joshua crawford
TRANSCRIPT
PRESENTS
FOR
OZeWAI 2007
A PRESENTATION BY
JOSH CRAWFORD
CAPTIONING IN
FLASH CS3
WHAT ARE
CLOSED CAPTIONS?
Closed captions (subtitles); A transcript of the dialogue and meaningful sounds from television or film
Language barriers Hard of hearing
Example DVD subtitle
INGREDIENTS FOR
FLASH CAPTIONS
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
Timed Text Authoring Format
Flash Player skin Video on the web
Captions (XML)
with captionsFlash video (FLV)
Flash video (FLV)
Captions (XML)
Flash video (FLV)
Captions (XML) – DFXP format
<body><div xml:lang="en"><p begin="00:00:00.01" dur="00:00:02.00">ROBERTO: What do you do?</p><p begin="00:00:02.34" dur="00:00:04.34">Oh, I just relax, sit around, maybe have a cigarette.</p></div> </body></tt>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><tt xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2006/04/ttaf1" xmlns:tts="http://www.w3.org/2006/04/ttaf1#styling"><head><styling><style id="1" tts:textAlign="left"/><style id="2" tts:color="transparent"/><style id="3" style="2" tts:backgroundColor="white"/><style id="4" style="2 3" tts:fontSize="20"/></styling></head>
Captions (XML)
Flash video (FLV)
Captioning software
MAGpie
PUTTING IT ALL
TOGETHER
1. The FLVPlayback component
Captions (XML)
Flash video (FLV)
Create a new Flash ActionScript 3.0 File
Captions (XML)
Flash video (FLV)
Drop the FLVPlayback component onto the stageSelect a captioning skin for the player
Captions (XML)
Flash video (FLV)
Enter the source for the FLV video
2. The FLVPlaybackCaptioning component
Captions (XML)
Flash video (FLV)
Drop FLVPlaybackCaptioning component onto stageEnter the source for the captions XML file
3. Export the Flash movie
IMPROVING ON THE
DEFAULT
Add a dynamic text box
Captions (XML)
Flash video (FLV)
Add a new layer to the timelineDraw a text box below the player using the text toolFormat as “Dynamic text” and name text boxChange FLVPlaybackCaptioning component parameters
Export the Flash movie (again)
CONCLUSION: Flash and captioning go together like coffee and conversation
