Ensuring Accurate Captions for Your VidGrid Videos: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to review, edit, and improve captions for your VidGrid videos. Discover tips for accuracy and options for professional captioning.
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Speaker 1: Now that you have finished recording and editing your video with VidGrid, the last step is to ensure that your video has accurate captions. When a video is recorded and saved to your grid, it will automatically be machine captioned. While VidGrid's automatic machine captioning is very precise, it is recommended that you check your captions for accuracy and edit them if necessary. There are two ways to review and edit your captions. The first is by accessing the captioning dashboard found underneath your video. By selecting the closed caption icon, you are immediately brought to the caption dashboard. From here you can view the current completion progress of your captions, as well as select the action to download your transcript, download your captions, or finally to edit your captions. From here you can view the captions for your video, along with the corresponding timestamps. You can scroll through and make any necessary corrections. Make sure when you're finished that you save any changes by selecting the blue save button at the bottom. The other option for editing your captions can be found by selecting the magnifying glass or search captions icon at the bottom right of the video. From here you can listen along to your video and correct the captions. You can also search any particular term that you know you'll have to correct more than once. You can also download your transcript from this area. When you're finished, select the X to close the edit box and your changes to the captions will be immediately displayed. One option to improve the accuracy of the machine captioning and to reduce the amount of time you spend editing your captions is to build a custom library of common vocabulary terms that are specific to your videos. Once these words are entered into your captioning library, VidGrid's machine captioning will recognize them with greater accuracy. To access this feature in your VidGrid account, go to the My Grid page of your account and select the profile icon at the top right of the screen and then select account settings. Scroll down past the various notification and permission settings until you see the closed captioning services area. In this box, add any words that may be commonly misinterpreted by the machine captioning, making sure to add one word per line. When you're finished, make sure to select the save button underneath to add the vocabulary to your captioning library. As mentioned at the beginning of this video, VidGrid will automatically machine caption your videos for you. However, Wake Tech does offer the option of having your videos professionally captioned if they meet certain criteria. The professional captioning does incur a permanent cost for the institution. All VidGrid users will use the machine captioning options first, evaluate the accuracy of the captions provided, and make reasonable corrections when possible. The criteria for professional captioning are attached to this video as a Word file. You can view any attachments to videos by selecting the file clip icon or the attachments icon at the bottom right of the screen. If you believe your video fits the criteria for professional captioning, go to the captioning dashboard, select the requests tab, professional captioning, and then request. If your video is approved, you will receive a notification from the administrator.

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