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. And clicking the Transcript button compiles all the captions into one concise text file. If you can type, you can make your movies accessible.
Website: MovCaptioner
- Ricky Buchanan
Philippe October 2, 2007 at 2:29 pm
I love this software
.. and I have been looking for such a solutions for years .. thanks a lot !
Pat Besong November 5, 2007 at 2:14 pm
A new version of MovCaptioner has just been released. It has many new features:
• Outputs a DFXP Timed Text Format file that Flash CS3 can use to display captions for Flash video
• Outputs SMIL files that work with QuickTime to display captions
• Outputs transcripts with timestamps or in paragraph form
• Can now easily insert captions between existing captions
• Can now directly edit both the time code and captions in the listbox
• New “Overlap” button extends the beginning and end of an interval by 1 second to pick up words that may get cut off
• Duration of the movie is now displayed next to the Current Time so you’ll know how far from the end you are
• When removing a caption track from a movie, MovCaptioner will automatically reload the movie
• Fixed a crash problem on the application startup caused by recent projects not being where they were before
• No longer displays directories under the Recent Projects menu item
• Cue Next button properly displays the cued timecode where the next caption will begin
• New interface design to better organize the newest features
• As always, free upgrade for previous purchasers
Pat June 3, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Version 2.0 of MovCaptioner was just released today. Please note the NEW URL:
http://www.synchrimedia.com
This version allows you to add line breaks wherever you want for better text readability. It also adds support for import and export of Spruce STL files as well as Adobe Encore captions. Cost is only $25 and all upgrades are free.
rickybuchanan June 3, 2008 at 1:38 pm
@Pat: Thank you! I’ve updated the URL in the original post and I think I’ll cover this again since so many features have changed since I posted this one last year. Thanks for keeping me in the loop – it makes my job a lot easier.
Ricky
Pat September 17, 2008 at 12:32 am
YouTube now supports uploading caption files in .SRT and .SUB format, which MovCaptioner can export. This is an easy way to add closed captions to your YouTube movies.
Ricky Buchanan September 18, 2008 at 7:06 pm
@Pat: That’s fantastic about YouTube! Thank you for letting me know about that.
Frank Lowney October 19, 2009 at 9:44 pm
I’ve spent some time investigating how best to create subtitled .m4v files. The .m4v is an Apple-defined suffix that enables one to have a single, self-contained file with multiple, selectable “soft” subtitle tracks. My ongoing report on that research is here:
http://hercules.gcsu.edu/~flowney/research/MPEG-4/subtitles/
These files display very nicely on the iPhone, iPod touch, iTunes, the QuickTime Player and the AppleTV. VLC and other MPEG-4 compliant players display the subtitles nicely as well.
This can also be done with .mov containers but I don’t treat this in depth.
Patrick May 13, 2010 at 12:13 am
I am really excited to pass along this tip. MovCaptioner works very well with MacSpeech Dictate, the speech-to-text application. This allows you to repeat what you hear in the headphones into your mic and MacSpeech will type the caption into MovCaptioner for you! So very little typing is necessary to create captions. MacSpeech seems to be very accurate as well, even with the minimal voice training. This really speeds up the workflow, and if you’re like me, you don’t get as worn out typing out captions for longer videos. Key is to take your time and repeat clearly the loop that MovCaptioner is presenting, then just hit the Return key to move on to the next loop of the movie. Here is a quick video showing the process…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tcQNEgav58