Captioning Resources

• A Guide for Captioning Video

Available tutorials:

• Hiring a Third Party Captioning Service
• Creating Your Own Captions
• Ordering Machine Captions through Kaltura Mediaspace
• Uploading a Video to Kaltura Mediaspace
• Attaching a Caption File to Kaltura Mediaspace

Below are a few helpful captioning resources provided by Patrick Besong, Multimedia Manager for Penn State's Education Technology Services department. 

• Reading Between the Lines
  • Blog by Synchrimedia where you can learn about a lot of technical issues and tips related to video captioning
• Creative Cow Closed Captioning Forum
  • This is a great place to post questions about anything that has to do with closed captioning. The people who moderate and contribute are quite helpful.
• WebAIM
  • Lots of great information on accessibility, captioning formats, how-to, and best practices.
• 3PlayMedia Captions Format Converter
  • Convert your caption file to one of seven formats.
• Closed Captions and the SCC Closed Caption Format
  • Everything you ever wanted to know and more about the SCC format for creating Line 21 captions.