Detailed Case Studies
CaptionSync has thousands of users whose applications span television broadcast to distance learning to corporate training. Our customers use CaptionSync to make their media accessible, widen their audience, ensure compliance with legislation, and make their content text-searchable and indexable. CaptionSync has become an important component of their production process.
So many of our users are doing interesting and important work; we have invested some time to collect some more detailed information on a few of their applications to help you envision how captioning can bring a positive impact to your own media:
NBC Learn Captions Online Archive
Summary: NBC Learn has created an extensive online learning resource for the education community, leveraging nearly 80 years of historic news coverage, documentary materials, and current news broadcasts. CaptionSync provides captioning for these videos to ensure participating schools are compliant with accessibility requirements and to ensure the content is accessible to all viewers.
Detail: NBC Learn K-12 and NBC Learn Higher Ed are award-winning collections of on-line video and other educational resources that provide schools with an easy and affordable way to integrate 21st century technology, while adding relevance to lessons and engaging learners of all ages and abilities.
To achieve accessibility for all viewers, and to ensure participating schools remain compliant with accessibility requirements, NBC Learn has put extensive effort into ensuring accessibility of their archive. AST’s CaptionSync service provides closed captioning for this vast library which includes over 12,000 video clips.
Check out a video of NBC Learn's Sales Director speaking about their experience with CaptionSync.
Visit the NBC Learn portal to learn more about this exciting project.
To achieve accessibility for all viewers, and to ensure participating schools remain compliant with accessibility requirements, NBC Learn has put extensive effort into ensuring accessibility of their archive. AST’s CaptionSync service provides closed captioning for this vast library which includes over 12,000 video clips.
Check out a video of NBC Learn's Sales Director speaking about their experience with CaptionSync.
Visit the NBC Learn portal to learn more about this exciting project.
Full Case Study: Downloadable PDF Case Study
Services: Captions & Subtitles
Maverick Entertainment Stays Ahead of Captioning Requirements
Summary: Maverick Entertainment Group has acquired a broad catalog of video
content for distribution via VOD, DVD, and streaming over the internet.
To ensure its catalog meets current and future closed captioning
requirements, including the recent CVAA legislation, Maverick needed a
dependable, fast, closed captioning solution that could provide
captioning results in a wide array of formats. Maverick's solution:
CaptionSync!
Detail: Since 1997, Florida-based Maverick Entertainment Group has acquired and
distributed niche films from independent producers for home
entertainment. Maverick has grown its catalog of titles as the market
has evolved, and widened its distribution beyond North America to
include Western Europe and Asia.
In 2012, the company began closed captioning all versions of its content ahead of the FCC’s 2013-14 deadlines. Maverick used AST’s CaptionSync service to caption new titles and archive material very quickly. The service had the ability to provide entire seasons of episodic TV series in correct caption formats to fit Maverick's many needs. While the quick turnaround was a big attraction of CaptionSync, the ability to get multiple caption formats from a single submission meant lower costs and a simpler workflow for content destined for multiple distribution formats.
"As a distributor we are a teacher and stepping stone for independent producers," says Melissa Mackenzie, a Senior Vice President with Maverick Entertainment. "We help them get elements in the right formats to deliver on time and per requirements, including closed captioning. We work to help producers reach new distribution channels. AST helps us help producers on tight budgets and deadlines to get new audience recognition."
AST is excited to play a small part in helping get content from new independent producers out the viewing public.
In 2012, the company began closed captioning all versions of its content ahead of the FCC’s 2013-14 deadlines. Maverick used AST’s CaptionSync service to caption new titles and archive material very quickly. The service had the ability to provide entire seasons of episodic TV series in correct caption formats to fit Maverick's many needs. While the quick turnaround was a big attraction of CaptionSync, the ability to get multiple caption formats from a single submission meant lower costs and a simpler workflow for content destined for multiple distribution formats.
"As a distributor we are a teacher and stepping stone for independent producers," says Melissa Mackenzie, a Senior Vice President with Maverick Entertainment. "We help them get elements in the right formats to deliver on time and per requirements, including closed captioning. We work to help producers reach new distribution channels. AST helps us help producers on tight budgets and deadlines to get new audience recognition."
AST is excited to play a small part in helping get content from new independent producers out the viewing public.
Full Case Study: Downloadable PDF Case Study
Services: Transcription, Captions & Subtitles, Result Review
Library of Congress Captions Web Videos
Summary: The Library of Congress website features numerous webcasts. CaptionSync provides captioning for these videos to ensure the videos are accessible to all viewers.
Detail: AST’s CaptionSync service provides closed captioning for web video appearing on the Library of Congress website.
The Library of Congress was established by the U.S. Congress in 1800, making it the oldest federal cultural institution in the U.S. With millions of maps, books, recordings and manuscripts in its collection, it is the largest library holding in the world.
The Library of Congress website features numerous webcasts. The Library makes its web materials available and accessible to all viewers. As part of this effort, the Library adds captions to both archival web videos, as well as new webcasts. Glenn Ricci, Multimedia Coordinator for the Information Technology Services Multimedia Group at The Library of Congress says, “It’s important that we make our webcasts as accessible as possible, not just to meet Section 508 requirements, but to fulfill our mission to make our resources available to everyone.”
AST is proud to be a part of this important project. If you would like to read more about the Library of Congress' captioning efforts, please visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/captions.html.
The Library of Congress was established by the U.S. Congress in 1800, making it the oldest federal cultural institution in the U.S. With millions of maps, books, recordings and manuscripts in its collection, it is the largest library holding in the world.
The Library of Congress website features numerous webcasts. The Library makes its web materials available and accessible to all viewers. As part of this effort, the Library adds captions to both archival web videos, as well as new webcasts. Glenn Ricci, Multimedia Coordinator for the Information Technology Services Multimedia Group at The Library of Congress says, “It’s important that we make our webcasts as accessible as possible, not just to meet Section 508 requirements, but to fulfill our mission to make our resources available to everyone.”
AST is proud to be a part of this important project. If you would like to read more about the Library of Congress' captioning efforts, please visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/captions.html.
Full Case Study: Downloadable PDF Case Study
Services: Transcription, Captions & Subtitles
Purdue University Starts Campus-wide Captioning Effort
Summary: Purdue University's Assistive Technology Center (ATC) promotes an accessible information technology infrastructure at Purdue that is usable by all students, faculty, and staff regardless of disability status. ATC has been using CaptionSync to caption video content.
Detail: After an extensive review of captioning strategies and vendors, the ATC has been using CaptionSync to pursue its implementation of a campus-wide media accessibility initiative. During its analysis, the ATC looked at many criteria, including cost-effectiveness, quality, and scalability. CaptionSync consistently placed high in these evaluations and is used by the ATC for captioning a wide variety of media.
Check out a video of Purdue University's Assistive Technology Specialist offering some comments on their experience with CaptionSync.
Check out a video of Purdue University's Assistive Technology Specialist offering some comments on their experience with CaptionSync.
Full Case Study: Downloadable PDF Case Study
Services: Transcription, Captions & Subtitles
