[Amanda Duffield]

Thank you so much. Sorry to sound obtuse but i don’t know skewewhere to get that? Do i download it?
Thanks again

[Amanda Duffield]

Thanks.

[Amanda Duffield]

Thanks.
Maybe I’m using the wrong terminology, maybe ‘convert’ is the wrong word.
I have a 1.5 hour NTSC DVD (well, 9 of them).
They do have copy-protection however I have permission from the copyright owner to copy for the purposes of captioning.

I have done the captions, using a less-than-ideal looking mp4 that I managed to make, howeever whenever the presenter moves from side to side, it looks weird,almost makes you dizzy. the mp4 comes from handbrake.

I’ve made the capitons in dvd architect pro. I thought, by the time I’d finished captioning, I would have figured out how to get the DVD into a viewable form. The reason I’m copying/converting it is because I was going to re-burn the title with the captions .

I’m happy to give the original DVD back to the owner (a teacher) along with ‘sidecar’ captions, however I’ve never done ‘side-car’ as such before. I don’t understand how the ‘caption’ file (if exported as a separate entity) knows where all the chapters are. So if they’re sidecar and the teacher fast forwards to another chapter, do the subs move to the right spot?

If the answer is ‘only if you fully remake the dvd in architect, complete with chapters, and then caption each chapter’, then I’m still ‘copying for the purposes of captioning’. I haven’t avoided the ‘copy’ process as far as I can tell.

But happy to be proved wrong.

Thanks for your help.

[Amanda Duffield]

Yes, I’m referring to vasst.
I thought so, but wanted to double check.
I think I prefer to put the line breaks where I want them, in the original transcript.
thanks for you rreply.
I keep requesting your product but they keep saying no.
fingers crossed!

[Amanda Duffield]

Can I revisit this question re transcription.

I’ve read all the posts – I have svp13.
I’m trying to convince my employer to buy vasst caption assistant.

I had no idea there were programs that ‘synced’ the text phrases to the audio, even if it was a rough sync, that would still be fantastic for me.
Can I confirm I’m understanding this correctly?

At the moment I
1. use machine transcription directly from an audio file (I render a high quality mp3 and use Dragon Naturally Speaking)
2. edit and make the line lengths the way I want them for importing to DVD architect pro or Vegas.
3. do the timing in one of those.
4. then, depending on what I want, I may export captions so that handbrake can burn them in, or burn them in via titles @ text using Vegas, or burn a dvd with closed captions via dvd architect.

I know vasst will import the text and choose the line breaks itself. This is not using any kind of sound/sync is it? I presume it’s using some kind of english rules to find where to break mid-sentence?

Anyway, is there a quicker step here? Maybe after I’ve edited the transcript, can some program to a quick rough sync and then I edit that?

Where is the best place to get advice/training on the best workflow for a one-person post-production captioning job? I’m currently trial-ing Caption Maker – does that import using some kind of sound/sync option? I can’t tell from the trial version.

thanks.

[Amanda Duffield]

I have been trying to do exactly this all day today but didn’t understand enough about the process.
Now that I’ve seen this post (I’m home now) I’ll try tomorrow.

Can I just confirm, I’m doing this at the ‘track’ level, not individually on each ‘generated media’ or whatever each ‘chunk’ of audio is called.

I also have various audio pieces, They are all my voice but some are recorded on different days and I’ve obviously got the microphone in different positions whilst recording plus using my voice either louder and softer.

I couldn’t get ‘arm to record’ to work so recorded in audacity and imported to Vegas.

It’s really ruining the clip with my voice levels going up and down depending on what day I did the recording.
I tried ‘wavehammer’ but thinking now that was wrong!
I tried turning volume down on invidivual audio but it didn’t seem to help.
It’s going to be sent all around the workplace so I really need the audio to sound more professional. It’s not something I can re-narrate.

Are there ‘standard’ settings I should use for a single speaker with no background noise? If so, could I just fill them out on the FX screen (pictured above) and all tracks will revert to that?

Thanks,

[Amanda Duffield]

Actually, just to fill you in on that. It was too slow to hear the speech correctly, but worth the try !

[Amanda Duffield]

Aha! I have been having a similar issue, am following progress.

[Amanda Duffield]

Yes! Thank you.

I still have the problem whereby the closed captions don’t refresh in the preview screen. So I see the first one, and then after that I don’t see the others unless I stop the playback exactly at the next caption, the start the playback again. Then I see the one it’s on, but it doesn’t refresh to the next one when the cursor moves past it.

Do you know how I fix that?

Thanks so much for you help.

[Amanda Duffield]

I thought it was an upgrade.
So all the emails I keep getting about a cheaper price, they are a totally standalone new product? I was under the impression my svp13 would stop working.
Worth it if I have the option of both.