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From: L Snider
Date: May 8, 2015 1:09PM

Hi Andrew,

Thanks, that information was very useful. I hadn't explored the separate
file versus embedding yet in Premiere. I also now need to play with
Primetime as well, thanks.

So I guess the next question I would ask is what do the majority of people
do in this case? Open Captions? Closed Captions? Would the FCC/CVAA rules
be the ones to go with?

Cheers

Lisa

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> To clarify on the point of what Adobe Premiere can do, you certainly could
> create "burned in" captions in Premiere just as you can with an video
> editor, but as Jon says there is a lost opportunity there for caption
> display modification/customization.
>
> Premiere allows authors to import caption files, edit the caption data
> (which is shown on the video during editing at the editor's preference),
> and export the captions either as a separate file or (for quicktime) with
> the data embedded in the video asset. Another Adobe tool (Primetime) will
> allow you to embed caption data and stream the video files to a variety of
> devices and it embeds the data correctly for a variety of platform
> environments and allows the end user to modify the display appearance of
> the captions in the way that is required by the FCC/CVAA rules.
>
> https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/closed-captioning.html
>
> AWK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Avila
> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 12:06 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED> ; WebAIM Discussion List; L Snider
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Caption Question
>
> > I'm a big fan of open captions
>
> One challenge with open captions is that users cannot change the visual
> appearance of the captions -- this can be a challenge for people who have a
> visual impairment in addition to being deaf or hard of hearing. Also on
> smaller devices users may need to increase the size of the captions.
> There is another technique to encapsulate closed captions into the media
> file -- that way the captions are included in a single file -- although
> this technique may be more limited though in it's support for different
> platforms and players.
>
> Jonathan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Sam Cartsos
> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 11:37 AM
> To: L Snider; WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Caption Question
>
> I'm a big fan of open captions. I've never used Adobe's products for this,
> but anything that makes the process simpler is worth exploring. In the
> past, I've batched images of the text data out of Photoshop into a Final
> Cut timeline.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> On 5/7/2015 3:32 PM, L Snider wrote:
> > Hi Sam,
> >
> > Thanks so much, great information. I am now researching players and
> > captioning, interesting stuff there.
> >
> > I also found out (for those that have to do this as well) that one can
> > use the original files and create captions in Adobe Encore and
> > Premiere Pro. This is useful for 'burning in' the captioning.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Lisa
> >
> > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Sam Cartsos < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Lisa,
> > Assuming you're burning this CD as a data disk, you'll want to
> > place your media and caption files in the same directory, and
> > ensure that they have the same filename. You can include more than
> > one caption file to accommodate different players - SRT and SMI
> > files might be a good choice. When the user opens the media file
> > in their default or preferred player, and assuming they've enabled
> > caption/subtitle playback in their player, the captions will show.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sam
> >
> >
> > On 5/6/2015 11:35 AM, L Snider wrote:
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I am captioning a video for a webpage. No problem there,
> > because the player
> > uses WebVTT and it reads the captions from that file.
> >
> > However, I now have to put this video on a CD. I haven't
> > worked with video
> > on CD before. I can't use my lovely player and WebVTT
> > file...However, I can
> > make the captioning file in another format (I have access to SRT,
> > SBV,DFXP,SMI, QT, RT, STL, SUB, SMPTE-TT and SCC). How is the
> > best way to
> > do this without having to do things manually? Is there an
> > automated way of
> > getting the captions into the video?
> >
> > I have access to Adobe software, and I think I can do this
> > through Media
> > Encoder but am working on that now...
> >
> > If anyone has any suggestions/advice/etc, please let me know!
> >
> > Thanks so much.
> >
> > Lisa
> >
> >
> >
>
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