On Friday, October 8, 2010, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 was signed into law by President Barack Obama. This new law expands the requirements for web video captioning and accessibility services. More specifically, it requires that any closed captioned television program be closed captioned when delivered over the Internet. The law also requires all devices capable of displaying video to be able to display closed captions.
CaptionLink will help you meet the new closed captioning requirements for all of your WEB projects.
WEB FORMATS with Closed Captions
- YouTube Closed Captioning... CaptionLink will provide files for all of your social media videos and can quickly convert existing files from existing TV closed captioned masters to play in YouTube videos.
- Flash Closed Captioning... CaptionLink will provide file formats for all of your Flash needs: Adobe CS5, Flex, Flow Player, JW Player, Hulu, and Captionate plug-in support closed captioning files for the web. CaptionLink can provide the following file formats for the different Flash players: .srt, DFXP Timed Text .xml, SAMI .smi, Captionate .xml, and embedded .FLV with captions.
- Windows Media Closed Captioning... CaptionLink will provide you with SAMI (.smi) files or .WMV files with captioning for all of your Windows Media closed captioning needs.
- Video files to Web Closed Captioning... CaptionLink will extract closed captions from any of these video file types and convert them to any web format for you: MXF, MPEG-2, DV25, DVCPRO HD, QuickTime ProRes, Line-21 VBI, Avid AAF.
- Mobile Devices Closed Captioning... The iPhone, iPod, and iPads are by far the most common players for portable video and music media. The Apple devices also support closed captioning in video files hosted on your website. CaptionLink will encode closed captions into your QuickTime videos with any pixel resolution. Captions can be extracted from broadcast masters or created from scratch for you and inserted into your existing video files.
- iTunes Closed Captioning... iTunes software for Mac and Windows can display closed captioning for iTunes videos, including video podcasts and iTunes U. We can add closed captions to a QuickTime .mov or .m4v files without re-compression or generation loss.
CaptionLink will prepare your existing captioned videos for the web... We work with TV broadcast producers and many other groups who need a way to get their videos that were closed captioned for broadcast or other video projects onto the web without losing the captions. We will convert existing masters with closed captions to any required format for the web. We will consult with your webmaster to make certain that your internet video content will play with closed captioning for all your online viewers with all of the various players available.
CaptionLink will convert your archived captioned masters for web delivery... We can take large archives of closed caption files and videos in many different formats and then create files that can be uploaded to the web and retain the captions.
Keep in mind that we also create Closed Captioning for the Web from scratch if needed. Just send us a low rez QT and we'll take it from there. We will transcribe, format and synchronize the text and then export the file type needed for your web project.