Education
University of Pittsburgh Mediasite
Summary: The University of Pittsburgh Center for
Instructional Development and Distance Education (CIDDE) uses Mediasite to increase the quality of distance
learning technology and to record their lectures for students to watch, using AST for captioning and transcription.
Detail: The University of Pittsburgh Center for
Instructional Development and Distance Education (CIDDE) provides support for four
primary cross-functional service areas: instructional development,
faculty development, instructional support and university support.
CIDDE provides faculty with a primary contact point for many of the
instructional services they need, and it also assists in developing and
supporting distance education programs and courses. CIDDE uses a lecture capturing system and from there identifies which recorded lectures will be sent to AST for captioning and transcription.
External Link: University of Pittsburgh
Services: Transcription, Captions & Subtitles
Edustream Captioned Video Example
Summary: Edustream.org is a video streaming hosting platform for shared distance learning whose content is fully ADA-compliant.
Detail: Edustream.org is a cost-effective, centralized resource for providing educational institutions with the video playlists of courses. Edustream.org is sponsored by the San Bernardino Community College District and holds strategic partnerships with Sungard Higher Education Managed Services and Seattle Community College Educational Television. EduStream.org was initially conceptualized as a means of addressing the increasing concerns of academic rigor with traditional television courses. EduStream.org offers educational institutions the support to embed accessible educational videos in their online content, to expand staff and professional development programs, and to increase the reach of their workforce and economic development programs.
External Link: Edustream Video Hosting Platform
Services: Transcription, Captions & Subtitles
Benefits to Education from Transcription and Captioning
- Higher Quality Media Products … Instructional videos, course materials, web video, lecture capture recordings, and training materials.
- Global Inclusion to Students and Educators … Improves online classroom instruction, instructional materials, and digital content.
- Improved Sensitivity to Educational Needs …
- Students with disabilities
- ESL, Learning Disabilities, and Hearing Impaired
- Improves comprehension and retention for all students
- Ensures Media Accessibility Compliance
- Increased Discoverability of Media … Captioning enables video search and indexing functionality, allowing students to find and access the material they seek more readily.
- Education Cost Benefits … Volume purchase programs available.
Departments Who Benefit
- Distance or Online Teaching and Learning
- Enrollment/Recruiting
- Communications
- Human Resources
- Media services and video production
- Instructional Design
- Disability Services
- Individual Faculty wanting to make their media accessible
What Are You Planning?
Authoring DVDs with Captions & Subtitles
Are you looking to add captions or subtitles to your DVD? CaptionSync can provide just about everything you need.
We'll get the material transcribed, and generate line-21 closed captions and subtitles for Apple's DVD Studio Pro, Sonic's DVDit Pro, Adobe's Encore, Avid DVD by Sonic, MediaChance's DVD Lab Pro, and others. Plus we have how-to videos to show you how to author them. If you are an educational institution or government entity we also offer our DVD Transfer service were you just send in the DVDs and we take care of everything.
We'll get the material transcribed, and generate line-21 closed captions and subtitles for Apple's DVD Studio Pro, Sonic's DVDit Pro, Adobe's Encore, Avid DVD by Sonic, MediaChance's DVD Lab Pro, and others. Plus we have how-to videos to show you how to author them. If you are an educational institution or government entity we also offer our DVD Transfer service were you just send in the DVDs and we take care of everything.
- Services You Should Consider
- Transcription
- Captions & Subtitles
- Result Review
- DVD Transfer
- Related How-To Tutorials
- Captioning with Encore
- Captioning with DVD Studio Pro
- Related Pages
- DVD Subtitles
Captioning for Broadcast
Do you need to deliver SD or HD captions to the head end? CaptionSync can help.
We can take care of the transcription, caption file generation, and review. We deliver industry standard SCC files for file-based MPEG ingestion, Omneon servers, or print-tape DV captions via Final Cut Pro 7. We also offer Digital NLE Captions for print-tape captions for D1 directly from your Avid, Final Cut Pro, or Premiere.
We can take care of the transcription, caption file generation, and review. We deliver industry standard SCC files for file-based MPEG ingestion, Omneon servers, or print-tape DV captions via Final Cut Pro 7. We also offer Digital NLE Captions for print-tape captions for D1 directly from your Avid, Final Cut Pro, or Premiere.
- Services You Should Consider
- Transcription
- Captions & Subtitles
- Result Review
- Post Processing
- Related Pages
- Output Formats
- Broadcast Captions
Captioning for iTunes U
Need iTunes U vodcasts accessible in iTunes, iPods and iPhone?
There are many ways to caption podcast content and CaptionSync can do them all. We can do the transcription and generation of SCC caption and/or subtitle files. Furthermore we can provide direct integration into Prodcast Producer so that your media comes directly to CaptionSync, your caption results return directly into Podcast Producer and are automatically inserted in the video and pushed to iTunes U.
