e-captioning
The e-Captioning Workflow
We do it all
1. upload a small proxy video file
2. Caption Depot transcribes (unless you provide the transcript) & creates caption/subtitle files for your video file
3. a time-stamped caption/subtitle file will be emailed to you and you will embed the captions to your video yourself.
4. or, Caption Depot will embed the captions/subtitles to your video.
e-Captioning can be used for virtually all captioning tasks. This includes HD/SD tape, DVD, all web formats & Blu-ray subtitles.
What You Will Need
The first thing you need in order to get something closed captioned is a transcript. There are several ways to create one, and Caption Depot also offers a transcription service. Check rates for details. You will also need a proxy movie – a small video such as Quicktime (H.264 320×240) is sufficient to make caption files. Check proxy_video for details. Once Caption Depot has both these items, we can start the closed captioning process.
What You Get From us
After the captioning process is complete, we will email you a small .zip file that, when unzipped, will be a file needed for your specific workflow. see below which fits your workflow.
Other Options
Repurposing Captions
It is also possible for Caption Depot to extract closed captions from video and repurpose them by encoding them to another format.
Physical Media
While e-Captioning allows you to keep quality control in-house and makes it unnecessary to mail tapes, we understand this may not work for everyone. If it suits your workflow we can also work with tapes you send us and then mail you back a new tape with closed captions. We can do this with every format from DVD to BetaSP.