Captioning Report, The
Take a moment to look at the Captioning Community's newsletter that is published on a periodic basis.
Congress Approves Appropriation
by Mark Golden
The U.S. Department of Labor/Health and Human Services' new budget that passed the Congress in mid-December includes a $500,000 appropriation for a pilot/demonstration program to train broadcast captioners. This is just the first in what the association hopes will be a series of successes in getting financial aid to fund improvements in court reporting/captioning education.
NCRA Shifts Focus to Meet the Needs of People Who Are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
by Mark Golden
What is NCRA doing to ensure that there are enough broadcast captioners and CART providers to meet the needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers? The approach taken combines several different initiatives, ranging from student recruitment efforts to implementing new technology for the delivery of reporter education to obtaining federal grants for realtime reporters. Read the text version or print out our one-page downloadable file. This information is geared specifically to CART consumers, so share this information with your current and prospective clients.
New Closed Captioning System for Movies
With a new technology called Cinema Subtitling System, captions are directly projected onto the theater screen. When a movie opens, a disc with the captions is sent to the theater. As it's played back, a video projector superimposes the subtitles on the screen. The disc and the movie are synchronized using timecodes, which takes the specific information that would be in synch with that film frame and puts it directly on the screen.
A New Use for Captioning
A new service, TVEyes.com, proposes to allow users to locate keywords in captioning transcripts.
Ole Miss begins Caption Masters Series With Federal Funds
In 2000, the first year of NCRA’s Federal Initiative,the University of Mississippi received $500,000 for a pilot demonstration program for training realtime writers.
Reporting Schools Turn to Captioning
by Pauletta Morse and Joyce Sheets
Two reporter-training programs have taken the lead in meeting the demand for captioners by initiating specific captioning curriculums.
First Bilingual Captioning Solution
The world's first software-only solution for creating closed captions with multiple languages direct from a nonlinear editor (NLE) was announced by UniSay at the Banff TV Festival in June 2004. The UniSay solution removes the need for expensive hardware encoders and the time required to courier tapes to service providers. Media professionals can now directly create their own captions in-house, which the company says allows for tighter control over budgets and deadlines.