How To Use Closed Captioning To Make Your Video Content Searchable
We have been getting a lot of questions about video search recently. The benefits of making your video content searchable, both across a video archive and within a video, are obvious: as long-form...
View ArticleQuality Closed Captioning Solutions: What To Look For
Here at AST, Quality comes first. You might say it’s our creed. So as we welcome you to the CaptionSync Blog, we’d like to talk about Quality. What it means in terms of technical standards and...
View ArticleEmbedding Captions in MP4 Video
At long last MPEG4 H.264 video has emerged as the pervasive standard for web video. For example, Flash players like JW Player and Flowplayer use .F4V files, iPads, iPods, and iPhones use .M4V files,...
View ArticleDistance Learning and Closed Captioning – The Top 3 Trends
Automatic Sync recently returned from the Distance Learning and Teaching Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, and we were reminded of the growing importance of distance learning in higher education, along...
View ArticleAs New FCC Captioning Regulations Take Effect, Netflix, Amazon Are Finally...
The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (known as “CVAA”) was signed into law by President Obama over five years ago, but the first set of FCC captioning regulations based...
View ArticleProduction Transcripts: When To Use Them, And Why
In addition to our standard transcription, closed captioning, and translation services, AST offers a service called Production Transcripts. This service is a bit different than our transcription and...
View ArticleAwareness For Educational Video Accessibility Reaches the Corner Office
We just returned from our annual trek to the Educause conference. For those that are not familiar with Educause, it is one of the key gatherings in the higher ed community, and an important showcase of...
View ArticleSubtitles: Video Production for a Global Audience
Have you ever traveled to another country and wished that you could understand the language people were speaking, at least enough to grasp the news flash on the television, or the announcements over...
View ArticleDeaf Students are Making Their Voices Heard
January is the season for new year’s resolutions. If you are an educator, your resolution may be to better prepare your students for the workforce in 2013. If you are a college senior, your resolution...
View ArticleThe Importance of Closed Captioning, Demonstrated
We recently came across the video below, which provides yet another powerful demonstration of the importance of closed captioning in your educational videos. Watch the one minute video below, created...
View ArticleYouTube: Captioning Someone Else’s YouTube Videos Using JWPlayer
We’ve had articles about this topic in our CaptionSync Support Center knowledge base for quite awhile, but recently we had a request from our friends at WebAIM to make a publicly available post about...
View ArticleClosed Captioning Cost and Pricing
AST was founded with the goal of making the process of captioning video faster and more affordable. By bringing down closed captioning costs, we make it easier for companies and organizations to make...
View ArticleClosed Captioning and Learning Styles: How They Make A Difference
Editor’s Note: Throughout 2015 we will feature articles written by expert guests, in addition to our usual posts from AST staff. Our first guest article is from Dr. Rebecca Graetz, an Instructional...
View ArticleHarvard, MIT Closed Captioning Lawsuit: Implications for Educators
The New York Times broke the news late last week that Harvard University and MIT are both being sued for failing to provide closed captions for online lectures and other educational video. The...
View ArticleClosed Captioning Law: NAD v Harvard, NAD v MIT Update
What NAD v Harvard and NAD v MIT Tell Us About Compliance for Higher Education Accessibility Law Accessibility laws applicable to higher education have been in place in the United States for decades,...
View ArticleUnderstanding FCC Rule 79.1: Closed Captioning Quality
After a few delays, on March 16, 2015 new FCC rules went into effect that better outline closed captioning quality requirements for video content providers and broadcasters. AST’s mission is to provide...
View ArticleFree Webinar: Universal Design for Improved Learning Outcomes & Equal Access...
In partnership with Brightspace™ by D2L and ReadSpeaker, AST presented a free webinar entitled Equal Access to Education: How Universal Design for Learning can Improve Learning Outcomes. Instructional...
View ArticleGAAD: A Day To Learn And Recognize The Need For Accessibility In Education
In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), AST would like to share some recent articles and webinars that we find to be valuable resources on the topic of accessibility in education,...
View ArticleOnline Teaching Closed Captioning Myth Buster
I had the good fortune to be able to attend the Online Teaching Conference in San Diego this June. AST was a sponsor of the event, which drew about 700 educators from across California, as well as...
View ArticleClosed Captioning Software vs. Closed Captioning Services
Are you considering purchasing a closed captioning software package to caption your videos? If so, there are a few things you need to know before making a commitment. You might be surprised to learn...
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