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Re: Film (movie) captions

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Nov 3, 2015 12:58PM

> I'm wondering if feature films and film excerpts are treated any differently.

To my knowledge WCAG does not discriminate between features and clips or excerpts -- they all must provide synchronized captions and audio descriptions under Level AA. Other US laws such as CVAA have different requirements for clips -- for example clips are now required to be captioned but only when posted by the video owner.

> What would the recommendation be for a feature film, or excerpt of a feature film. Would one use the script as the transcript if available? Should a script not exists are descriptive captions sufficient?

Many tools such as YouTube allow you to upload a transcript or script as the basis for creating captions. This seems like a good place to start that could save time.

> Another question with regards to film is the use of closed captioning and subtitles, can these coexist in the caption file?

My understanding is that you would have separate tracks/WebVTT files, one or more for captions in different languages, and others for subtitles.

Jonathan

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