ProudGeek Reviews of some captioning methods
- Captioning Your Videos #1: Windows Movie Maker (Software)
- JumpCut
- Captioning Your Videos #2: Jumpcut (online)
- Captioning Your Videos #3: Subtitle Workshop (Software)
- Captioning Your Videos #4: Overstream (Online)
- Captioning Your Videos #7: OpenCaptions.com (Online)
Other Captioning Options:
- BubblePly (Online)
- Veotag (Online)
- TubeCaption (Online)
- Subtitle Horse (Online)
- Gnome Subtitles (Linux Software)
- Capscribe (Mac Software)
- MagPie (Win95/98 Software)
And Caption Keeper, for converting TV Closed caption data into webstreaming formats.
If there is interest in more in-depth review or instruction in these, please comment.
CaptionsOn
Thanks! I’ll definitley used thise resources.
Lance
Just wanted to mention that CapScribe can export caption files that can be imported into YouTube. See the title=”CapScribe example”>sample clip on YouTube or go to http://www.capscribe.ca for more information.
I also forgot to mention MagPie, http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/magpie1.html#magpiedownload
But apparently it’s not currently under development? The system requirements are Win 95/98, and it does not work on Vista.
MovCaptioner from Synchrimedia has a neat approach to captioning:
It’s Mac-only.
Accessify has a really cool quick caption maker, if you already have a transcript.
http://accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessibility-tools/easy-youtube-caption-creator/
It outputs captions in a .sub like format that is accepted by youtube, but doesn’t quite work in subtitle workshop for “finishing work”.
Fixing Captions (Adjusting time in bulk, etc.
http://submerge.delarue-berlin.de/
There’s a freeware tool called CCExtractor that does essentially the same thing as CaptionKeeper; it grabs captions from a DVD or TiVo recording and exports them in the .srt format that YouTube can use (which in turn can be converted to other formats using some of the other tools).