Captioning Resources

• A Guide for Captioning Video
• As MSU IT returns to more normal operations, the COVID-19 MSU Crowd Sourcing Captioning project has ended taking captioning requests and will be closed out completely on December 31, 2021. This program was a great way to employ students while providing additional accessibility resources during a time when the university was solely focused on remote learning. We have shifted back to our original order process for requesting captions.
• You can order captions for media content you own that is hosted in MediaSpace. You will need an account number to complete this order, and your captions will be added to your content automatically once they are complete.

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.