CUIN 7346 - Educational Uses of Digital Video

Adding Captions to Video Clips

Captioning Tools

Camtasia Studio

Camtasia Studio 4 Tutorial: How to Add Captions
http://www.techsmith.com/learn/camtasia/editing/add-captions.asp

Overstream.net
http://www.overstream.net

Adobe Premiere Pro

Creating Automatic Transcripts in Flash Video Using Adobe CS4
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=10923

Macaw - free
http://www.whitanderson.com/macaw/

Captioning with Macaw
http://www.htctu.net/trainings/manuals/web/macaw.pdf

Macaw is a Free Program That Helps Add Text Tracks to QuickTime Video.

Download Macaw

Macaw for Macintosh OS 9
Macaw for Macintosh OS 10
(tested on OS 10.2.x and above)
Macaw for Windows

Macaw Directions (screen capture videos)

Sample Transcript and Video
A sample transcript for Macaw and a short video for practice.

Toggle Buttons (Macintosh or Windows)
Free QuickTime sprites which you can add to your QuickTime videos to let users toggle on and off the text track. There is also a version that lets you toggle English and Spanish captions on and off.

For this week's assignment, you have two choices:

1. You may use any program of your choosing to attempt to add captions to a video clip. In my exploration on captioning, Camtasia Studio worked well, however it would be good to investigate how other options work for adding captions to video clips. If you choose this option, you will need to add captions to a video clip that includes at least 30 seconds of recorded narration.

If you select this option, please upload your completed video to a location online where I can view it (such as Google Video, YouTube, Blogger, or other location) and include the URL in your post.

or

2. You may write about adding captions to a video project. If you select this option, you should address some or all of the following topics:

When you have completed this assignment, go to the course discussion blog at: http://cuin7346.blogspot.com/ and under Discussion Assignment Ten, post a comment in which you discuss your work on this assignment.

http://shaunna-cuin7346.blogspot.com/	I recorded my audio with the Samson microphone that I checked out from UH. Once I got the hang of speaking into it from an angle, the recording was free from popping “p”s and other annoyances. I recorded the audio directly into Audacity so that I could save it as a WAV and not be forced to compress it. Once I edited my mistakes and pauses, I saved the file and imported it into Premiere Elements with my music and my video for the opening sequence. I got my music from www.freeplaymusic.com and I think it adds a good feeling to my overall project. I really like how Premiere Elements allows you to have separate audio tracks so that you can edit them simultaneously as you check the video for timing (Windows Movie Maker does not offer this option). Fading the soundtrack out to make way for the recorded script was a snap (waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy easier than trying to do it in Goldwave or Audacity alone and then bringing it into the video editor in hopes that it all works out right). You can view my current version at my video blog.

http://msposterickam08.blogspot.com/	I also used the microphone that I checked out from the lab and used Audacity to capture and edit the audio. I was limited on locations to record in as I did it at school so we recorded the audio in a storage closet that is between two noisy Kindergarten classrooms. :) I decided that since I have already recorded my voice that I would be daring and have my students record their voices. I started by just having a few record their voices saying the names of the titles of the videos from my practice video that I have been using the past few weeks. They all wanted a turn, however, so I got lots of practice in recording each of them individually. I then decided to venture off and see what would happen when recording all 20 Kindergarteners at once. They really loved this and the sound actually was not bad in my opinion even though audio is new territory for me. In the end I used two of the group recordings and then 3 individual recordings in my video. You may notice that I did not use any of the boys individual recordings in my video. This is because no matter how many times I started over or redirected they all insisted on using funny voices while we were recording.

http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~gkitmacher/ISS.wmv	I've uploaded a video, not yet with voice over narration, so I am running behind a bit... This is composed of a series of four short videos edited together and with a title too. The videos include some animation, done for a Game but which nicely show the interior of the space station, video returned by the Space Shuttle about a week ago, showing the space station as it currently appears, and on-board video of one of the astronauts on the space station, Jeff Williams, about a year ago. I was able to produce this in a program called Sony Vegas, which is similar to Premiere, but which actually works pretty smoothly. I have not figured out how to do sound editing yet with the program, which explains why different sound tracks cut in and out, not smoothly, and some of the video has no sound at all. I will now try and use the microphone to record over some description of the video, in between the musical segments.

http://artbruce.blogspot.com	Hi y’all. I posted a short video and it is also on YouTube but the one on YouTube posted without sound. I have no idea why the sound did not attach to the YouTube version because I uploaded the same file to both locations. I used the Samson microphone and Audacity to get the narration overlay. It took a while to figure out the correct steps to get the microphone to record anything other than a loud hiss and some whispers, but I finally got a reasonable wav file to attach to the video in PE7. PE7 only crashed a handful of times—very frustrating but I saved the file between each step so it was recoverable. Probably the most difficult aspect of the project was getting the sound track and video to synchronize. I would get the two synchronized in one section of the clip but it would slowly get further and further out of sync as it played. During this project I concluded Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams is not really conducive to short clip examples. He is simply too slow and detailed to make sense of short clips. For example, in the chapter called The Blizzard his mountain climbers take nearly seven minutes to travel ten feet in the snow. It is beautiful! A short clip does not do it justice. To edit the scenes for a short video feels like showing an audience just the Mona Lisa’s hair and expecting them to appreciate the whole painting. I am looking for another subject for the final project.

http://video-lrschmidt.blogspot.com/	I really enjoyed using Premiere Elements, and the Samson microphone worked beautifully once I figured out how to adjust the volume on my home computer. I had no problems adding a soundtrack and just adjusted the volume to be 7 dB lower than the narration. Visual culture is my topic for my final presentation, but I wanted to see what I could do with some of the footage I shot with my friends painting.