If you currently have a standard subtitle file and have had a request to convert into English closed captions, the first question on your mind may be around what that involves and what is truly the difference?
Subtitles
Whilst Capital Captions currently steer clear of AI captioning as part of our human-loving ethos, we regularly run quality checks and proofreading on automated captions for our clients. This blog includes our professional checklist on the most important aspects to check and amend on closed captions when working on QC of AI captions.
Today’s youth have set subtitles, movie and video captioning on a new path. Captioning times are a-changing, and in this blog, we’ll delve into how, when and why!
The British Film Institute (BFI) offer funding for short films through the National Lottery Funds designated for film. When submitting a film to BFI, open captions, closed captions and audio description are required as enhanced access materials.
At Capital Captions, we believe in the value of human writers and don’t work with any AI captioning in-house. However, we do provide AI caption proofreading services to make changes to improve AI generated captions.
Subtitles are onscreen text which displays in the lower thirds section of a video. Subtitles serve as a transcription of the dialogue within that video.
Anybody old enough to remember life before Netflix existed will recall the elation they felt at discovering what was an unfathomably low-cost,
For most people, the words ‘closed captions’ and ‘subtitles’ may seem to be interchangeable, essentially different words describing the same thing.
It’s no secret that closed captions for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing are a broadcast requirement for video especially in recent years
Whether it’s video translation or in-person interpreting, translation can be a tricky business in the best of times.