What it takes to put on Subtitles and Captions
Wednesday, May 06, 2009Here's a quick synopsis of what it takes to get decent subtitles and captions on a video:
- Transcribe the video
- Import text file to CPC
- Format each caption (CPC does an initial 'dirty' format.)
- Time each caption
- Proof / fix
- Proof again
- Export Subtitles
- Build DVD w/ Subtitles for proofreader
- Correct problems from proofreader
- Export Subtitles again
- SaveAs another file for Captions
- Export Caption data
- Import them into Scenarist for final DVD Authoring
It is a straight-forward process, just takes a while if it's an hour long message with lots of speaking. This video I'm finishing up has about 3 hours total of video content, or 3,053 subtitles!