NEW (June 2018)
In order to make it easier for everyone to comply with Syracuse University's new ICT Accessibility policy, ITS is currently working with Automatic Sync Technologies (AST) as a preferred vendor for providing captioning and transcription services.
Syracuse University and AST have worked together for over 12 years to offer high-quality, low-cost captioning services through integration with Ensemble Video. With CaptionSync, AST services can now be incorporated into the workflow for captioning a wide variety of video formats for other platforms, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Blackboard.
See Captioning With AST/CaptionSync (*requires login) for more information if:
• You have a video or audio file that needs captions.
• You have a video on your YouTube or Vimeo channel that needs captions.
• You have a video in Ensemble that needs captions.
• You have a video that will require audio description.
• You would like to have a YouTube or Vimeo video that you do NOT own captioned.
• You need live captioning for an event.
About Captioning
- Captions: Improving Access to Postsecondary Education, a video from the University of Washington
- Video Captioning: When is it required? (Video Captioning Decision Tree)
- Guidelines for Captioning
About Cart Services
About Audio Description
- Audio description (sometimes referred to as Described Video) is provided by a trained describer that provides descriptions of the visual components of the video. Audio description makes video accessible to blind/visually-impaired persons who would otherwise miss out on information presented visually. This information is synchronized with the video, but provided in a separate sound track.
- For a full description and example of audio description, see the Penn State whitepaper titled An Introduction to Audio Description in Higher Education Video Content
Copyright considerations
- If you are captioning a video created by someone else, determine if your purpose qualifies for Fair Use
- Copyright Law vs Accessibility Law: Is it Fair Use to Caption Video you Don't Own? (3PlayMedia, April 9, 2015)
Captioning Ensemble Videos
- How to Caption Ensemble Content with Automatic Sync (AST) Integration
- Captioning with Ensemble and Rev
Captioning Vendors
- 3PlayMedia
- Audioeyes LLC
- Caption Advantage, LLC
- AMAC - Captioning and Described Media Services
- SpeakerText
Do-It-Yourself
- Free Tools for Captioning YouTube Videos (Terrill Thompson, University of Washington)
- Using YouTube, Express Scribe and other tools (Ken Petri, Ohio State University)
- How to Add Closed Captions & Subtitles to Facebook Videos
- Multi-media Universally Designed (The ACCESS Project, Colorado State University) includes Tutorials
- Find resources for creating your own Audio Descriptions at The Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center.
- videos showing best practices for creating your own video descriptions
- video description software
- standards and guidelines
- YouDescribe - submit videos for audio description or do it yourself