About this course
This course is a gentle introduction to post production, or off-line captioning for web based media players. You’ll learn the basics for how to write captions in a format that your audience can watch online (or locally on your computer).
To take this course, you’ll need:
- A YouTube account - a Google gmail account will work as well.
- internet access - high speed is recommended for video viewing.
- A relatively new computer and operating system, or at the very least Windows 7 or greater, Mac OS 10.7 or greater.
- Sufficient free hard drive space to store videos.
Student goals and outcomes in this course
To achieve a Online Captioning Basics Level 1 Badge in this course, you’ll need to
- Demonstrate a grasp of caption basics, including:
- history of captioning from broadcast captioning to captioning on the web
- Know basic rules of good caption writing practices, including:
- caption line lengths
- parsing caption lines
- caption line endings
- non-speech information
- Parse a short transcript from a video that is under 3 minutes in length into well formed captions
- Add a video to YouTube
- Become familiar with the Youtube video editor
- Upload a video to YouTube
- Become familiar with YouTube’s caption editor
- Produce an error-free, grammatically well formed 3 - 5 minute video containing at least 30 captions
To achieve a Online Captioning Basics Level 2 Badge in this course, you’ll need to complete additional exercises, including:
- Applying additional caption rules DCMP’s Caption Key to an additional parsing exercise
- The additional parsing exercise involves a video script that is 10 minutes or longer in length
- Produce an 8 - 10 minute error-free, grammatically well formed video that demonstrates handling of
- more than one speaker one speaker
- presentation of non-speech information