The Cerritos College captioning project is
a joint effort of the Computer Services, Court Reporting,
Disabled Student Programs and Services, Instructional
Media, and Library Services divisions. The project
encompasses all video used for instructional purposes
anywhere on the campus. This alliance is
responsible for reviewing and cataloging all video
products and to see that these items meet the
captioning requirements. As the technology and
requirements had not been in place prior to this year
(2000-2001), we are in a process of reviewing all videos
tapes on the campus and working to get the videos
currently used for instruction and not captioned
corrected first. Then all legacy items that are
needed for historical or future use will be dealt with.
The goal is that the entire collection will be brought
into compliance within 6 years (2007-2008). This
sounds like a long time, but there is a lot of legacy
video to be modified. This is also why no new
instructional video should be purchased without it being
captioned already.
There is a stringent policy that must be
followed to legally add captions to video products.
If a video is not captioned:
First we must see if there is a newer
version with captions, as it is less expensive to replace
than to caption.
Second, if not available, then we must
request a signed authorization from the publisher to
modify the product with captions. If we cannot get
such a release and the video may not be captioned,
then the video can not be used for instructional use.
Third, upon receipt of the approval then
the process of copying the script to a text file and that
file being applied to the video begins. Using current
technology, it will take approximately ten man-hours
to complete a two hour video. As contract
captionists charge $6 a video minute($720 for 120 min),
when possible we prefer to do it in house for about $250.
Web Author: Tim Kyllingstad (tkyllingstad@cerritos.edu)
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Last update:
07/22/08
