Captioning
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Closed Captioning
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Captioning translates the audio part of a video into captions that appear at the bottom of the screen. The ‘closed’ part means that the text is hidden until it is selected.
Open captions are captions that are burned into the video so they cannot be turned off. McMaster provides open captions as part of its captioning service.
AODA Requirement:
- Any video added to a McMaster website AFTER 2014 or being used in a class, presentation, public talk, or online course MUST be properly closed-captioned - either as part of the production process or retroactively
McMaster Captioning Standard:
- Where possible, please caption, as indicated below:
Length of Video | Captioning Solution |
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3-5 minutes | YouTube auto-generated captions, with manual clean-up |
5-60+ minutes | Upload to Rev.com - if less than 60 minutes, returned within 24 hours - $1/minute Build into the cost of producing all new videos and have captioned at the point of creation. |
Commercial videos | Need to get permission to caption, then provide a digital copy to Rev.com, as above |
Lecture Captures | No viable solution yet - average 3 hours long - only used for one term - very costly |
Questions / help / guidance - all available at captioning@mcmaster.ca