Effective Authoring Closed Captioning Practices Overview
Effective Authoring
Closed-Captioning Process Overview
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If you create a video,
what are the steps to captioning it?
Before we discuss how to caption the video, let's start from the very beginning: you are a subject matter expert, and now you've become a director.
Every video has a story or lesson. Keeping in mind that research shows audience attention spans between 5-10 minutes long, information needs to be delivered in a succinct and organized way. Not only will this help your viewers understand and quickly gather essential information, but this will greatly streamline your captioning workflow. What are the steps? Select Next to begin at Step 1: Determine the Purpose of the Video.
Note: This module assumes an existing video needs compliant captioning, and it is more convenient to quickly caption it yourself. Although you can use 3C Media Solutions or some other captioning vendor to caption videos, creating an effective video and writing a script is still the first step!
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
- Explain how having a script can help with creating closed captions.
- List steps describing how to efficiently caption a video that you have created.