[games_access] Intro to CC video

[AudioGames.net]

Depends on the type of captions and the end product (film, web, game) and 
computer platform of course (but let's assume PC for now and web-based 
movies).

Burned captions are easily to do with Windows Movie Maker. Simply type text 
and add and then render the movie. For some time MagPIE was a bit of a 
standard for adding external caption files (SMIL, SRT, SUB) to online movies 
like .RM and .WMV.  However, that program is quite old and buggy. So at 
Accessibility we use Subtitle Workshop, which is a freeware application: 
http://www.urusoft.net/download.php?lang=1&id=sw . Still, 
subtitling/captioning for the web is a hassle, with all them browsers, 
plugins, file formats, etc. The easiest for us is simply a .WMV with a SMIL 
file.

Greets,

Richard


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reid Kimball" <rkimball at gmail.com>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [games_access] Intro to CC video


> anyone want to recommend a good program to add captions?
>
> On 11/17/06, AudioGames.net <richard at audiogames.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have way too little time on my hands to participate fully, I just 
>> wanted
>> to mention that using Burned Captions it is possible to add captions to
>> movies on YouTube. But yeah, the fact that you simply can't add a 
>> textfile
>> subtitle to YouTube sucks.
>>
>> Greets,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Barrie Ellis" <barrie.ellis at oneswitch.org.uk>
>> To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
>> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: [games_access] Intro to CC video
>>
>>
>> >I thought your video very clearly explained verbally what CC means to
>> >games.
>> > Okay YouTube doesn't support subtitles, maybe it would be nice to have 
>> > a
>> > transcript on-line?
>> >
>> > Re. getting programmers support - might be worth posting on the
>> > www.retroremakes.org forums asking for help. There's a huge amount of 
>> > good
>> > will there it seems, and a lot of programming talent. Worth a go. Maybe
>> > aim
>> > for the Work In Progress area, Mini Competition/Challenges area and the
>> > Accessibility area.
>> >
>> > Good luck, fella!
>> >
>> > Barrie
>> > www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Reid Kimball" <rkimball at gmail.com>
>> > To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
>> > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:33 AM
>> > Subject: [games_access] Intro to CC video
>> >
>> >
>> >>I made an intro to closed captioning for games video and ran through
>> >> Quake4[CC] to demonstrate it.
>> >>
>> >> http://gamescc.rbkdesign.com/
>> >>
>> >> Feel free to spread this around to your co-workers who need to be
>> >> enlightened to great glory of CC, :)
>> >>
>> >> -Reid
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