Re: EPUB videos

I did mean to mention that the YouTube-generated captions needed editing, particularly for phrasing and sentence structure. My job was relatively brief, so not a big deal.

I’ll look at CADET next go-round.


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> On Jul 11, 2018, at 2:20 PM, Madeleine Rothberg <madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org> wrote:
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> If you are looking for a way to author captions, take a look at CADET, which is our free, downloadable captioning and description authoring software. You can use it to generate VTT files.
> https://www.wgbh.org/foundation/what-we-do/ncam/cadet <https://www.wgbh.org/foundation/what-we-do/ncam/cadet>
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> I caution against using the auto-created captions that YouTube offers. They are poorly structured and often contain inaccuracies. For short clips it isn't a lot of work to type accurate captions yourself. If you have a large amount of video that needs captioning, there are many agencies that can provide captions that will be much better than the auto-captions.
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> However, it sounds like from Jeff Buehler's note that there is still no way to add the VTT to the EPUB except to hand edit the HTML.
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> -Madeleine
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> Madeleine Rothberg
> Senior Subject Matter Expert
> National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH
> http://ncam.wgbh.org <http://ncam.wgbh.org/>
> madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org <mailto:madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org>
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> From: Kevin Callahan <Kevin@bngobooks.com <mailto:Kevin@bngobooks.com>>
> Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 2:06 PM
> To: Madeleine Rothberg <madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org <mailto:madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org>>
> Cc: sirisha gubba <nsfsiri2014@gmail.com <mailto:nsfsiri2014@gmail.com>>, "public-epub3@w3.org <mailto:public-epub3@w3.org>" <public-epub3@w3.org <mailto:public-epub3@w3.org>>
> Subject: Re: EPUB videos
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> I’ve uploaded video to YouTube, which can create captions. 
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> Then, I downloaded the captions and combined them with the video using Wondershare Video Converter.
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> You can create captions in YouTube, but you can’t embed them and then download the captioned video. You can only create the captioning, then download as a text file.
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> All this is on the Mac.
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> KEVIN CALLAHAN
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> 212 741-0296
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>> On Jul 11, 2018, at 1:42 PM, Madeleine Rothberg <madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org <mailto:madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org>> wrote:
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>> Hi Siri,
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>> We tried this a year or so ago and found that adding captions to video in epub required hand-editing the HTML of the epub file. However, I'd be thrilled to hear if anyone knows of better solutions that have come along.
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>> -Madeleine
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>> -- 
>> Madeleine Rothberg
>> Senior Subject Matter Expert
>> National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH
>> http://ncam.wgbh.org <http://ncam.wgbh.org/>
>> madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org <mailto:madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org>
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>> From: sirisha gubba <nsfsiri2014@gmail.com <mailto:nsfsiri2014@gmail.com>>
>> Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 7:46 PM
>> To: "public-epub3@w3.org <mailto:public-epub3@w3.org>" <public-epub3@w3.org <mailto:public-epub3@w3.org>>
>> Subject: EPUB videos
>> Resent-From: <public-epub3@w3.org <mailto:public-epub3@w3.org>>
>> Resent-Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 7:45 PM
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>> Hi,
>> I have couple of questions regarding videos in EPUB file.
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>> 1) In windows:
>>       Using Sigil I tried to embed mp4 files to an EPUB file.
>>       I am not able to embed the video. 
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>> This approach works on MAC.
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>> Can you please advise how I can embed mp4 files to an EPUB file in windows?
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>> 2) How can we add captions and audio description  to the embedded video?
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>> Thank you all for you input!!
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>> Thanks,
>> Siri
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