There are many reasons why you may require urgent or live closed captioning services. Perhaps you are running an event and want to ensure accessibility by displaying display captions for your audience to follow along. Perhaps your business has an important town hall meeting and you want to distribute fully captioned video as soon as possible after the event. Or maybe you have a film or series ready to go live online, on TV or via VoD and you urgently need captions to hand over to your service provider. In this article we’ll take a look at urgent closed captioning as opposed to live closed captioning.
What is the difference?
When it comes to online and offline closed captioning, there are some fundamental differences that should be considered. Online closed captions, or live closed captions are created immediately and displayed simultaneously for live events or videos. Offline closed captions are created using a video recording after the event. These can be created with very fast timescales if urgent captions are needed, but are by no means ‘live.’ The most important thing to consider when looking into live closed captioning is that live captions cannot be exported or saved.
Why use both?
Live closed captions are designed to display on a one-time-only basis. If you require closed captions for distribution quickly after your video has aired, the option required would be urgent closed captioning services. At Capital Captions, we offer urgent subtitling and closed captioning services with turnarounds as low as under four hours.
Benefits of reworking live stenography
Besides the fact that in order to distribute closed captions after a live event, they need to be reworked, there are many benefits to working with subtitling offline.
These are as follows:
- Offline closed captions are more accurate and can be typed verbatim, where live captions often need to be truncated and/or summarised in order to keep pace.
- Writing captions offline gives closed captioners time to research keywords, names or jargon.
- As online closed captioning typically relies on voice recognition over typing, spelling mistakes or misuse of words is more common than when working with text offline.
- Offline captions can be exported in a number of formats. They can be kept, reedited and used to boost SEO. Live closed captions display on a one-time-only basis.
So there you have it. Some of the pro’s and cons of getting urgent closed captioning as opposed to using live closed captioning. If you’d like to know more about our closed captions, subtitling services or any of other typing services, get in touch today and one of our member’s of staff will be happy to assist you. Alternatively if you know what you require hit the quote button below to get a price estimate for your video.
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