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• Overview
• Web Captioning
• DVD/Videotape Captioning
• Broadcast Captioning
• Video Search
• Google Video
• Podcast Captioning

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Automated Captioning Service Overview

AST's CaptionSync automated captioning service offers a wide variety of output formats for captioning Web media, captioning Broadcast media (videotape and DVDs), or adding search and navigation features to web media.  You can choose as many output formats as you need - there is no increase in cost or turnaround time for selecting multiple output formats.

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Web Caption Output

Allows formatting fonts, colors, number of lines, line lengths, etc, outside the line-21 constraints.  Users typically choose this if they are focussed on streaming media only.  Choices include:

• QuickTime captions (See details)
• Windows Media captions
• RealMedia captions (See details)
• iTunes captions
• QuickTime Karaoke output
• MP3 Lyric LRC output
• Flash Captions for Flash 8 and CS3 caption component (See details)
• Flash Captions for Jeroen Wijering's JW FLV Player
• Flash Captions for NCAM's free CCforFlash caption component
• Flash Captions for RIT's free Flash caption component
• Flash Captions for Captionate

Broadcast Caption and DVD Subtitle Output

Output is constrained to EIA-608 formats on line lengths, number of lines and such.  Users typically choose this for DVDs, encoding broadcast line-21, or if they have both web and broadcast media.  Broadcast formats include:

• Scenarist/DVDSP captions
• Scenarist/DVDSP subtitles
• Adobe Encore subtitles
• Sonic DVDit Pro subtitles
• SubRip SRT subtitles
• Pictron XML output
• RapidText captions
• Cheetah binary captions
• Cheetah/CPC text captions

Streaming Media Search Output

Output timing data is saved in a format which enables search of on-demand video or audio.  Search and Navigation formats include:

• Browsable HTML output (See demo)
• Google Video Timestamped Transcripts
• AST Search Data output

Google Video Output

Google Video timestamped transcript output is available at no additional cost for regular captioning accounts.  AST also offers accounts which are limited to Google Video timestamped transcript output only.  These accounts are targeted to users who do not need full caption output, but rather only want to submit their media to Google Video.