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[Captioning Tutorial]
[Stacy Taylor] The first thing you need to do is log in at www.dotsub.com.
If you don't already have an account, click Sign Up Free to create one.
Make sure you pick a username that starts with Adept.
And then your first name, or your last name, or whatever combination.
Then sign in.
As you can see, my username is adeptstacylou.
When you're assigned a Dotsub video to caption, you'll receive an e-mail something like this,
with Ready for Transcription in the subject line.
Click on that and there will be 2 links to the video.
Watch Video will take you to the video page.
This page can be helpful for finding out information about how to spell names
and things like that.
To go to the transcription page, click Transcribe Video.
Also from the e-mail is a direct link to the transcription page.
You can also find your assignments by going to My Videos > Transcriptions,
and you'll see your work queue.
Don't forget to record the name of the video,
the length of the video,
and the project name of the video.
You can find the project name in the assignment e-mail.
Now there's a lot going on on the transcription page.
You have your video player here.
Captions are added in the Add Transcription Line box.
Slides are displayed in here.
You have a box down here describing the keyboard shortcuts.
These will be very important.
And a box up here with all the available links.
Press Play to load the video.
There's a slider at the bottom so you can advance through the video,
volume slider,
current time of the video and the total length of the video.
This is a full-screen toggle.
Just click it to toggle.
You can click it again to toggle back or hit Escape.
To play the video using the keyboard shortcuts, you hit CTRL + SHIFT + O.
CTRL + SHIFT + O also stops the video.
Now, if you're on a Mac it will be COMMAND + SHIFT + O.
To advance through the video 1 second at a time,
hit CTRL + SHIFT + right arrow.
And CTRL + SHIFT + left arrow to go back 1 second at a time.
In the toolbox the only thing you're really going to need to worry about
is Mark Video as Transcribed.
This is how you let the system know that you're done with your captioning job.
With some videos and certain projects,
you'll see that the timecode here only shows in full seconds.
Always caption to the millisecond.
So if you don't see milliseconds,
you're going to see this Advanced Timing link up here.
You want to click that.
And now you can time it in milliseconds.
It will be much more precise.
Most projects are automatically set to milliseconds,
but not all of them are.
So pay attention and make sure you're in milliseconds, always.
The timecode on top shows when the slide appears on screen,
and the one on bottom shows when it disappears from the screen.
To change the start time of a caption, hit CTRL + SHIFT + up arrow.
To change the end time of a caption, hit CTRL + SHIFT + down arrow.
Below the type-in box are special characters.
You'll use the em-dash and the eighth note the most often.
Each slide displays a character count, a word count, and the duration.
You want the slide to start when she begins to speak.
So you'll play it right until she begins to speak,
and stop it.
That's when you want the slide to begin.
In order to set the start time of the slide,
hit CTRL + SHIFT + up arrow.
As you can see, it has changed to reflect the time the video is currently stopped at.
Play the video to get the text that's going to be on the slide.
If you need to go back, hit CTRL + SHIFT + left arrow to rewind.
Now that we've got that, we need to set the end time of the slide.
Each new slide is automatically set to be 3 seconds long.
So play until you want this slide to end.
A good rule of thumb is to play it until the person begins to say what will be on the following slide.
Sometimes you have to do it more than once to get it precise.
The goal is to be as precise as possible.
So you can even toggle Play on and off quickly.
Perfect, now hit CTRL + SHIFT + down arrow
to set the end time.
When that has changed, you can click this button here or hit Enter to load the slide.
And we have our first slide.
Now once a slide is loaded, it is automatically saved.
You don't have to worry about saving your work.
It's automatically saved as you go along.
So the start time of this slide will be the same as the end time of this slide.
Type in the text for that slide, set the end time, again, to when the following slide will begin.
I think that gives you the general idea.
Now that we have some slides up,
I want to show you some things about them.
If you need to advance to a particular point in time
for a slide that you've already created,
all you have to do is click on that timestamp and it will take you straight there.
Notice that this word is mispelled, it's plural and there should be an S on the end.
So I can go in and edit it.
As you can see, the slide edit buttons are ghosted,
meaning they don't show up until you mouse over them.
Click on this little pencil icon to edit.
Add that S.
Click the checkmark to enter it.
Notice you can also edit the timing when you need to.
When editing the timing of slides that have already been created,
you can't just click into the box and hit CTRL + SHIFT + up and expect the time to change.
As you can see, it doesn't change this box.
It changes this one.
So what you need to do is stop the video where you want that slide to start,
hit CTRL + SHIFT + up.
It will change the time in the Add Transcription box,
and you will have to manually enter that time into the box that needs to be edited.
Same for the timing of an end slide, as well.
[For questions, e-mail us at:]
[mytranscripts@adeptwordmanagement.com]