EZCaption 6.0 -- Rich Media Captions
If you are looking for a way to caption rich media presentations, EZCaption can help.
When you install the software, the Shared Documents folder on your computer will have a new folder called EZCaption. In that folder is another folder called Media, which contains a file called intro.wmv. The file intro.wmv is a short, captioned video (make sure captioning is on in your Windows Media Player) that was prepared using EZCaption 6.0. The script (intro.ezc) is also saved in the EZCaption | Media folder.
To produce the caption data for intro.wmv, we followed thse steps:
- Save it in one of the EZCaption supported formats. We used WMV (Windows Media Player), but files for QuickTime, RealPlayer, and Flash may be used as well.
- Commit the script for your video to a text file or word processor document.
- Time the script by pressing F6.
- Parse the script by pressing F9 or F10 (search for 'parse' in the program's built-in Help utility).
- Play the video while using Train Here (F4)
- Press the SPACE bar each time a new line of captions is to be fed.
- When training is completed (you may wish to save your script), press F5.
- Select the template (we selected SMITemplate)
Note: The templates are stored in your computer's Shared Documents folder in a folder called EZCaption | Templates.
- Select the Media file and set the location of the Destination file along with other settings. Typically, the destination can be the same folder the media file is located in.
- When you press the OK button, your computer will only take a few seconds to create the caption files that correspond to your video (in the case of our example, EZCaption created two files in the same folder as intro.wmv: intro.smi, and intro.wvx.
For further information or assistance, check out the built-in Help utility, or online Help resources http://www.ezcaption.net/help/ or contact our technical support desk at 608-785-1415 Monday thru Friday, 8am to 5pm CT.
- To learn how to turn captions on in Windows Media Player on your machine, click here.
- To view a sample Windows Media Player video with captions, click here.
