Editing Services 

Closed Caption Editing

Caption editing is a service that is often required when switching between caption formats and/or working with different video frame rates to avoid timecodes drifting out of sync. When working with broadcast and/or streaming content, working with different caption formats and specifications is often required. We work with editing to ensure compliance with different character limits, reading speeds, encoding other elements. 

International closed caption editing. Where English closed captions are required for content in both the UK and the US, spellings will need to be QC’d to ensure English or US spellings as required. Similarly, where translation is involved, closed captions often require significant reworking of the source caption file, with changes to reading speeds, subtitle splits, encoding and supported characters. 

Post Production Script Editing and Combined Continuity Spotting Lists (CCSL) 

Following on from finishing a production for broadcast or streaming services, post production script or continuity spotting list is often required. Capital Captions provide services to edit post production scripts to ensure accuracy. We also work with combined continuity spotting lists. 

Creating a post production script involves editing of the original shooting script, with changes made to dialogue and descriptions as required. Overall, a post production script should contain dialogue, scene descriptions and timecodes for scene changes and featured music, with names listed. It should also contain a list of credits and/or onscreen text in the video. A combined continuity spotting list should contain shot by shot details of the visual narrative within a video. This is the ‘continuity’ element. Alongside descriptions of the visuals in the video should be the subtitle information, with verbatim dialogue and sound effects and/or descriptions included. A combined continuity spotting list is the most detailed post production script format there is.