Tecnocato: Closed Captioned Videocasts done the right way.

September 25, 2006 9:53 am

I was impressed by how Tecnocato has incorporated closed captioning within their videocasts.  Tecnocato is based in Puerto Rico and they have gotten many requests from English-speaking people to add subtitles.  Obviously, they felt that it was worth their time to do the additional work of subtitling their clips. Now only if all the other podcasting/videocasting businesses would follow their lead. (Robert Scoble, are you listening?)

Their video clips are based on Apple’s Quicktime and I’m not yet sure how they were able to add subtitles from within Quicktime.

This would be a great thing to learn in case I decide to host my own video clips on my server and I would still be able to include closed captioning.  Google Video, which is my preferred on-line video distribution provider, just started to provide this capability.

Thanks to deafbiz.com for pointing out Tecnocato to me.

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  • Rene Visco
    WGBH Boston PBS station is doing it for years back around early 90's. One of the early pioneers in adopting CC with their web videos. (That's 5 to 7 years ago!)

    In my opinion, It's the best implementation of CC in web video clips.

    http://broadband.wgbh.org/
  • Chris Sano
    Quicktime has a TextTracks feature that allows you to add subtitles in similar fashion as Google Video does. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the Google implementation was inspired by this.

    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/texttracks.html
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