[evergreen-outreach] videos and subtitles

[Ruth Frasur]

Rogan, these were my observations as well. I agree with your suggestions.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 1:41 PM <rogan.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've spent a little time today (and hit the limit of what I can spare) to
> look at closed captions and subtitles on the videos so far.  My
> observations in no particular order are :
>
> 1) The closed captions files are a mess.  Even with a conscious effort to
> not be nitpicky they could take a lot of time to make readable and that's
> without addressing the time syncing issues.
>
> 2) Youtube does not provide any feedback about what it doesn't like about
> the subtitle files when it does encounter an issue either than line number
> and it's not clear how it's calculating those line numbers (subtitle line
> versus actual file line).
>
> 3) The Youtube autogenerated ones on the ones I did look at are
> surprisingly good and can be easily edited from the classic editor.  In
> many cases they would need at least a little though.  Antora alone has some
> amusing variations.
>
> These three things combined with a desire on my part to not make this a
> tar pit of activity has led me to making the following recommendations:
>
> 1) We continue putting the really clean transcript on the
> evergreen-ils.org site and linking to it in each video description.
>
> 2) For the subtitles / closed captions we use the Youtube autogenerated
> ones as our basis rather than the CC file from Zoom as I think it's a
> cleaner basis and has the advantage of time codes in place already.
>
>
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