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Part 2: Making Your Videos Accessible

Do You YouTube?. Part 2: Making Your Videos Accessible. February 3, 2012 Emily Pitts, OCTS. Workflow Steps. Create your video Transcribe your video Upload video to YouTube (as unlisted ) Create captions Write text description* Add captions and descriptive text to video

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Part 2: Making Your Videos Accessible

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  1. Do You YouTube? Part 2: Making Your Videos Accessible February 3, 2012 Emily Pitts, OCTS Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  2. Workflow Steps • Create your video • Transcribe your video • Upload video to YouTube (as unlisted) • Create captions • Write text description* • Add captions and descriptive text to video • Make video public Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  3. Workflow Checklist We’ll need: • A video on YouTube We’d like: • Text transcript • Caption file • Descriptive video text We’ll use: • YouTube • A text editor • Universal Subtitles We’ll produce: • An accessible video Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  4. Transcribe your video - manually Process: • Listen to audio • Type transcript while listening • Play, pause, type • Say it with the speaker • Save as UTF-8.txt Tips and best practices: • Transcripts on the Web @ uiAccess.comhttp://www.uiaccess.com/transcripts/transcripts_on_the_web.html Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  5. Transcribe your video - outsource Process: • Submit video to vendor/freelancer • Need to review when returned • Accuracy • Inaudible sections • Proper names • Scientific names, etc. List of vendors: • Transcription Services @ uiAccess.comhttp://www.uiaccess.com/transcripts/transcript_services.html Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  6. Optimize transcript for captions Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible Process: • Open text-transcript • Chunk content into logical sequences • 1-3 lines (typically 2) • ~ 33 characters long • Logical line breaks where speech normally pauses • Save as UTF-8.txt

  7. Go to Captioning Key sitehttp://www.dcmp.org/ai/captioningkey Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  8. Style guidelines for caption texthttp://www.dcmp.org/ai/captioningkey DCMP.org’s Captioning Key: • Text and line breaks • Language mechanics • Spelling • Punctuation • Pauses in thought • Presentation rate • Sound effects • Speaker identification Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  9. Synchronize captions Need to know: • Closely match orginal audio. • Maintain textual unity with picture and sound ensures clarity Two methods: • Manual – synchronize captions to video with online tool • Automate – upload chunked transcript to YouTube Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  10. How does it work? • You link to your video • You upload text • Online tools allow you to • Edit caption text • Synch caption text with audio • Review captions with video • Adjust timing • Export final product Use UniversalSubtitles:http://www.universalsubtitles.org Synchronize captions manually Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  11. Go to UniversalSubtitles.orghttp://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  12. Upload chunked transcripthttp://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible Sign into Universal Subtitles Enter link to YouTube video Click on “upload” option beneath video Choose “paste in transcript” Upload chunked transcript file. Chunked transcript file loads as unsynched captions

  13. Upload transcript http://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  14. Upload transcript http://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  15. Upload transcript http://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  16. Open caption editor http://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible • Choose “English” from dropdown under “Video” • From that menu, choose “Improve these subtitles” • Basic interface • Video • Playback information • Timeline • Caption blocks on timeline • Caption editor

  17. Create captions: Edit* http://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible Review captions Delete unnecessary entries Edit as needed * Can also use this step to transcribe inside UniversalSubtitles.

  18. UniversalSubtitles.org - Edit http://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  19. Create captions: Sync to audio http://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible Play/pause video with TAB key Tap DOWN ARROW to line up caption Unsynched sections are grayed-out Synched sections are white. If you get really off-track, restart!

  20. UniversalSubtitles.org - Sync http://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  21. Create captions: Review and adjust http://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible Continue to use TAB and the DOWN ARROW as needed. “Scrub” if needed – move the timeline backwards and forwards to find the right spot. Drag edges of the caption in the timeline to make slight adjustments. Sometimes stretching the caption too far and starting that time over helps get back on track.

  22. Export captions for YouTube http://www.universalsubtitles.org Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible • Click on “English” in menu beneath video • Choose “download subtitles” • Downloads SRT automatically • Choose “subtitle page” for more options • SRT, SSA, TTML, TXT, SBV, DFXP • Go to “Download” menu and choose SBV

  23. Add captions to YouTube video http://www.youtube.com Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible Login to YouTube account. Navigate to video Choose “Edit captions/subtitles” from top menu Choose “Add New Captions or Transcript” Load file, choose type “Caption file” Select language, leave name blank Click “Upload file” REVIEW

  24. YouTube – upload captions http://www.youtube.com Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  25. Login to YouTube account. • Navigate to video • Choose “Edit captions/subtitles” from top menu • Choose “Add New Captions or Transcript” • Locate chunked transcript file • Choose type “Transcript file” • Select language, leave name blank • Click “Upload file” • REVIEW Synchronize captions automatically http://www.youtube.com Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  26. Adjust YouTube captions Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible What if the captions don’t completely synch? • Download .SBV file from YouTube. • Make adjustments to written text in text editor • Make adjustments to synching at UniversalSubtitles.org • Follow basic instructions to pull up video in UnivSub. • Click on “upload” option beneath video • Locate your caption file and choose “Upload” • Use basic instructions to edit captions.

  27. Add Text Transcript to YouTube http://www.youtube.com Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible Host it yourself: Host a .txt or simple .html file on your server Link to file from YouTube from description area Reuse YouTube captions: Link to dynamic YouTube text-transcript in description area:http://www.caes.uga.edu/global/media/texttranscript.cfm?vid=yourYouTubeVideoID

  28. Provide narration of key visual elements (not audio dialogue) • Describe per scene • Actions, scene changes, settings, body language, graphics, displayed text… • Be concise • Include items necessary for comprehension of overall video clip • Save as .txt or .html file Write Descriptive Video Text Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible

  29. Add Descriptive Text to YouTube http://www.youtube.com Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible Host it yourself: Host a .txt or simple .html file on your server Link to file from YouTube description area Embed it on YouTube: Add descriptive text to description area for YouTube video.

  30. Online Resources Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible YouTube – video hostingwww.YouTube.com Universal Subtitles – caption editorwww.UniversalSubtitles.org Automatic Sync Technologies – transcription and caption providerwww.AutomaticSync.com Captioning Key – best practices and tips to format captionswww.DCMP.org/ai/captioningkey uiAccess – transcription guidelines and providershttp://www.uiaccess.com/transcripts/transcripts_on_the_web.htmlhttp://www.uiaccess.com/transcripts/transcript_services.html

  31. Questions? Do You YouTube? : : Part 2 : : Making Your Videos Accessible Emily Pittsepitts@uga.edu Sandy MacKaystp@uga.edu youtube/UGAagandenvironmentyoutube/UGAExtension

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