[Athen] Help w\ Captioning

[Sean J Keegan]

 > can you use the YouTube caption software
 > to add captions and then bring that into
 > another software program?

The short answer is Yes.  If you have a transcript of the video, one 
solution would be to upload the transcript and let YouTube perform the 
auto-timing function to generate a time-stamped file.  You can then 
download that time-stamped file.

The time-stamped file from YouTube (using the auto-timing function) will 
be a "SBV" file.  The recent version of MovCaptioner will allow you to 
import a SBV file where you can make changes to the timing, etc. 
MovCaptioner is just a captioning application for the Mac platform ($40, 
but has free trial period).  You can import a SBV file and then export a 
SRT file - Todd S. mentioned this workflow in a previous e-mail. 
MovCaptioner supports *a lot* of different file formats to import and 
export.

If you already have a captioning application that supports the SRT 
format (but not SBV), then you can use this Website to convert YouTube's 
SBV to the SRT format -
http://www.gidsgoldberg.com/sbv_docs_converter.shtml .  Then you can 
make any changes, export a SRT file from your captioning application, 
and upload back to the YouTube presentation.


Take care,
Sean
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