Video tutorials and articles on podcasting, videocasting, video channels and content management
Subtitles on Facebook may fail to show up in your video for several reasons; One is that the Always Show Captions is turned Off in your Facebook account, the other is that the subtitles you uploaded are not compatible. Format of subtitles on Facebook Starting with the last problem, subtitles on Facebook must be in … Read more
Subtitles in foreign languages can give strange results. Here we show how to fix various problems with a French subtitle vtt file as an example, embedded in JW Player. NOTE: JW Player 7.7 and above solved the issue with special characters, while lower versions and various other players give problems. Some languages pose no problems, but as … Read more
PowerDirector Ultra is a low cost video editor which is quite easy to use. Notwithstanding the low pricing, it is a good alternative for those who are not acquainted with video editing yet, because the learning curve is much lower than the professional packages like Adobe Premiere or FinalCut Pro. In this article, I share … Read more
Updated: 15 March 2019. This tutorial shows how easy it is to create captions/subtitles files in WebVTT, SRT and DFXP format for subtitling in videos and audios. Depending on the media player you use, you can even provide subtitles in different languages for the same media. Subtitle files are basically text files you can write … Read more
TimedText is a convention to place subtitles in videos without actually embed them in the video itself. This has huge advantages over embedded (hardcoded) subtitles because you can use the same video while using different languages, depending where you show it. TimedText can be used in two ways: Closed Captions or Open Captions. Closed … Read more
