Comments on: Captioning your videos #5: YouTube (but not quite yet)

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:21:02 +0000

Mac users can use MovCaptioner to create .SUB and .SRT files easily for use with YouTube. Cost for s/w is only $25. Go to http://www.synchrimedia.com to download the demo version.

By: Javier

Javier — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:53:38 +0000

http://TubeCaption.com allows users to add video captions to any YouTube video. Find a youtube video and use the editor to add captions. The editor is a lot better than most sites out there and the service is free. TubeCaption allows users to make money by adding captions to online videos by sharing add revenue.

By: Seeking successful implementation of YouTube captions | Universally Designed

Sat, 17 May 2008 15:48:42 +0000

[...] edit videos with text, audio, graphics, overlays, effects, and transitions with no installation. The Proud Geek blog and other user reviews reflected the fact that the new tool was hard to use, quite buggy and [...]

By: proudgeek

proudgeek — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:02:22 +0000

Hello Stephen — thanks for your comment! I ended up doing (so far!) eight “captioning” posts, with the last one at:

http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/09/17/easiest-way-to-subtitle-and-show-your-videos-overstream-google-video/

But to see a summary, go to the one before that:

http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/07/02/captioning-your-videos-7-opencaptionscom/

Hope this helps.

By: Stephen Hopson

Stephen Hopson — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:43:51 +0000

This was a very interesting and intriguing post because I have been trying to find a way to caption my YouTube and other videos at my blog (you can see one example here:

http://www.adversityuniversityblog.com/2007/05/14/actual-flight-footage-for-flight-to-hartford/

I’m deaf with a blog at Adversity University (see link attached to my name above). I want to provide captioning for the benefit of some of my clients and subscribers.

So your post was very interesting. I didn’t see a box on your comment page where I could subscribe to this particular article in case you have new updates.

So I hope you’ll email me with updates from time to time on this subject!

Stephen Hopson

By: Grant W Laird Jr

Grant W Laird Jr — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:53:45 +0000

Did you try out http://www.photobucket.com ?

They have same remixer program as youtube…Hmmm.

gwlj

By: proudgeek

proudgeek — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:31:27 +0000

Hi Christian — you raise a very good point about having applications on the computer rather than doing it on the web. That’s why I’ve reviewed two computer programs so far (Windows Movie Maker and Subtitles Workshop) thus far, and plan on reviewing others as well. Sometimes it’s more convenient to just upload smaller videos and edit it online, than it is to edit them using bulky computer programs. Sometimes people always prefer computer programs. So, it’s interesting to see the various options we have out there — where only a year or two ago, we only had one or two options. Hooray!

By: Christian Vogler

Christian Vogler — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:17:16 +0000

I just pointed this out, because there exists a slew of good applications that can create and edit subtitles, with far much less fuss than a web-based application.

To me the question is basically: why would someone use a web application to do video editing, especially considering that video in general is one of the most bandwidth-consuming applications that we can think of. That is not to say that the concept is not cool (it is), but what happened to using the best tool for the job?

By: proudgeek

proudgeek — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:54:47 +0000

Thanks, Christian and Bill. Yes, that’s how I saw this too — Google Video supports the uploading of separate captioning files, but still doesn’t support actually editing / inserting captions onto videos through the same website.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:53:34 +0000

Overstream is still the only one I am comfortable with.

Christian,
If I understood the Google Video captioning, it allowed the upload of captions, not the editing. If this is Not true, I would love to see how to do it.