Closed Captioning
Comprehensive closed captioning and subtitling services, exported in a wide range of formats.
Make your videos compliant, inclusive, and easier to watch anywhere. Our comprehensive services can deliver fast, accurate closed captions, so every viewer can engage, even when the sound is off.
Human Captioning
- FCC and ADA Compliant.
- Manually-placed captions (by a human).
- Pop-on captions (with paint-on captions when needed).
- Wide range of sidecar and embedded output file options.
- Support for long form and short form content.
- Fully integrated with Fig for distribution to U.S. and international broadcasters.
- Fully integrated with Spotloader.
Closed Captioning Embedding Service
If you already have a closed caption or subtitle file, use our Closed Captioning Embedding Service to generate perfect outputs every time, in various professional and web formats. Each output will contain the correct type(s) of captions or subtitles allowed for that specific format.
Closed Captioning Validation Service
Does your existing closed captioning match FCC/FDA best practices and regulations? Did you know there is maximum number of characters that should be displayed per second of video? Did you know that certain frame numbers are invalid in drop-frame mode? Ask us about our Online Closed Captioning Validator—it can analyze your SCC file within seconds, avoid those and other issues, and avoid bad surprises.
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
We also offer ASR solutions tailored to your needs.
Please contact us for more information.
* ASR is not as accurate as human captioning and
is not always FCC and ADA-compliant.
Use Cases: Commercial CC + Distribution Promo CC + Distribution Ministries & Churches 1-800 Programs Localized Programs
Closed captioning your content can bring many benefits to your audiences as well as to your brands, including:
- Legal compliance: Align with FCC and ADA requirements and reduce legal risks.
- Accessibility and inclusion: Reach and support hard-of-hearing audiences.
- Better engagement: Increase viewership, comprehension, and retention, even when the sound is turned off.
- SEO and discoverability: Make online content indexable and searchable to drive organic traffic.
- Global reach: Support ESL audiences and multilingual viewers with captions and subtitles.
- Brand reputation: Demonstrate commitment to accessibility.
Output File Formats
We offer a comprehensive list of options when it comes file formats, whether you need a text-based output or a professional broadcast media format with embedded CEA608 and CEA708 captions. Here are some of the options available:
Sidecar file formats: SCC, SRT, MCC, TTML, plain text, among others.
Embedded media formats: MXF, MPEG-PS/TS, MPEG-4, Quicktime wrappers in various A/V codecs, frame rates, audio layouts, etc.
Integrated Distribution
We can also deliver ready-to-air files to a wide range of television stations and broadcast channels in their required format. We even offer audio remapping and downmixing, and video standards conversion for international content providers and broadcasters.
Distribution Only
Did you caption your content elsewhere? No problem. We also support "bring-your-own-captions" workflows and can assist you with the last-mile steps of embedding and/or distribution.
Use Cases: Commercials CC + Distribution Promo CC + Distribution Ministries & Churches 1-800 Programs Localized Programs
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