Closed Captioning Services

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Closed Captioning Services

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Broad Cast Captioning

Professional closed captioning services for broadcast film, television, documentaries and advertisements. Film closed caption services

.STL, .ESY, .X32, .PAC, .SAMI, .SMIL, .CIN, .AYA, .890, .XIF, .CIP, .RAC, .CHK, .CAP, .ULT, .USF, .ST4, .ST7 and more…

SRT, .VTT, .XML, .DFXP, EBU-TT-D, EBU-TT, SCC, .SSA, .PSB, .RT,  .TTXT, .SSF, .ASS, .USF and more…

MKV, .MXF, .MP4, .WMV, .MPEG-1, .DV, .WEBM, .MOV, .MPEG-2, .DIVX, .P4V, .VOB, .AVI, .XVID, .AXF, .OGV, and more

STANDARD CAPTIONING GUIDELINES

Min: 1 second / caption
Max: 7 seconds / caption

42 characters maximum per caption

Verbatim, No Sound Cues and Speaker Identification

2 frames (regardless of frame rate)

2 Lines Maximum

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Captioning for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

We provide subtitles and closed captioning services for a range of different videos. These include:

Closed caption services for the deaf and hard of hearing are incredibly important in making video content accessible not only to the deaf but indeed, anyone placed in a situation where hearing ability or audio quality is compromised. We provide professional, high quality, accurate closed captions for the deaf, working with videos across a wide range of media and industry specialisms.

 

Closed Captions Include:

  • Description of sound effects
  • Colour contrast of onscreen text
  • Identification of speakers
  • Intelligent verbatim style for good readability
  • Music indicated by the ‘#’ symbol
  • Off-screen speakers to be included
  • Tone of voice conveyed through punctuation
  • Speech style described through the use of closed brackets.