by Ryan Johnson, technology training coordinator

Adding captions to videos makes your videos more accessible to people who can’t follow along with the audio either because of a disability or because they speak a different language.
Some video tools like Adobe Captivate already have functions built-in that allow you to create subtitles or captions. From there you can simply upload the video.

YouTube is probably the easiest way to upload and caption and a video. For more information on how to upload and caption videos on YouTube, please see the links below:
How to upload a Video to Youtube
Getting started with Captions and Transcripts

If you are someone who creates a lot of videos and need them captioned, MovieCaptioner is a service available for free to all Penn State faculty and staff. Contact synchrimedia@gmail.com
to inquire about obtaining a copy. Please use your Penn State ID email and state whether you need the Mac or Windows version.