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Captioning Flash Video with CaptionSync™

Adobe Flash Automatic Sync Tecnologies is able to deliver high quality captions for Flash media, very quickly and cost effectively.

Streaming video content over the web using Flash is gaining tremendous popularity, particularly in education, and as support for seminars, and conferences.  This new medium allows viewers to attend a presentation without the inconvenience and cost of travel, and can substantially reduce facilities costs for the content provider.

Captioned Flash foster a better viewing experience, which in turn leads to higher adoption rates, better retention of the presented material, and higher user satisfaction.  Automatic Sync Technologies (AST) maintains a strong focus on captioning for web media, especially in educational settings, and can work with clients to develop fully automated solutions to caption and publish captioned web content.

Customer Quote

The process that AST has developed for creating closed caption video content for web and broadcast has been a terrific asset to our institution.  AST's superb customer support and great educational pricing makes it inexcusable for us not to provide our educational video content with captioning.
- Philip Ruckart
NC State College of Veterinary Medicine

Output

Content with a transcript takes about 5 minutes, that requiring transcription, about 2-3 business days (24 hour rush transcription is also available).  And of course our automated solution is available around the clock -- whenever you need it!

XML caption files are emailed back to you, ready to be referenced in the Flash captioning component and placed up on your Flash Media Server or web server.

AST supports several methods of captioning Flash, including:

Plus, you can get back any/all of our other output types to support captioning for other web media formats, DVDs, or videotape all at the same time for no additional cost.

Benefits

Captioning also offers a number of additional benefits to all users that should not be overlooked:

  • Compliance: ADA and Section 508 require captioning for most broadcast and distributed video content.  Webcasts fall under ADA and are subject to these captioning requirements.  If you are making a webcast publicly available, then it should be captioned.
  • Indexing and Searching: because captioning involves the synchronization of text content with the audio/video material, it allows the content to become easily searchable with traditional text searches
  • Universal Access: design your content from the ground up to be as usable as possible by as many people as possible.
  • Improving Comprehension: captioning improves comprehension for all viewers, especially for those with English as a second language.

The CaptionSync Automated Captioning Process

The captions are stored in a secondary file, and do not impact your media file, or the process by which you produce it.

Upon submitting your media file to AST for captioning, you will receive the appropriate secondary file containing the caption data.  Your media server can then easily be made to stream both the media file and the caption data file to viewers, automatically enabling captions to be viewed.

Advanced Features

Using a standard set of markup commands, producers can optionally "mark-up" the text transcript in order to control the exact format, location and content of the captions.  This feature allows producers to dictate the font, color, and positioning of any caption, as well as provide content to appear in the captions that is not found in the audio track.

Get Started Today!

Contact AST for pricing details and to set up a login ID on the caption server, and get captioning today!

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