Captioning Resources

• A Guide for Captioning Video
• 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.
• Getting Started with MSU Closed Captioning Crowd Sourcing.

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.