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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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