Caption video

I have a customer who has asked me about adding captioning to a video and then burn to a DVD. This customer does not hear very well and has a VHS tape that she wants moved to a DVD with sub-titles of what people are saying. I do not know how long the video is. I know I move has limited captioning, but I was wondering if anyone had some better ideas.

Hi
To Sub-title a movie is a tedious job. You get one speed-gain if You are a good typist.
I think that a x10 time need is a minimum of what I can do eg 10 minutes movie
take me about 100 minutes to get Sub-titled.
I do
• Put VHS into player and Pen & Paper or Typewrither/Wordprocessor
• Play and write - I've not seen any program that can Listen in and give a text
from a normal VHS-tape.
There are such programs but they demand a very good sound quality.
• Writedown and paste into Your iMovie VHS copy
• Text needs a cut cmd-T in the video-clip to know where from to start
alt is to use a audio-recorder eg miniDV Camera and using headphones from VHS
then repeating each sentence into this and a new tape.
Now You might got a cleaner audio that may be could be texted by a voicerecognicion program.
Never tested - Rather doubtful
At Commercial broad-casting corp. they often use special trained personal and
programs that can text in real time. Very like some SMS-mobile phone programs.
(Another thought is to try to clean up the VHS-sound. I use a program SoundSoap™
that came bundled with Roxio Toast X-pro.
Using this and combining this result with the original sound can give a clearer
and easier to hear result. Though it needs a lot of fiddling and listning into.
I do
• after got my movie into iMovie Export out in QuickTime expert mode and as .aiff)
• Open SoundSoap and adjust till I feel OK
• Save out and import this into iMovie
• Adjust how much this new audio will influence the end result
Just an idea.)
Yours Bengt W

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bigot - a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices [http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/bigot]
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