During the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses have been spreading their messages and keeping their customers engaged through the use of online video sharing. Subtitling and translation are brilliant marketing tools for a number of reasons. Firstly, the more languages you provide alongside your video, the wider your audience. Secondly, closed captions use keywords which can be picked up by search engines to boost your SEO. Thirdly, as in today’s world where many viewers engage with videos with the sound turned off, subtitles ensure that their attention is held early on, discouraging them from switching off. At Capital Captions, we work with online closed captioning services for to ensure fully accessibility of your video content. We provide a number of options for subtitling online videos. Today we are going to be looking at caption services for home learning and remote working. 

Being widely known as the go-to format for subtitling videos online, SRT files contain timed text and can be uploaded to most social media sites and websites. These subtitles are compatible for use with YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft Teams and HTML5 websites. Importantly, SRT captions can be turned on and off by viewers. In summary, they consist of plain timed text and cannot be formatted or styled in terms of fonts, backgrounds, positioning or resolution. Rather, they will display in the style default of the player in which they are implemented. 

Where you may want more control over your subtitle styling, WebVTT is a similar option to SRT but with the added bonus of allowing for colours, fonts and positioning changes. If you’re not sure what subtitle format you need for your video projects, just ask and we can make a recommendation based on your video sharing platform. Some other popular formats for online video sharing sites, especially for e-learning, are SCC, EBU-TT-D, STL and DFXP. 

The main aim of subtitling is always around accessibility, and subtitle burning services are at the forefront of ensuring that your videos are fully accessible from the get-go. Embedding, or burning in subtitles involves a process of rendering captions as a permanent part of your video image, meaning that all viewers will instantly see your subtitles without having to enable closed captioning. This is a popular method in adding captions to social media videos and where home learning and remote working is concerned, ensures full accessibility for your viewers. 

So there you have it, our caption services for home learning and remote working. If you are interested in learning more about our closed captioning services or subtitling services take a look at some of the useful information. Otherwise if you know what type of service you require, why not click on the button below to get your quote started.