Captions Summary

The University of California has a contract with 3Play Media to provide high quality, human-edited caption files at a reasonable price. Visit the Processing a Purchase Order for 3Play Media website to set up your department account.

Video content with multiple speakers must also contain "speaker identification" in the caption and transcript files. Please be sure to set up your 3Play Media account so speaker identification is activated.

Overview

Provide transcripts for audio-only recordings and captions for recorded video.

Best Practices

Captions must be accurate (proper punctuation, capitalization, and grammar)
Captions must be synchronized
Captions must include meaningful sound effects such as "Music Playing" or "Applause"
If more than one person is speaking, the caption and transcript files contain speaker identification. This can include the speaker names or Speaker 1, Speaker 2, etc.
Basic caption format option: SRT (SubRip) (OK for lecture videos)
Do not publish publicly visible YouTube videos unless they have human-edited captions. Auto-generated captions are not sufficient
- UC Berkeley community members can make videos available to only the Berkeley.edu domain by using the Private Domain feature. See, YouTube Private Domain for UC Berkeley tutorial.
If needed, use a text editor to edit SRT files. Sublime Text works very well for this

Revising YouTube Auto-Captions

Revising Kaltura Auto-Captions

Leverage YouTube

How to leverage YouTube automatic captioning to caption your media file

Reading Check

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