While I'm going on about WGBH NCAM's web video captioning success with its industry-wide coalition, I should also mention their recent introduction of a software utility that makes it easy to create captioned Adobe Flash videos. This gives me an excuse to brag: at my consulting company's site, Aquarius Advisers LLC, we've had captioning on our Flash videos for two years now. It wasn't easy back then, but we had the assistance of a brilliant digital animator, Dave Counts, whose far-left site TooStupidToBePresident.com has won him fame and infamy as one of the most creative digital animators and satirists in the country. He figured out how to put Flash captions on our site then, but WGBH NCAM has made it easy with its new software utility, so mere mortals can make it happen now.
Posted by David at 04:13 PM on Oct 5, 2007 in CAPTIONING, TECHNOLOGY
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Can somebody tell me why dotSUB is overlooked on that forum? It seems to me that Michael Smolens and his group are doing some very forward-thinking stuff, combining accessibility with a flat world, captioning AND translation. But they haven't been included in the "industry-wide" coalition, and seem to be overlooked.
That's fantastic. If I'm not mistaken, YouTube is built on Flash. I hope that they (or Vimeo or whomever) adds this functionality to the upload process, so that people can caption videos as they post them online.
