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 [email protected]
Q&A
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Captioning Video the Do-It-Yourself Way