Thanks to Leanne’s generous share, I now know about VDRDC’s video description tutorials. I have not used them, but Leanne says they are solid and help her and her colleagues prepare to caption over 300 videos for a project.
Posts with the captioning tag
Resource: DIY Media Captioning from CCAC
Collectively developed guide to captioning DIY (Do It Yourself) not involving Steno or Voice Writing. Via CCAC email list
Captioning & Clones: Research and Theory
A few resources that I might tie in to some discussion on either captions or clones. Wikidpedia’s Simulacrum definition(s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacrum#cite_note-10 Gender Matters discussion of Queer Theory http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/gender/raymond/queertheory.html
Resource: Sample captioning workflow
Michael Lockrey shared his captioning workflow on the CCAC mailing list and on Twitter. He’s encouraged people to share it and spread it widely. It’s a useful resource, and it could help people who want to get started or organize their flow. If you don’t know about CCAC, it is the Collaborative for Communication Access […]
Resource: DIYCaptions
Just learned of a new potential resource for captioning, DIYCaptions. It appears focused on helping improve the automatic captions on YouTube videos. I have not reviewed or tested these out, but they look like they are worth investigating.
Literacy Narratives for Captioning: Resources on Literacy Narratives
Since I regard captioning as a form of literacy, I am interested in individuals’ captioning literacy narratives. I feel like this will fall under what Sean Zdenek has described as “Caption Studies” in his book Reading Sounds. I want to bookmark a couple of sites that help explain and give context for literacy narratives. Briefly, […]