One reason I like the strategy described below is that you will have a “master file” that can be easily reformatted to work with most everything that will be available for the foreseeable the future. Keep reading at your own peril.Ĭaveat 2: Like everything on the web, things keep changing. If anyone wants to try “closed captioning” for web video, here’s what I recommend, with lots of caveats.Ĭaveat 1: Captions are like sausage: if you like them, you’re better off not knowing how they’re made. Nice work! Open captions like the ones you made in Windows Movie Maker have their merits because they are a permanent part of the video and for now, open captions are the only way to get captions on YouTube (unless you go to third party sites like, ,, etc.), but they can get a little blurry when the video gets compressed.
But that’s par for the course for politicians, eh? You can also modify how the title appears onto the screen (altho I wished I could have it appear a bit lower on the screen), as well as how it looks - including its font, color, size, and transparency.Ī left-hand thumb up for the ease of customizing these captions, and a right-hand thumb down due to having to press several buttons for each line of captions.Īs an example, I used a video of my daughter announcing her “campaign” for President. In its favor, it was easy to move a line of caption back and fro on the movie time-line, and stretch or shorten the period each caption would appear. Instead, I had to click on the “Title and Credits” feature (using the “Subtitles” transition) and then on the “Title on the selected clip” link each time I wanted to add a line of captions. There is no actual “captioning” function. Windows Movie Maker ( XP or Vista version): This is a free, downloadable computer program made by Microsoft for PC computers. Without further ado, here’s the first resource: If you know of any other free program or web service that you use to caption videos, please let me know in the comments and I’ll test ’em out as well.
Over time, I plan on doing a series of posts covering some of these free resources - computer programs as well as Internet web services - where you can add captions. Sad, because there are so many resources - FREE ones - out there where one can caption these videos. All those news clips on CNN and other media websites, many amateur and professional videos on YouTube and Google Video, many many vlogs (whether hearing or deaf), lots of movies available for instant watching via Netflix and its ilk, etc. Lots and lots of videos on the web out there, and a TINY fraction of them are captioned.
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