How-To: MediaHub Captions

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IIM designer/developer Spencer McCoy demos new captioning features in UNL MediaHub.

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[00:00:01.130]Hi, my name is Spencer.
[00:00:02.667]I am with UComm/ITS Internet and Interactive Media.
[00:00:06.472]I'm part of the team over here that works on MediaHub.
[00:00:09.367]We have added a new feature here
[00:00:11.678]that we're pretty excited about.
[00:00:12.778]That we want to share with you.
[00:00:14.199]That is the ability to add captions
[00:00:16.204]to your videos via cost object number.
[00:00:19.829]The videos are captioned by an
[00:00:21.449]actual human, which is really cool.
[00:00:23.452]And they are captioned at a dollar a minute,
[00:00:26.109]which is actually a steal by any other standard.
[00:00:28.925]You really can't beat that.
[00:00:31.585]So we've done our best to make it
[00:00:32.768]really easy on you to order these.
[00:00:36.122]I am already logged in here,
[00:00:38.438]if you're familiar with MediaHub.
[00:00:39.800]Hopefully you are.
[00:00:42.397]You should already have your video.
[00:00:43.665]Your video should be an MP4
[00:00:45.788]because that's the only video format
[00:00:47.526]that MediaHub will actually accept.
[00:00:50.418]If you don't have an MP4, not a problem.
[00:00:52.679]There's free software called "HandBrake,"
[00:00:55.024]which does a really great job converting
[00:00:58.020]videos to MP4 and compressing them.
[00:01:01.442]In fact, if you already have an MP4,
[00:01:03.632]it's usually a good idea to run it through
[00:01:05.203]HandBrake anyway because you just get
[00:01:07.378]that compression, which is really nice.
[00:01:09.115]You get a smaller file size.
[00:01:10.597]You don't really lose any quality.
[00:01:13.615]I ran this video through HandBrake
[00:01:15.896]here and saved about 40%, I wanna say.
[00:01:18.968]So it does help.
[00:01:21.326]But we're gonna start by saying, "Manage Media."
[00:01:23.490]If you have any other questions
[00:01:25.029]about HandBrake or you want to know
[00:01:27.342]where to get it, we have some presets for it.
[00:01:30.546]Right here, we have this "Preparing Your Media"
[00:01:32.935]link, and we'll just look at that.
[00:01:34.428]Right here, you can download those presets.
[00:01:36.928]And this kind of just explains what MediaHub
[00:01:38.612]will take and how you can get it there.
[00:01:42.911]But I'll take us back, and I am gonna
[00:01:45.276]upload our fun little video here,
[00:01:47.253](vintage music plays from bacteria video)
[00:01:48.640]called "Bacteria, Friend and Foe."
[00:01:51.691](men in bacteria video converse)
[00:01:55.122]"No I can't; I can't do it."
[00:01:57.438]All right.
[00:01:59.604]Drop that in there.
[00:02:03.900]And we'll start titling it.
[00:02:05.253]We'll upload it.
[00:02:06.731]"Bacteria Friend and Foe."
[00:02:08.800]"Unknown."
[00:02:10.822]And "This is a test video."
[00:02:14.617]All right.
[00:02:15.439]I'm gonna add this to my own channel.
[00:02:18.590]The next step is just to add captions.
[00:02:23.758]So this is the new page we have added in.
[00:02:28.685]If you are familiar with MediaHub,
[00:02:30.054]and if you've used the Amara
[00:02:31.409]captioning we integrated a long
[00:02:33.318]time ago, that is still there.
[00:02:35.707]You could still come and, for free,
[00:02:37.808]click "Edit Captions on Amara,"
[00:02:39.867]caption your video, and come back here.
[00:02:41.648]And you say, "Pull Captions From Amara."
[00:02:44.360]That still works; you can still do it for free.
[00:02:46.767]Or you can pay a dollar a minute
[00:02:48.441]and have somebody do it for you,
[00:02:49.647]save yourself a ton of time.
[00:02:51.374]I can tell you that a minute of video
[00:02:53.753]takes way more than a minute to caption.
[00:02:56.685]So this will save you a lot of time.
[00:02:58.262]I'm just gonna go ahead and enter my cost object number.
[00:03:01.013]One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.
[00:03:04.671]Which is not real.
[00:03:07.309]And I'm gonna say, "Order Captions."
[00:03:09.826]And ta-da!
[00:03:11.010]It's been shipped off.
[00:03:12.108]There is a human frantically typing on a keyboard.
[00:03:16.328]They're being captioned.
[00:03:17.790]Maybe they're not typing right now,
[00:03:19.378]but it is usually completed within 24 hours,
[00:03:21.746]which is a really great turnaround.
[00:03:24.371]So that is it.
[00:03:26.607](vintage music from bacteria video)
[00:03:27.806]Go ahead and get out there and start captioning videos.

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