Offline Captioning

Dynamic Captioning offers prerecorded (offline) captioning services in styles and formats to meet your timeline and budget. We’ve produced thousands of hours of offline captions for prerecorded television and web-based programming and commercials, feature films and corporate video presentations.

What is Offline Captioning?

Offline captions for pre-recorded programming are prepared in advance of the program’s broadcast or before mass duplication on DVD and tape. Preparing captions offline allows for the most accurate captioning possible.

Styles We Offer:

Captions can be prepared in several different styles.

Placed Pop-On Captions: Captions are synchronized to the programming, and placed to visually indicate the speakers. They are timed and placed to synchronize with the program. Pop-on captions look similar to subtitling and can be positioned anywhere on the screen to help indicate who is speaking, or formatted to indicate “off-screen” dialog or sound effects.
Stationary Pop-On Captions: Captions are centered at the bottom of the screen with speaker changes noted by a dash.
Roll-Up Captions: Captions scroll onto the screen in a continuous flow and use chevrons (“>>”) to denote speaker changes.

Offline Caption Delivery:

Dynamic Captioning supports multiple workflow options primarily digital file based media. We can deliver industry-standard caption data files to your systems, as well as directly encoding your media files. Although videotape is pretty anachronistic, we still support video encoding to Digital Betacam and HD-Cam, should you desire. When you send us your project, we’ll ask you what format you’d like to send and receive and also what style of captioning you’d prefer.

SCC – Scenariast Closed Captioning
MCC – Mac Caption
SMPTE-TT – SMPTE Timed Text
AAF – Avid Captioning
Quicktime (.MOV) containers – Embedded 608/708 captioning
Most common Internet media formats

Reformatting:

For reformats, captions on a source file can be adjusted to the new version of the provided media, including adjustment of timing for commercials or the adding/subtracting of content. Call us regarding your requirements.

Media Uploads

Current Clients CLICK HERE to Upload your Media to Dynamic Captioning

New Clients CLICK HERE to Complete our New Client Submission Form

Dynamic Captioning Delivers

Competitive Pricing

Professional Realtime Staff and Technical Support

Immediate response to critical production timelines

Supporting all current captioning delivery platforms

24×7 support

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Serving our clients with dependable, accurate and cost effective closed captioning is our first priority.

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