<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://130/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">> I’m thinking about creating an extension to my alt format area </span><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">> that would caption short department made videos. I am looking at </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">> Movie Captioner software. Has anyone used this?</span></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I have used Movie Captioner a number of times and it works well. It can be a bit finicky at times and it is important to save on a regular basis as I have had some projects lost, but it can import and export nearly any format that you would need to work with in a captioning environment.</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">One thing that I have found that works a bit better with Movie Captioner is to create a text transcript separately and then import the text into the application. Movie Captioner can then assist in breaking up the captions into the appropriate caption segments.</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Something to be cautious about when setting up a captioning service on a campus - it is becoming so much easier to create a video and post it to a website that nearly anyone can do it. Unfortunately, captioning still has some technical requirements depending on the hosting service (Vimeo vs. YouTube), website media player, mobile device support, etc., that I have been finding more and more individuals who want me to "take care of everything" when I am handed a video to be captioned. While setting expectations early in the process has helped the conversations, it is a balancing act to providing support and yet limiting how much of the project I am expected to manage for the requestor.</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Good luck!</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Take care,</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Sean</span></font></div></body></html>