September 13, 2010 at 1:08 pm
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I got pretty excited about YouTube’s closed captioning feature today. Well, it went like this… I uploaded a new version of a student testimonial video of students in the SUNY Delhi online RN to BSN degree program, and I wanted it to be closed captioned. So in YouTube, I went to the “Captions and Subtitles” tab, where there was an already existing “Machine Transcription” which I downloaded out of curiosity. Wow. It was scary what I found in it! At first I thought it was uploaded by another user. Then I realized it was just something similar to the voicemail text transcription in GoogleVoice, which can be pretty far off…
YouTube Captions Made Easy
But then I noticed I could upload my own file – so I just copied and pasted the plain text transcript, with line breaks between lines into a plain text .txt file, and uploaded it to see how it worked… It was simple and painless and WORKS GREAT! It actually seemed to match up when people spoke to the words. The one issue I had was where there was a pause with music and text and nobody speaking, but the captions moved ahead anyway. At any rate, this is great news for ADA and UDL people looking for easy and cheap (free) ways to caption videos. Just type out the text transcript, save to a .txt file and upload to your videos!
Check it out! (You may have to click on the CC icon in the lower right of the video window to activate the captions:
Accredited by NLNAC, SUNY Delhi’s online RN to BSN degree program is all about quality, affordability, and flexibility. A smart way to move ahead in your nursing career! Learn more athttp://www.delhi.edu/online
These 2 new Flip video cameras offer faculty and staff an easy way to create short videos for coursework, training, short vignettes, etc. – and copy them to a hard drive, upload to online video hosting sites, posting in Vancko Hall, etc.
Details:
regular flip ultra: runs on AA batteries (better for replacing if they run out in middle of production) records at 640×480 (better for internet hosting, smaller files) records 2 hours of video
Ultra HD: runs on internal battery (charges via USB, up to 6 hours to charge) records at 1280×720 (better for burning to DVD) records 2 hours of video
