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Google Video with Captioned

18 02 2007

Last September 2006, Google Video announced that it now offers closed caption support. I see more people start using this feature – probably not as many as I hope but its good start since it’s only six months old.

In the past, Google Video used to have CC list on their front page. It’s not there anymore and you won’t find link anywhere. Lucky, I did bookmarked it before and found it. It goes to http://video.google.com/videocaptioned.

Well, if you look at captioned category, its only three pages long. (10 videos each page) There’s a lot more out there if you type “captioned” in Google Video search box. (Not 100% accuracy — some are open captioned, too) I noticed it hasn’t updated at all – look like maybe they should fix their system whenever video offers CC, it should automatically add at captioned category.

Also, it would be nice if they add formal category for captioned group similar to sports, entertainment, popular, etc. It should show under “more” list.

I’ve emailed to Google Video Team about it today. I hope they will follow it up and make some adjustment in near future. If you can, please contact them at video-support@google.com and tell them about it!

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Date : 18 February 2007
Categories : caption, vblog

4 responses to “Google Video with Captioned”

18 02 2007: SKE (05:58:39) :

Thanks for your explaining but I already tried that for 4 days. I got burnt out.

Please do email me personally and I will explain to you more about my frustrating with the captioned work alone myself. I am glad that you did brought up with this caption issues but I cannot do the captioning myself anymore because I felt so uncomfortable with captioning and plus working too much captioning job alone.

Also I found out I need to clean more files from my PC and need to learn how to download my video file from hard drive to my CD disk when I have more time.

Thanks, SKE
18 02 2007: Jay (07:27:02) :

Hi,

Although I doubt I would caption my vlogs — not that its because its time consuming — but because I don’t like captioning on me. However I am sure there would be situations where captioning makes sense.

I have given it a try — the google side of it is easy, but the captioning side of it isn’t — I downloaded Subtitling Workshop and fiddled around it — it appears to work, but it pretty much scared me away.

Please make your response to SKE public if you are sending her information or your experience on captioning. I am sure there are folks out there who wants to learn/know as well.
18 02 2007: Christian (08:41:03) :

Do a search in Google video for ’subtitled.’ You’ll find a lot of subtitled stuff. Especially music videos.
19 02 2007: Grant W Laird Jr (06:57:33) :

SKE, to tell you truth — there’s no perfect subtitle or caption solution right now for your vlog right now. What’s more, I haven’t tried it out myself yet but I promise myself I need to give it a try soon. Actually, I’ve played few in the past but I am not 100% satisfied with it.

I wouldn’t mind have Ben Voss helped out with transcript then you can adjust it to become subtitle — it is possible and less time consuming. That’s my next plan.

Meantime, I think you are doing just fine without subtitle/caption.