Micah Orloff and Donna EyestoneOctober 19, 2010

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Captioning Video the Do-It-Yourself Way

• Maximize your CCC Confer window.• Phone audio will be in presenter-only mode.• Ask questions and make comments using the chat window.

Housekeeping

Adjusting Audio

1) If you’re listening on your computer, adjust your volume using the speaker slider.

2) If you’re listening over the phone, click on phone headset.

Do not listen on both computer and phone.

Saving Files & Open/close Captions

1. Save chat window with floppy disc icon2. Open/close captioning window with CC icon

Emoticons and Polling

1) Raise hand and Emoticons 2) Polling options

Micah Orloff and Donna Eyestone

Captioning Video the Do-It-Yourself Way

Why Caption?

Captioning in Education is the law

Allows access to your materials for both those with hearing disabilities, but improves usability for everyone

Hearing students might be accessing your content in a place that makes listening impossible

Agenda

Captioning YouTube videos Captioning with QuickTime Pro ($30) Dragon Naturally Speaking with

Camtasia

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YouTube

We have a tutorial on our website! http://www.onefortraining.org/node/389

Important:• Make sure your transcript is .txt format• Upload video first – let it encode – then

upload transcript• YouTube tries to time text to your audio

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Let’s see it in action!

Why Use QuickTime?

Works cross-platformIs an easy-to-use $30 applicationSwiss Army knife of multimedia

converts most any media typescompresses audio/videoSimple audio/video recorder and editor

You probably already have it and so do your students!

Player comes with an iTunes downloadBuy registration key from Apple to unlock the Pro featuresYou need QuickTime Pro to do everything I’m showing today

http://www.apple.com/quicktime

Generate Text Transcript

• Start creating your audio from a script - which then can be your transcript!

• Set QuickTime Pro to play at half-speed and type along with audio/video.

• Use Dragon Naturally Speaking (PC only).

• Use the DECT grant• Consult with your Disabled Students

Program for support.

Format Transcript for Captions

Slice your text into “chunks” as you want them to appear on screen.

Save as a Text-only document.

Open your text-only document in QuickTime Pro

Your sentences each appear as a frame in a “text track” QuickTime movie.

Export transcript movie from QuickTime Pro

Choose Text to Text and with Descriptors

Open the exported text file in TextEdit or WordPad

Edit your Descriptors

Listen to your audio and enter timing info before each sentence

Customize the Text Track header

Save as Text-Only

Open text-only file in QuickTime Pro

Formatted per my header specs.and timed to my audio file, but still not “joined” with my audio.

Open both movies

Add together

Select All then Copy

Click audio movie thenAdd to Selection and Scale

Synchronized Captions with Audio!

Let’s see it in action!

Donna Eyestonedeyestone@mac.com

Q&A

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Captioning Video the Do-It-Yourself Way