0 out of the top 10 movies this weekend had a trailer or tv commercial in the US with captions provided by the studio, to my knowledge.
9 out of the top 10 movies this weekend had a trailer with captions, provided by Captionfish.com and Captionwire.com.
Top Ten Movies at the Box Office from FilmJabber.com:
1 Underworld Awakening
$25.4 million
2 Red Tails
$19.1 million
3 Contraband
$12.2 million
4 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
$10.5 million
5 Haywire
$9.0 million
6 Beauty and the Beast 3D
$8.6 million
7 Joyful Noise
$6.1 million
8 Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
$5.5 million
9 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
$4.8 million
10 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
$3.8 million
View Captioned Current and Upcoming Trailers at http://www.captionfish.com/movies/upcoming/captioned
You may also be interested in a captioned review of this Underworld Awakening, this week’s box office leader, by the Blind Film Critic.
These karaoke subtitles were created by a youtube user with Aegisub, and a great deal of patience!
I found a video converter that I’m pretty impressed with.
I have been using Handbrake, VLC, and odd assortments of command line ffmpeg to convert videos.
In the process of binging other methods, I found Freemake a (free) video converter which just hit 3.0, and added the ability to create HTML5 video. And HTML5 video with burned in subtitles that almost works!
(I can view the video on DroidX, iPhone, Chrome, and IE. For some reason Firefox is having trouble. VLC can read the ogv file.)
Simple User Interface
Summary: It did what I needed. Soft subtitles* would be nicer – but the fact that it handles them at all is cool.
* “Soft” subtitles, or soft subs, are subtitles applied at playback time from a subtitle datafile, either muxed directly into the video file (.mkv, .ogm, etc.), or in a separate file (.ssa, .srt, etc.).
(citation from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fansub)
CCAC
DotSub
