OFF-LINE CAPTIONING GUIDELINES

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OFF-LINE CAPTIONING

Off-line Captioning
Off-line captioning provides the highest quality caption for videos taped in advance. Captions are carefully created and placed on a video utilizing the audio and video information from your final master.

Off-line captioning begins with:

1. A skilled typist transcribes the audio from your source material.

2. The text is carefully proofed for spelling, grammar and punctuation using a variety of resources.

3. The text is formatted into one of two caption styles:
Pop-On or Roll-Up. Subtitles are in Pop-On style only.

4. The captions are then timed to appear in sync with the master's audio and video and proofed again by a caption editor.

5. The captions are then encoded as closed or open.

Off-line captioning is most commonly used in TV programs and movies, educational videos, corporate training tapes, home videos, commercials and music videos, to name a few.