[Athen] Cantasia: close capturing capabilities

Ken Petri petri.1 at osu.edu
Tue Jan 19 07:28:46 PST 2010


Hi Kenneth,

Camtasia recordings are easy to caption. The process: Dump your transcript
in the captioning window. Play back the recording. Select the chunk of
caption as you hear it played back. Export the video.

Timings are set and a captions are added to the bottom of the output. If I
remember correctly, past versions captions could not be turned off. This may
have changed and now they may be truly "closed" captions, but it is worth
testing to see if this is the case.

Note that the Camtasia embedded player is not fully screen reader
accessible---better than it used to be but not all the way there. Also,
there is no way to import timed text or export it from Camtasia. All timing
and set up must be done within the Camtasia environment, you cannot edit
captions after the fact without re-exporting the movie.

Best,
ken
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Kenneth Elkind <Kenneth.Elkind at umb.edu>wrote:


> I had a professor who is using Cantasia by TechSmith for one of her

> courses. Does anybody have any experience in creating close capturing in

> the creation of online videos using Cantasia?

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