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What it takes to put on Subtitles and Captions

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Here's a quick synopsis of what it takes to get decent subtitles and captions on a video:

  1. Transcribe the video
  2. Import text file to CPC
  3. Format each caption (CPC does an initial 'dirty' format.)
  4. Time each caption
  5. Proof / fix
  6. Proof again
  7. Export Subtitles
  8. Build DVD w/ Subtitles for proofreader
  9. Correct problems from proofreader
  10. Export Subtitles again
  11. SaveAs another file for Captions
  12. Export Caption data
  13. 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!

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