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Closed Captioning: Getting Your Lines Right

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As lecture capture and distance learning take hold in higher ed, colleges pursue different approaches to the issue of closed captioning and transcription.

The rapid growth of lecture capture and distance education in higher education is raising fresh concerns about accessibility, since it's difficult--if not impossible--for hearing-impaired students to use these tools effectively. As a result, many colleges and universities are renewing their focus on closed captioning as a viable solution.

While the impetus for closed captioning stems from a desire to accommodate students with hearing issues, schools are also discovering that closed captioning has broader appeal, particularly among students for whom English is a second language. And for the rest of the students on campus, there's one other big benefit: It allows them to search captured content quickly, by enabling keyword searches.

Closing in on Automation
George Mason University (VA) believes the answer is yes. The school, whose population comprises an increasing number of students with disabilities--including veterans who are deaf or hard of hearing--already uses remote Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services in the classroom. This technology allows a deaf or hearing-impaired person to use a password and username to log onto the web and view a real-time text translation of what's being said in class. (The system requires a trained operator at a remote location to provide manual transcription.)

Now, the university is looking to replace that system with a more automated solution. It recently approved a "caption proposal" that will allow faculty to upload their files and have them captioned quickly.

"We’re going to be a multimedia capturing service right here in our office," says Kara Zirkle, IT accessibility coordinator and head of the school's Assistive Technology Initiative. Her team will use the Docsoft:AV audio/video search and closed captioning system . In use at the school for a few years, the server-based technology includes an integrated voice-recognition system.

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Your Questions About Home Window Film Video

Mariok answers:

It depends on what kind of video camera you have, but in many cases, this means your video camera is recording AC3 audio, which isn’t supported by Windows Media Player. Typically you can fix this by installing an app called AC3Filter which converts the audio to something your computer will support:

http://www.topdrawerdownloads.com/download/104994

I have several videos i filmed on my mobile and uploaded. I now want to make a ‘best of’ sort of video , where i want to take the best parts of all my movies and combine them into one.

Does anyone know an easy (or even a hard!) way to do that? Is it possible? I have Windows Movie Maker already but could download any other free software if someone suggested it. I checked Windows Movie Maker and the tutorial says i can combine clips if they are ‘contiguous’ or shot at the same time in the same sequence. My movies are all different, filmed at different times.

Hope someone can help. I get the feeling that, with all the software available nowadays, it cant be a difficult thing to do, once i know how!

Thanks a lot In video editing, what is a “Power Window”?

I’m having some trouble with a short film that I am producing. I have a scene that’s suppose to take place in a home that’s been condemned for three years, and we’re “investigating” with a night shot camera. So the entire scene is shot in night shot, but it’s still obvious that some over head lights were left on. The scene was kind of rushed, it’s an oversight I’ve learned to watch for from now on as a director. Anyway, I was listening to the “Clerks 2″ technical commentary and I heard the DP talking about putting a “Power Window ” around certain elements in a shot during post production so he could dial down the brightness, saturation, etc. of just say, a light or a window and not affect the brightness of his actors or set elements. Is anybody familiar with this term and where should I look to get more information about it?

The Power window they refer to the window or gate that controls exposition for the answer print i.e.when transferring from negative to positive or from reversible to final print. However to manipulate the light they must pass that section independently through the gate to control the exposure of light and manipulate it. This takes place in the film processing lab, and you can ask for further corrections that they can do for you.

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