#video captioning

[quasieli]

Now more than ever, online content needs to be accessible. That means captioned videos, images described, content trigger tagged, etc. If you’re truly trying to spread important information, information that could possibly be life saving, then it needs to be accessible to everyone. Leaving out disabled people is not an option, they should be able to receive all the same information as everyone else and use it to help the cause and/or protect themselves. 

If you are unsure about how to better make your information accessible to all, the Web Accessibility Initiative, which you can find here, provides a host of introductory how tos for making web content accessible, and is available in over 20 languages.

[tsfennec]

PSA for Teachers

Probably not the best place to get this to people who actually need to hear it, but it’s what I’ve got, so. As someone who’s done considerable work in video captioning, much of it in educational contexts, some advice for people who may be needing to teach long distance now.

- SPEAK MORE SLOWLY. Yes, really. No, more slowly than that. This is not a words-per-minute contest and you are making me cry. I know there’s a lot to fit in, but better to make a few points well and memorably than race through and have no one catch half of it. People are sometimes even more prone to this when they can’t see their audience.

- Look up not just how to use whatever microphone you’re using, but how to use microphones in general properly. Placement and how you speak into it can make a BIG difference in audio quality.

- Speaking of which, if at all possible, do use a decent microphone. Doesn’t have to be expensive, just one that works. I know many people have been thrust into this underprepared, but if your audio has a lot of static or sounds like you’re underwater, it’s going to be very difficult for anyone to process what you’re saying.

- If more than one person is speaking (whether co-teaching or Q&A) leave extra space to ensure that you’re not interrupting/speaking over each other. Again, clarity is important and this is NOT like a casual in-person conversation. There’s often some lag in streaming.

- Please speak up and don’t mumble. It’s really, really important that you articulate clearly. This goes for the teaching in general, but also if you lose your place for a moment or are trying to figure out how to do something. A few seconds of silence is much better than trying to decipher whether there was anything important/coherent in your muttering to yourself.

- SPEAK MORE SLOWLY.

 ...there’s more I’m not thinking of now, but those are some key ones.

[fourteen--steps]

Hey is there anyone who regularly uses video captions/does captioning who would be willing to answer a couple of questions? I’m learning how to caption and know most of the basics but have a couple things about readability and format to ask (what do you do if someone is reading off something? Quotation marks? What if it’s a long quote? Do you lose track of that? Do I need to put some kind of end quote marker?) but “how to caption videos” on google just gets me tons of links to what buttons to click to open the editors which isn’t what I need. 

[etakeh]

I'm sad that they didn't catch it.

[vineheartvariety]

Video Editing Rant

I'm putting this here 'cause a) it feels appropriate and b) tumblr deleted my personal blog for no reason so... that's fun, but here we are. Besides, I meant to use this blog for more stuff related to content creation, so this is tangentially related, right? Anyways,

I'm currently trying to edit a few videos for a side project and it's literally not all that hard. Minimal edits. It's literally just me presenting a workshop. One video recording, one audio recording. That's all. The hardest bit is me syncing up the audio between the two.

So I finished one of two videos and uploaded them (it's private and for a club, so no, they're not going up on my channel --that's it's own thing), but my overly concerned and perfectionist self decided that, ah yes, having people just watch the video on it's own is not enough, you need \*captions* that *you type*. Which, also, really isn't too hard (as I said, it's me presenting something, so I'm the primary speaker for like, 90% of the video), but it's just taking me so longgg. This video is already like, almost three months later than I wanted, but finishing the captions has felt like such a chore.

Motivation just sucks at the moment, and once I get a drive to do this sort of stuff, I just power through and then, the moment is gone just as fast and I don't want to do it anymore.

Anyways, that's a tidbit on how I function.

And part of why videos are taking so long to... *exist*.

But hopefully things will change soon enough.

[jamalir]

GitHub - md-mohaiminul/VideoRecap

GitHub - md-mohaiminul/VideoRecap

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[captioningservicesblog]

Professional Video Captioning Services for Clear and Inclusive Content

Using the best video captioning is all about giving yourself the chance to engage different audiences that may understand completely different languages from the one that you use.

https://avadtaubman.livepositively.com/enabling-diverse-audiences-for-content-with-video-captioning/

[captioningservicesblog]

Accurate video captioning services that provide high value. It implies that selecting a provider with reliable and accurate captions, compliance with accessibility standards, and customization options are crucial to inclusive and effective content creation.