ClosedCaption maker

822 Guilford Avenue #148 • Baltimore, MD  21202

E-mail: wGallant@CCmaker.com • Web Site: www.CCmaker.com

1-800-527-0551

 

 

FCC Requires 100% captioning starting 1/1/06.

We sell an entry level closed-captioning system.

See details below, system is called ADDrollupCC

 

 

We add closed-captions to the video you produce

 

Church & 30-minute Infomercials:  $200 for half-hour program.

Includes transcribing, tape, 2nd day Fedex shipping.

We do these a special way to reduce manpower; thus lower cost (We call it “just do it”).

We transcribe it, format the text, and then create the CC master.

Meets FCC captioning requirements.

 

TV Spots

TV Spots are $100 per spot (:10 to :60); plus $50 for tapestock and shipping.

Script must be supplied on disk or emailed. Turnaround is two business days.

 

Music Videos

Music Videos (up to 5 minutes) are $175, includes BetaSP/DVcam videotape and shipping.

Script must be supplied on disk. Additional BetaSP/DVcam copy is $35 (includes tape).

(We do not support DigiBeta decks)

 

Professional, high-quality captioning

Cost is $6 per video minute plus $50; includes encoding, videotape, and 2nd day FedEx.

Client will be sent an open-captioned VHS proof copy at no charge.

Client sends us a professionally produced “master video” on BetaSP, DV/DVcam, or DVCpro25

and we create a closed-captioned professional master on BetaSP or DVcam using roll-up captions.

 

Example:  A ten minute video using ‘roll-up captions’ would cost $110.

Add $2/minute if verbatim script is not supplied.

Add $4/minute if pop-up captions are used instead of roll-up captions.

 

 

 

TECHNICAL DETAILS FOR CAPTIONING

Our encoder (hardware which adds the captions on line-21) uses component video in/out.

DV formats: we can accept DV, DVcam, DVCpro25 and master to DVcam. (all are small or large cassettes).

 


“Do your own Captioning”

(units now in-stock!)

 

 

ADDrollupCC (post-production only)          $2,200 (hardware & software)

 

This closed-captioning system integrates into your editing system and adds ‘rollup’ type captions to the video you produce. ADDrollupCC was designed to meet the closed-caption needs of a church, 30-minute infomercials, or in-house training videos; can be upgraded to the full ADDrollupCC_TC system.

ADDrollupCC adds line-21 closed-captions as you copy the video from your EditingSystem/Deck to your Record Deck.

 

ADDrollupCC includes a professional line-21 closed-caption encoder manufactured by Link Electronics; encoder supports composite, s-vhs, and component video. The encoder connects between your EditingSystem/Deck and your Record Deck. We suggest starting with ADDrollupCC and upgrade to the full ADDrollupCC_TC if needed (few clients have upgraded!!!).

 

 

ADDrollupCC_TC           $4,000 (hardware & software)

This system gives you more control over the captioning process. The system requires access to timecode which enables you to correct script/timing errors. It is a software upgrade from ADDrollupCC.

 

To download ADDrollupCC Demo, right click and do a 'Save Target As',

(you must unzip the file and then do the install)

 

To download a diagram of the system,
right click and do a 'Save Target As'; this is a pdf file.

 

 

Transcribing Service:

We do 'draft level' transcribing for $50 per half-hour.

You use the Internet to send us an mp3/wma of the audio and we email back a text file.

 

 

Churches in these cities are using ADDrollupCC

 

Augusta (GA) *** Ball Ground (GA) *** Bedford (TX) *** Bronx (NY) *** Clinton (IA) *** Columbus (GA) *** Des Moines (IA) *** Duluth (GA) *** El Paso (TX) *** Goose Greek (SC) *** Harrisonburg (VA) *** Hattiesburg (MS) *** Hinesville (GA) *** Knoxville (TN) *** Lansing (MI) *** Laurel (MD) *** Midland (TX) *** Odessa (TX) *** Pennsauken (NJ) *** Peoria (IL) *** Raleigh (NC) *** Spartanburg (SC) *** Vienna (WV) *** W. Hurley (NY) *** Waldorf (MD) *** Wichita (KS)

 

 


Add Captions to streaming video on the web!

(Windows Media Video, Quicktime, RealOne)

 

Captioning Windows Media Video

You put the video up on your server and we create the companion captioning file for the player.

 

Take a look at our demo using the Windows Media Player: (you need to turn captions ‘on’ on the WMP)

(“Right-click and “open in new window”) Do not double-click here.

