video captioning made easy
DESCRIPTION
By Matt Ewens, Information Officer, Jisc RSC South WestTRANSCRIPT
Go to View > Header & Footer to edit April 11, 2023 | slide 1RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning
Video captioning made easy
Matt Ewens, Information Officer
www.jisc.ac.uk/rsc
Go to View > Header & Footer to edit April 11, 2023 | slide 2
Why should you caption videos?The most obvious reason is to provide people with hearing difficulties/disabilities the ability to engage with the video content, otherwise that video won’t be much use to them.
In 2010 Google worked with YouTube to embed their automatic translation software, to provide automatic captioning on YouTube videos, great!
But this is not entirely accurate!
Take a look at a video featuring Ken Robinson from a TED talk recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX78iKhInsc
Go to View > Header & Footer to edit April 11, 2023 | slide 3
But is captioning just to help people with hearing issues to engage with the video content?
No, as Wyant explains: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IYMhNHuP2Zk
Go to View > Header & Footer to edit April 11, 2023 | slide 4
So let’s caption a quick videoFor this simple exercise I will be using a video that I have pre-uploaded to YouTube.
1. Upload your video to YouTube
2. Visit the location of the video on YouTube
3. Then you will see a number of icons below the video, you will need to click on the CC icon – 5th icon along
4. This will take you to the captions editor
Go to View > Header & Footer to edit April 11, 2023 | slide 5
So let’s caption a quick video5. Now that you are in the editor, click on ‘Add captions’ (apologise for grey Rudolph the
reindeer-style unfortunate video capture below)
Go to View > Header & Footer to edit April 11, 2023 | slide 6
So let’s caption a quick video6. Within the video transcript box type in the text by listening to the video and typing it
out as in the sequence you hear it. (You can add track names for different transcriptions)
Go to View > Header & Footer to edit April 11, 2023 | slide 7
So let’s caption a quick video7. You can also upload a pre-written transcript, which will populate within the box. When
you are happy, press the ‘Sync’ button and wait for processing.
8. Then you should be able to re-visit the video and play it back with your captions, easy!
Go to View > Header & Footer to edit April 11, 2023 | slide 8
Other forms of captioning There are however numerous online video website for uploading video content and only some of these enable you to caption the videos, So how do you caption them?
You can use a website called Amara: http://www.amara.org/en/
This enables you to add a video from Vimeo for example and caption it using their free tools.
Other ways are to utilise the desktop services depending on what program you used to edit and produce the video, Camtasia has captioning options and most professional video programs can allow you to add a closed captioning data file.
TIP: Go to http://www.youtube.com/account - then Playback and check the box ‘Show automatic captions by speech recognition (when available)’ – this will display the option to view captions automatically.
Go to View > Header & Footer to edit April 11, 2023 | slide 9
Thank you!
01752 587035