MovCaptioner keeps repeating a segment of the movie until you are done typing what you hear. Just hit the Return key and it will save your caption and automatically advance to the next few seconds of the movie, allowing you to zip through your captioning tasks in no time flat.You don’t need to be a QuickTime guru, either. The caption track is added automatically with the click of a button.
I wrote about MovCaptioner before, but there have been significant improvements in both the interface and in the type of captions MovCaptioner can create. The website now lists all these types:
- QuickTime text, unicode and SMIL
- SMIL Caption Tracks
- Flash Caption Tracks
- SubRip SRT and SubViewer SUB Caption Tracks
- Spruce STL (imports into DVD Studio Pro)
- Adobe Encore Caption Tracks
- SAMI Caption Tracks (for use with Windows Media)
- Transcripts in Paragraph Form or Line-by-line With Timestamps
I think the creation of Flash captions is especially exciting, given the number of uncaptioned Flash movies out there on the internet. Now that Flash supports simple captioning, and programs like MovCaptioner let captioning be done for such a low price, there’s absolutely no reason not to caption Flash movies and tutorials you make for your website.
Website: MovCaptioner
- Ricky Buchanan
Virginia June 4, 2008 at 1:26 am
This is a great tool. Thanks for the tip.
Jessica January 23, 2009 at 5:55 am
Can I purchase this program to caption movies/TV shows for my deaf niece or is there any easier way? iTunes doesn’t offer many movies captioned that she can enjoy and there are no TV shows.
Ricky Buchanan January 26, 2009 at 12:22 am
@Jessica: If you need to caption things yourself, I suggest you start by trying CapScribe – it’s a free program so it’s less risky to your pocketbook!
Another approach would be to search for existing English subtitle files online and to use programs like these Subtitle Utilities to clean them up if needed. You can use search sites like http://www.free-subtitles.org/ to find English subtitles for quite a lot of stuff that’s originally in English also. Best of luck.
Patrick November 27, 2009 at 8:17 am
MovCaptioner 3.3 has just been released. It can now import and export SCC captions, so if you need to make captions for iPods you can now do that as well. The SCC file can also be imported into Final Cut 7 so you can output line 21 captions for your video projects. There are many other new features as well. All future upgrades are free to people who purchase it. Price is $39.95.