 

Run Windows Media Player with demo 

 

Run Video on IE page using the Windows Media Player.

 

 

Run Flash Video (flv) with captions   (works, still under development 11/07)  

 

 

 

·                    If you are on a MAC or have problems, email me and I’ll send you a CD of these files.

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$5 per minute of video; client supplies video file and a script file.

       Add $2/minute if verbatim script is not supplied.

       (Intro price for ‘course content videos’ for colleges; $1 minute of video.)

       (Client supplies WMV file; add $2/minute if word-for-word script is not supplied.)

 

 

iTunes & IPod Captioning   (new 9/25/06)

This link will download a zipped file.
                        www.ccmakerftp.com/QT_iTunes_IPod2.zip
This captioned file will work with Quicktime (Mac/Pc) or iTunes (Mac/Pc)

plus you can download it to an IPod. The text is very readable on an IPod.

 

 


Add Subtitles to DVDs using DVDStudioPro

 

Adding subtitles to a DVD you create in DVDStudioPro is not fun.

DVDStudioPro includes a subtitle editor but the process of using it is painfully slow.

You create a subtitle block, set the in/out timecode points, check the sync, then move onto the next subtitle block. We just did the subtitling for a 20-minute DVD – it contained 316 subtitle blocks!

 

A better and more cost effective way is for you to FTP us your videos in mp4, we create a STL subtitle file which you import onto a subtitle track. You still have to make minor adjustments to some of the in/out points. You have the same options as if you had manually created the subtitles; font, font size, color, position (left/right/center), timecode in/out points.

 

We have a MAC with DVDStudioPro so that we can fully test the STL file before sending it to the client.  We are a PC shop but purchased this system because there are so many horror stories on the Internet concerning DVDStudioPro and subtitles.

 

If you have an interest in this service, email me and I’ll email you a ‘test’ STL file with instruction on how to place it on the subtitle track. You can use any video, the demo just illustrates how easy it is to use a STL subtitle file.

 

 

 

$7 per minute of video; client supplies mp4 file and a script file.

$50 minimum.

 


“VHS videotapes used in the Classroom”

 

This unique college/university service was designed to make existing VHS videos in your school’s library accessible to a deaf/hoh student. Client sends us a non-captioned VHS videotape and we return it unaltered plus an open-captioned DVD. You can use this DVD to make VHS copies.

 

Cost is $4 per video minute which includes transcribing, videotape; add $15 for shipping.

We use roll-up type captions; “The History Channel” uses this format for their evening programming.
Thus, a 30-minute video is exactly $135 ($4*30 plus $15).

 

The captions roll-up on the top of the screen OR on the bottom of the screen.

 

            (K-12 only, we are trying a new process at a lower cost !!!)       new 1/07

 


Our Customers

 

Home Depot (GA) *** DuPont (DE) *** Los Alamos Nat'l Lab (NM) *** USPS (TN, IL, MA, ME) *** NY Bar Association (NY) *** Colonial Insurance (SC) *** Unum Insurance Company (ME) *** I-Car Tech Ctr (WI) *** Sanders/Lockheed (NH) *** US Dept Interior/BOR (ID) *** Albany Medical Center (NY) *** BAE Systems (NH) *** WNY Indep Living Project (NY)

 

 

University at Buffalo/Suny CAT/UB (NY) *** University of New Hampshire (NH) *** Bowdoin College (ME) *** University of Maine (ME) *** City College (NY) *** University of New Mexico (NM) *** Fitchburg State College (MA) *** SW Texas State University (TX) *** San Diego City College (CA) *** University of WI - Extension (WI) *** Dartmouth College (NH) *** Salish Kootenai College (MT) *** NYU (NY) *** Univ of Iowa *** Marin CC (CA) *** CAL State – San Marcos *** Univ of DE *** Temple Univ (PA) *** NE Univ (MA) *** Penn State (PA) *** UC Berkeley (CA) *** San Diego State (CA) *** CSU – Chico *** Univ of VT *** Marymount Univ (VA) *** MSU – Morehead (MN) *** College of the Holy Cross (MA) *** Renton Tech College (WA) *** American Univ (DC) *** Madonna Univ (MI) *** College of the Redwoods (CA)

 

Plus many small video production companies from Maine to California.


 

Contact

ClosedCaption Maker

822 Guilford Avenue,  #148

Baltimore, MD 21202

 

1-800-527-0551

 

Website: www.CCmaker.com

E-Mail: wGallant@CCmaker.com

 

Website Created March 4, 1996 … Updated Mar  25, 2008