As a movie maker, you want your audience to be as broad as possible, and this includes hearing impaired folks! But as talented as you are with respect to moviemaking, you don't know a thing about how to introduce movie captions to your films. Well, today, you can stop trying to learn and just pick up a copy of MovieCaptioner!
MovieCaptioner is an easy way to add captions to your movies quickly and accurately! With MovieCaptioner, just load your movie and start adding captions to match 4 second loops that play at the press of a button. Then, once you're done, export your captions to one of 19 different formats, ensuring that no matter where your movie goes, the captions will go along with it! There's a reason why so many government agencies, universities, and television show production companies are already using this fantastic tool.
In addition to captions, you can also use MovieCaptioner to import existing transcripts as captions, and existing caption-formatted files while preserving the timecode!
Please note: MovieCaptioner requires Mac OS X 10.5 (or better) and QuickTime 7 must also be installed (available on your Snow Leopard install disk). Upgrading to QuickTime 7 Pro will be necessary in order to export embedded caption formats.
Review Written by Derek Lee
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- Add captions to your movies quickly and accurately.
- Get started quickly by entering captions to match 4 second loops of video.
- Export captions to any one of 19 different formats.
- Import existing transcripts and caption files.
- Preserve the timecode while importing caption files.
- You can download and install a free trial of this software before purchasing
- Download available for: Mac OS X 10.4 and later
- Get all this at a discounted price!
- After you purchase MovieCaptioner it may be used indefinitely.
- MovieCaptioner is licensed per user, so if more people are going to use MovieCaptioner you will need to purchase additional copies.
- Transfer of a license to another owned computer is allowed.
- Email license activation is required with a hardware footprint, and unlimited installations per footprint. what's this?
- Upgrades to future versions of the software will be free for the lifetime of the product.
- Support is provided for the lifetime of the product.
- No return policy.
- Review the Full License details for downloading and installing this software.
- Prices do not necessarily include taxes, which will vary by country.
- Review what others have to say...
- “By luck, I came across a company called Synchrimedia that had a product called MovieCaptioner. They claimed to make something called an SCC file, which could then be injected into your MPEG-2 with Apple's Compressor (part of the Final Cut Studio). And best of all, the program was only $99. Considering the $7,000 software didn't work for me, I didn't have much faith in the cheaper program. So how did it work? Like a charm.”- Daniel, light-sound-magic.blogspot.com
- “If you are in the same situation I was in a few months ago when I first found out that I had to include closed captioning for your video content, you are overwhelmed with information and shocked at the cost of doing this. My first knee-jerk reaction was to call upon other producers to ask how they did it. All of them used a third party service. You’d ship them your videos (digital or tape) and they would pay a transcriber to listen to every spoken word in your content and type those words into a software program that matches the time code of your video. A very daunting task, indeed.
I started looking into these services only to find prices that ranged $100-200 per 22-minute episode. Factor in the cost of shipping, your media, and the number of videos you have (in my case it’s 12 per season). That’s an extra $2,000 or more just to meet a FCC requirement for broadcast. If you’re on a budget too, this isn’t easy to stomach. Also consider the turnaround time is slow when relying on an outside service.
After being quite disgusted at the thought of using a service, I looked into the option of transcribing my own show in-house using software. How hard and expensive could it really be? As you’ll soon learn, it’s not hard or expensive at all. My previous search turned up software that cost in the neighborhood of $7,000. That’s right… seven thousand dollars. I won’t mention the name of the software, but it runs on a Mac. [rant on] I’m sure they are working very hard to justify that price tag, but c’mon–$7k? Really? I don’t know about you, but I’ve never paid that much money for any software program or a computer for that matter, and I’ve been computing since the days of the Commodore PET. Talk about highway robbery and taking advantage of a FCC broadcast requirement. If you are a small video producer or a University this is not an option. Moving on! [rant off]
I was about to give up and use a service until a friend told me about another software application he found for the Mac called MovieCaptioner (previously called MovCaptioner) from SynchriMedia. The price? $99. Excited, I read all the information and watched the videos at their website. Fortunately this software can be used by the single producer on a budget, or a large megacompany with an unlimited budget. It’s an unknown, surprisingly, and I hope that this article lets other producers find out about it more easily.”- Chris Duke, http://chrisduke.tv/973/close-captioning-videos
- “I'm so sorry it took me so long to respond to you, but I just wanted to let you know that the new version you sent to me where I could could drop-frame did the trick and I was able to caption perfectly after that. Thanks again so much for your help and excellent customer service!
Also, I just thought you'd like to know that we use MovieCaptioner in my program, Ablevision. Its a television show made by people with disabilities. Our crew member who uses the program captions all of our YouTube videos and was just hired by an outside company to caption their educational DVDs. The ability to use this program and to finally have a paying job means all the world to him and me. So thank you again.”- Alisa
- “I was so happy when I discovered MovieCaptioner! I work at Washington School for the Deaf in Vancouver, Washington, and I have been captioning videos since 1983, when we got our first computer and it took nearly 60 hours to caption a 1-hour program! The advances in technology have greatly reduced the captioning process time, and with the option of using MovieCaptioner for captions or subtitles, it makes it an indispensible tool. I also love the feature of being able to export captions for use on YouTube! You may include our website on your list of "people who use MovieCaptioner." And thank you so much for this product at an affordable price!”- Dana Pride, IT Specialist, Washington School for the Deaf
- “We found out about MovieCaptioner via YouTube at a point in time when we wanted to increase the accessibility of our videos. We knew we wanted to add captions, and wanted the process to be as simple and streamlined as possible. We've been able to repurpose our voiceover text documents and import them straight into MovieCaptioner to quickly get our captions set up, and saved for YouTube use. Even though YouTube offers caption translation, in the future we'll likely use MovieCaptioner to add translations of our own in additional languages.”- B&K Precision
- “I just wanted to say thank you for making such a great piece of software. MovieCaptioner does one thing really well (captions) and has saved me "buttloads" of time in creating captions and translations for our videos”- Jordan Colley, Audio/Video Designer, Line 6
