Overview
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Learn how to increase the accessibility and discoverability of your videos. Add captions and transcripts using popular video editing tools such as Premiere Pro.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Why accessible video matters
- Understanding visual impairment
- Understanding hearing impairment
- What does "508 compliant" mean?
- Working with script files and preparing them for captioning
- Using a transcriptionist for generating compatible transcripts
- Using software to generate transcripts
- An overview of caption formats
- What is descriptive audio?
- When should you use descriptive audio?
- Improving visual contrast for graphics
- Closed captions vs. open captions: When should you use them?
- Who benefits from captions?
- Additional benefits with captioning for social media
- Attaching captions in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Editing captions in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Embedding captions in an export with Adobe Premiere Pro
- Exporting captions as a sidecar file from Adobe Premiere Pro
- Advanced options with Adobe Media Encoder
- Setting up speech engines with Transcriptive
- Creating transcripts with Transcriptive
- Conforming transcripts to an edit with Transcriptive
- Advanced workflows
- Exporting transcripts
- Attaching captions in Final Cut Pro X
- Editing captions in Final Cut Pro X
- Exporting video for broadcast and captions in a file with Final Cut Pro X
- Exporting video for the web and captions as a sidecar file from Final Cut Pro X
- Including a transcript with a video
- Uploading captions to YouTube
- Editing captions on a YouTube video
- Uploading captions to Facebook
- Next steps
