What are open captions exactly? There are many different types of text that can appear on the screen, from lower thirds to titles to pop-ups. Are open captions graphics or are they an addition to your video file? In this video, author Jeff Greenberg explains what open captions are and how they interact with your video file.
- Where closed captions have a lot of limit,…open captions free that up.…Let's take a look at some of the differences…with open captions.…Open captions' major difference is they are burned in.…There is nothing additional, no sidecars.…They are physically part of the screen,…and there's no way to remove them.…An area that we always talk about with open captions,…it's an area of confusion,…is the difference between open captions and subtitles.…Now, for those of you watching inside of North America,…we tend to break these up like this.…
Subtitles are technically for viewers that can hear.…If I'm watching a foreign film,…I will often see and call those things subtitles.…Captions, on the other hand, closed or open,…are more assumed to be for the hard of hearing or deaf.…Now, in the rest of the world,…they don't make this differentiation.…It's either text on screen or not,…and these open captions are permanently on screen.…But you may find that in conversations…with US providers and US clients…that they have this differentiation…
Author
Jeff I. Greenberg
Released
7/18/2018- Making closed captions and open captions
- Reviewing different transcription services
- Timing scripts to audio verbatim
- Importing and viewing captions
- Navigating the Premiere Pro Caption panel
- Adjusting caption timing
- Creating a caption track
- Formatting captions
- Changing the caption format: 608, 708, and open captions
- Using the Transcriptive plugin to create subtitles
- Exporting the media with embedded captions
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome38s
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Using the exercise files1m 27s
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1. Understanding Closed Captioning
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Why caption video?3m 11s
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What are closed captions?2m 37s
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What are open captions?1m 56s
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2. Transcriptions
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Self-captioning2m 28s
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3. Creating and Formatting Closed Caption Tracks
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Formatting captions2m 36s
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Formatting open captions2m 6s
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4. Using the Transcriptive Plugin to Create Subtitles
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5. Exporting
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Open caption export1m 37s
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Conclusion
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Summary16s
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