Hit the Hay? An Inside Look with a Captionmax Translator Eladio Canibano, a translator with Captionmax for nearly two decades, chuckles as he thinks of all the colloquial phrases in the English language that he finds a suitable translation for…
Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022
Global accessibility awareness is a year-round cause at Captionmax, but Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is an important annual event on the third Thursday of May, bringing further attention to the fact that digital products need to be accessible to…
Wondering What Localization Can Do For Your Media?
Press play and watch these localization services in action! Wondering what localization can do for your media? We define and demonstrate the processes of lip-sync dubbing, UN style dubbing, and multi-language subtitling using in-territory, native speakers. Press play and watch…
Closed Captions and Subtitles for Film Festivals
Screening a film at any festival is an exciting yet emotional process for most filmmakers, and often the culmination of years of hard work, perseverance, and dedication to their craft. Media accessibility is one of the final steps in the…
Captions vs Subtitles
CAPTIONS Captions are transcription equivalents of all audio elements in a recorded program, prepared for FCC-compliant accessible broadcast to deaf or hard of hearing audiences. They generally convey dialogue, music, sound effects, and speaker changes, synced with a program’s audio track, in a…
5 Ways Human Input is Valuable in Localizing Content
At Captionmax, we believe that good, quality translation is an art. Translation is not science or math; you can’t simply replace one word in a language for the other in the destination tongue. Machine translation can be a helpful tool…
Search Engine Optimization and Closed Captions
The primary goal of any content creator should be to share one’s work with the largest audience possible, but impressing viewers with only what’s on-screen may not be enough. To have the best chance at attracting a global audience, you…
Common Subtitle/Prerecorded Closed Caption File Types
Captionmax can deliver closed captions and subtitles for prerecorded videos in any number of ways, but more often than not, our clients need what’s called a “sidecar” caption file. This means that we will be sending them a caption file…