Subtitling for Web

[Richard Keating]

The text tool will do the trick.

Richard Keating
http://www.screenlight.tv

[Emma Degraz]

I’m trying to find an automated way to do it since the videos will be very long and doing one title at a time will take forever. Also I just found out that these videos will only be on the web so the subtitles can be burned permanently onto the video image.

[Mark Suszko]

YouTube is now doing captioning automatically: don’t ask me how.

[Mark Suszko]

What we do currently is, hire a transcriptionist to transcribe the audio live thru a phone line connection. A second phone line feeds her keystrokes back to us, thru a patch bay, into a Closed-Captioning encoder machine, then onto a new recording master. Everything is real-time, analog, and fairly accurate, but some typos will creep in. Fixing those on the CC master is a pain.

The way I expect I will do it for a project like this in the future is to first train voice recognition software to my own voice for high accuracy. Then I would play the master timeline and repeat everything that is said thru a headphone boom mic in my own voice, into the voice recognition program. This generates a reliable text file I can copy/paste in chunks into a titling track, in DVD Studio Pro or any titling tool in FCP.

[Martin Curtis]

Nearly there: MovCaptioner

MovCaptioner keeps repeating a segment of the movie until you are done typing what you hear. Just hit the Return key and it will save your caption and automatically advance to the next few seconds of the movie, allowing you to zip through your captioning tasks in no time flat. And, if you use MacSpeech Dictate, you can just speak the captions and it will type them for you right into the MovCaptioner interface, the absolute easiest way to create captions for your videos.

I haven’t used it with MacSpeech Dictate, and my experience with MovCationer itself is minimal, but it’s worth a look.