Volunteers Needed to add Subtitles to Conference Videos

[Murray Stokely]

I forgot to include two additional help topics / videos that provide
more background about adding subtitles :

http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100079
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100077&cbid=-187pqdnf2wsk7&src=cb&lev=answer

There are standard formats for these things so the subtitles could be
used by other video hosting services as well.

          - Murray

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Murray Stokely <murray at stokely.org> wrote:
> We now have over 23 videos uploaded to the BSD Conferences video
> channel from MeetBSD, NYCBSDCon, and other BSD conferences.
>
> I'd really like to add subtitles to the YouTube metadata as this has
> been requested by several users.  Once we have subtitles they will be
> autotmatically machine translated so that users can choose captions in
> the language they are most comfortable with.
>
> There are a variety of tools you can use to record a transcription of
> the video.  One that I tried recently was the webservice Overstream :
>
> http://www.overstream.net
>
> You simply give it the URL for the YouTube video as it is playing and
> it lets you add caption overlays and modify the timings to sync it up
> properly.
>
> The end result should be a text file with caption and timings which we
> can then upload to different video services to provide the captioning
> on demand.
>
> If you have any experience with this, or if you'd like to try to
> caption one of the videos, please let me know.  Thanks and happy new
> year!
>
>        - Murray
>