Captioning DVDs used to entail sending out tapes, getting back proofs, waiting weeks for results, and spending hundreds of dollars per half hour show. No longer with AMB Media Services' CaptionSync automated captioning service. This service automatically takes care of parsing the text into appropriate captions, synchronizing them with the audio, and formatting the output for DVDs.
Why Caption?
While captioning audio/video presentations is a lifeline for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, captioning can be used to improve your product and enhance its accessibility to a much larger community. Captioning offers the following important benefits:
ADA Compliance Compliance with ADA or Section 508 requires that all broadcast or distributed video content be captioned. This applies to webcast material as well as traditional video broadcasts, video tapes, and DVDs.
Universal Access Design your content from the ground up to be as usable as possible by as many people as possible. Captioning is a key element of Universal Design for video material, especially for educational material. Captioning provides an alternative channel of information and allows a larger community of viewers to have access.
Improving Comprehension Captioning improves comprehension for all viewers, especially for those with English as a second language. Noise or distractions in the listening environment, underdeveloped English skills on the part of the listener, or heavy accents on the part of the talker all work to deteriorate the message being communicated. Captioning can improve comprehension in all these cases.
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. This allows viewers to have rapid access to the parts of the content they need. This is particularly important for educational materials and corporate presentations.
No Transcript? No Problem If you have a transcript of your video you can simply e-mail us a .txt file of the transcript. For those of you without a transcript we've got you covered also. AMB's CaptionSync technologies can automatically create a transcript from the audio in your DVD.
Pricing & More... For a price list or more information on AMB's close captioning and sub-titling service please call us toll free at (866) 645-3358 or e-mail us at info@ambmediaservices.com. |