Create Onscreen Captions/Subtitles for Online Video
Monday, October 5th, 2009 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kJust stumbled on this today:
Overstream.net is a free service where you can create a subtitle file for an existing video (currently including videos hosted at YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, and more).
You use Javascript and Flash in a web interface to author the subtitle text (which can be in any Unicode-supported language). Overstream stores the subtitle file with a link to the video source; you send a link to the Overstream file and both are displayed simultaneously. (You can also download the subtitle file for later user, although I know zero about the format issues involved.)
They have thousands of subtitled videos (not all in English), a chatty blog, and they've just launched a subtitling/captioning service. (Which makes total sense, as more educators use web-hosted content in their lessons, Overstream offers a way to create captions and meet USA section 508 accessibility without having a captioner in-house.
I'm definitely gonna check this out for the next video I link to!
Overstream.net is a free service where you can create a subtitle file for an existing video (currently including videos hosted at YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, and more).
You use Javascript and Flash in a web interface to author the subtitle text (which can be in any Unicode-supported language). Overstream stores the subtitle file with a link to the video source; you send a link to the Overstream file and both are displayed simultaneously. (You can also download the subtitle file for later user, although I know zero about the format issues involved.)
They have thousands of subtitled videos (not all in English), a chatty blog, and they've just launched a subtitling/captioning service. (Which makes total sense, as more educators use web-hosted content in their lessons, Overstream offers a way to create captions and meet USA section 508 accessibility without having a captioner in-house.
I'm definitely gonna check this out for the next video I link to!