There are many ways to caption podcast content and CaptionSync can do them all. We can do the transcription and generation of SCC caption and/or subtitle files. Furthermore we can provide direct integration into Prodcast Producer so that your media comes directly to CaptionSync, your caption results return directly into Podcast Producer and are automatically inserted in the video and pushed to iTunes U.
- Services You Should Consider
- Transcription
- Captions & Subtitles
- Result Review
- Related How-To Tutorials
- How to Obtain your Podcast Caption Files
- Open Captioning a Podcast
- Captioning Podcasts with Compressor
- Captioning Podcasts with QuickTime
- Related Pages
- Podcast Captioning
Captioning for Lecture Capture
If you are looking to get the job done for just one lecture or an entire semester of lectures CaptionSync is well positioned to help you out.
We deliver formats for Echo360, Mediasite, Panopto, Tegrity, Elluminate, among others. We take care of the transcription and generation of caption files. We have direct integrations built into Echo360, Mediasite, Panopto, resulting in an automated workflow that once set up, takes care of everything for you.
We deliver formats for Echo360, Mediasite, Panopto, Tegrity, Elluminate, among others. We take care of the transcription and generation of caption files. We have direct integrations built into Echo360, Mediasite, Panopto, resulting in an automated workflow that once set up, takes care of everything for you.
- Services You Should Consider
- Transcription
- Captions & Subtitles
- Result Review
- Related How-To Tutorials
- Configuring Echo360 for Captioning
- Captioning with Echo360
- Captioning with Panopto CourseCast
- Related Pages
- Lecture Capture Captioning
- Mediasite
- Echo360
- Panopto
Captioning for YouTube
Do you need quality YouTube captions that won't get you into trouble the way speech recognition can? CaptionSync will take care of the transcription using our professional stenographers, and the generation of caption files for YouTube. We can handle the job whether it's just a couple of videos or your entire YouTube channel.
- Services You Should Consider
- Transcription
- Captions & Subtitles
- Result Review
- Related How-To Tutorials
- Captioning Your own YouTube Videos
- Captioning Somebody Else's YouTube Videos
- Using List of URLs for Captioning
- Related Pages
- Captioning for Video-Sharing
- Output Formats
Captioning Web Media
Do you need captions for Flash, JW FLV Player, Flowplayer, QuickTime, Windows Media, and/or Real? CaptionSync can deliver any (or all them at no additional charge).
We take care of the transcription and the generation of caption files. We can handle anything from a single 3 minute clip to an automated workflow that once set up, takes care of hundreds of clips per day.
We take care of the transcription and the generation of caption files. We can handle anything from a single 3 minute clip to an automated workflow that once set up, takes care of hundreds of clips per day.
- Services You Should Consider
- Transcription
- Captions & Subtitles
- Result Review
- Copy Edit
Making Web Media Searchable
Do you want to be able to jump to the precise point in the video you're looking to find?
CaptionSync delivers the data to make that happen. When your get your web media transcribed and captioned, you not only make it accessible, but you also get search data at no addition charge. Various platforms and players use our data to empower video search.
CaptionSync delivers the data to make that happen. When your get your web media transcribed and captioned, you not only make it accessible, but you also get search data at no addition charge. Various platforms and players use our data to empower video search.
- Services You Should Consider
- Transcription
- Captions & Subtitles
- Related How-To Tutorials
- Video Search Example
- Video Search in Action
Providing Text Transcripts
Looking for a verbatim text transcript of the audio from a meeting, focus group, or the like?
We can help you out with our standard three business day or one business day rush transcription. The transcript will be emailed right back to you and we can handle anything from a single 3 minute piece to a large batch of focus groups.
Transcription only jobs do not contain timed caption or subtitle information in the text.
We can help you out with our standard three business day or one business day rush transcription. The transcript will be emailed right back to you and we can handle anything from a single 3 minute piece to a large batch of focus groups.
Transcription only jobs do not contain timed caption or subtitle information in the text.
- Services You Should Consider
- Transcription
What AST’s CaptionSync Provides
- Low Cost Solution
- Dependable Quality from Human Transcription
- Training Resources for Your Staff
- Cutting-Edge Automation for Rapid Results
- Ease of Use
- Integrated Automated Workflow with a Large Variety of Lecture Capture Systems
- VPAT
Some Schools Using CaptionSync
Stanford University
University of California
The California Community College System
The California State University System
The University of Wisconsin System
University of California
The California Community College System
The California State University System
The University of Wisconsin System
Columbia University
Gallaudet University
Dallas Independent School District
Portland Community College
Chicago Public Schools
Gallaudet University
Dallas Independent School District
Portland Community College
Chicago Public Schools
Pricing
- Web-based pay per use service.
- No software to buy or install.
- Choose just the services needed (you can provide your own verbatim text transcript to get captions, or you can have us do the transcription for you, or just get a transcript).
- Pay online via credit card or Visa/MasterCard branded purchase cards.
