This information here is provided free, without support or warranty. My only interest in spending hours writing this article is to help other producers who like me, are trying to figure out how to do something seemingly difficult and unknown–the art of adding text to video. I paid the full $99 for the software and put it to work. I have no vested interest in the software or the company. I have no relationship with SynchriMedia, the developer of MovieCaptioner. It’s an unknown, surprisingly, and I hope that this article lets other producers find out about it more easily. Fortunately this software can be used by the single producer on a budget, or a large megacompany with an unlimited budget. Excited, I read all the information and watched the videos at their website. I was about to give up and use a service until a friend told me about another software application he found for the Mac & PC called MovieCaptioner (previously called MovCaptioner) from SynchriMedia. If you are a small video producer or a University this is not an option. Talk about highway robbery and taking advantage of a FCC broadcast requirement. I’m sure they are working very hard to justify that price tag, but c’mon–$7k? Really? I don’t know about you, but I’ve never paid that much money for any software program or a computer for that matter, and I’ve been computing since the days of the Commodore PET. I won’t mention the name of the software, but it runs on a Mac. My previous search turned up software that cost in the neighborhood of $7,000. How hard and expensive could it really be? As you’ll soon learn, it’s not hard or expensive at all. Also consider the turnaround time is slow when relying on an outside service.Īfter being quite disgusted at the thought of using a service, I looked into the option of transcribing my own show in-house using software. If you’re on a budget too, this isn’t easy to stomach. That’s an extra $2,000 or more just to meet a FCC requirement for broadcast. Factor in the cost of shipping, your media, and the number of videos you have (in my case it’s 12 per season). I started looking into these services only to find prices that ranged $100-200 per 22-minute episode. You’d ship them your videos (digital or tape) and they would pay a transcriber to listen to every spoken word in your content and type those words into a software program that matches the time code of your video. My first knee-jerk reaction was to call upon other producers to ask how they did it. If you are in the same situation I was in a few months ago when I first found out that I had to include closed captioning for your video content, you are overwhelmed with information and shocked at the cost of doing this. And, depending on their age and method of broadcast you may be required to send in your video content with closed captioning (CC). As you explore your options for broadcast, you will quickly find that each channel/network has different requirements. Making a commitment to going from a variable length video series to a half-hour (22 minute) episode series is quite an undertaking. Making videos for online is simple enough, but at some point you might want to take your content to television like I have with Motorz.
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