The following text is from the Movie Captioner eBook:Ĭaptioning video not only makes video accessible to the deaf and hard-of-hearing, but there are other compelling reasons for it as well. If captions are something you need to do, I recommend you take a close look at MovieCaptioner.Ī 14-day free trial is available, as are volume discounts. While it does not yet natively support CEA-708 format captions, there are work-arounds which support that format and the developer is about to release an update which will support this latest format as well. MovieCaptioner is flexible, capable and supports a wide variety of import formats and an even wider variety of export formats for web and broadcast. I want to especially mention his excellent eBook, which provides a background on closed captioning as well as practical advice on using the program. MovieCaptioner is a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to expensive services and software which creates and adds closed-captions on movies.ĭeveloped by Patrick Besong, whose day job is in Penn State’s Education Technology Services department, its available for either Macintosh and Windows systems, features a straight-forward interface, and offers responsive support from the developer. So, in doing some research, I discovered a very cost-effective alternative: MovieCaptioner, from SynchriMedia. If you are a small production house, spending $6K to create captions for 30-second ads for your local broadcast station is a LOT of money. (Telestream purchased the original company earlier in 2015.) However, while MacCaption has virtually every bell-and-whistle you could want, it’s expensive with a starting price of $1,095 for the web and $6,325 to include broadcast formats. In the past, my knee-jerk reaction was to recommend Telestream’s MacCaption. I’d love to see some training on how to transcribe program audio, import a transcript format into Final Cut X, and generate a file for broadcast, and a file for web/streaming, and for DVD or BluRay, that is CEA-708-compliant.” “Larry, we’re going nuts here, trying to figure out the best ways to handle and create closed-captioned videos in FCPX, without spending six grand to buy MacCaption. One of the most frequent requests I get are variations on this email from Mark Suszko:
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