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Hello.
Today is a special edition sort of video
for Deaf Awareness Month.
On September 25th I let the internet know that I wanted to launch #NoMoreCraptions.
Very similar to my Lights, Camera, Caption!
campaign sort of thing that I had going on a little while ago
but I saved that title for more of my workshop for VidCon
and where I - wherever else I would have that workshop. [laughs]
And I wanted to make a video for it because this is my campaign, right
well it's everybody's campaign but it has my name on it
anyways, anyways, whatever
not the point.
But I wanted to make a video
because ... why wouldn't I?
but I wanted to try to figure out how to make a video
that wasn't a broken record.
Because I can only say "hey, caption your videos" so many times, right?
But then I realized something.
While there are some people that know how to put on the captions
they don't necessarily understand how to format them correctly.
They don't really follow the FCC guidelines.
FCC doesn't really control YouTube
so really you're not legally required to make it like so,
but if you wanted to make it as proper as possible, I'm gonna tell you how.
And I haven't covered that yet, so perfect, right?
And this is going to be very helpful
for those of you who submit captions and subtitles to your favourite YouTubers.
And I don't mean jokes.
Let me emphasize, once again.
do not add jokes to the captions. It's ridiculous.
and the FCC would yell at you for it.
Yell at you.
So for actual real captions
this is how it works.
So I've opened up the FCC page
and, in case you don't know, FCC stands for Federal Communications Commission,
and they actually have a consumer guide
for those of you that are, you know, in the TV industry
or if you're just, you know making videos like I do and you wanna add the proper captions.
So I'm gonna read what closed captioning is
because a lot of people have had the tendency to argue
to us about what closed captioning actually is
because there is one YouTuber's fanbase that is currently taking a crap
on the deaf community
and writing insults left and right, so.
Closed Captioning displays the audio portion of a television program as text on the TV screen
providing a critical link to news, entertainment, and information
for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Congress requires video programming distributors, cable operators,
broadcasters, satellite distributors,
and other multi-channel video programming distributors
to close caption their TV programs.
So really if you thought about it, shows like, say,
Philip DeFranco who I will use as an example soon
or SourceFed, or whatever
really, they kind of play into the whole business thing
where you would expect that professional captions would be done/
It kinda counts, it kinda doesn't count, I'm not really sure,
but their shows kinda fit right in the middle there.
So here are the FCC closed captioning rules.
FCC rules for TV closed captioning ensure that viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing
have full access to programming, address captioning quality,
and provide guidance to video programming distributors and programmers.
The rules apply to all television programming with captions, requiring that the captions be:
Accurate: Captions must match the spoken words in the dialogue
and convey background noises and other sounds to the fullest extent possible.
Synchronous!
Is that how you say it? [laughs]
Captions must coin - coincid-
Captions must coin-ceed?
I have no idea if that's how you pronounce that word -
with their corresponding spoken words and sounds
to the greatest extent possible and must be displayed on the screen
at a speed that can be read by viewers.
Complete! This is the most important part.
Complete: Captions must run from the beginning to the end of the program to the fullest extent possible.
Properly placed: Captions should not block other important visual content on the screen,
overlap one another or run off the edge of the video screen.
Here are a few examples.
I don't think that the example that I am going to show you
is gonna have this one particular thing that I wanna talk about
but I do wanna say that if you have like graphics over here
like say if I posted um, a picture
or if I had another piece of, like of information
like a text box, if I had
'FYI my favorite color is blue' like on this section over here
the captions cannot go over that.
Because you have to be able to see this piece of information
as well as the information down here.
Now there are a few exceptions from this rule
and I'll just show that right here
in this little graphic, so you can go back over and read that.
I will also link this guide down below.
Now I wanna show you this example of captions
so these are already there, and I did actually contact the guy who wrote these
and corrected him
so I thought when I did this video this would be a great example.
Now I do watch Philip DeFranco's show. I think that he has some interesting viewpoints.
Do I agree with everything he says? No.
But I do like to watch his show, it's a news show that I usually enjoy.
However, his content is not 100% captioned.
However, the content that is captioned,
usually, they're pretty good.
However, I feel like
because the Philip DeFranco show, SourceFed,
those things are businesses, they're really big businesses,
professional captions would probably be more suitable.
In fact, SourceFed's Facebook has captions on the video
however the videos on the YouTube channel which are the exact same videos
do not.
Yes, I have made a note, it's a little weird
but I said
hey
could you
please?
So if you look at, uh, this one particular part in the captions
the very first sentence
where it says the usual "'Sup you beautiful bastards!"
"Hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday."
"Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show and let's just jump right into it."
So as you can see there's four lines
in that section,
and that section is going to show up when you watch the video itself
and frankly it's just too much stacked up on top of each other.
So ideally you don't wanna have more than two lines
and as you can see, a couple more
of these boxes have three lines.
It's just too cluttered.
Now I don't know if the FCC rules when they say that
things should not overlap
I don't know if that also means the captions themselves
but I noticed that on television, most lines,
most of the lines do not go more than two.
So really, that's where you wanna be, that's the perfect amount of space.
Otherwise you're gonna start covering some things up
and it doesn't look really good.
And it could take a lot longer to actually read it
and then stuff goes on faster
but the captions are still there.
Now I've noticed that a couple of channels have run on sentences.
Nothing is spaced out, nothing has punctuation,
and that is also not a good thing to do.
A lot of sentences on the captions, nothing is capitalized and it's just...
So you wanna have proper grammar.
Now you can't expect everybody in the world to have the perfect knowledge
on grammar; my grammar isn't all that great.
Said the news writer, but,
but you know, do the basic stuff.
Add capitalization when it needs to be there.
Punctuation, when it needs to be there.
After one sentence, break
enter, and add in the next caption.
Don't have everything just run on and on and on and on.
It, it doesn't, it doesn't look right. It doesn't match up to regulations.
So if you want to have the proper captions,
you need to format it correctly.
But, yeah, I think that's really about it.
That's how you should be formatting your captions if you do create them yourself.
And if you're somebody that's submitting them to your favorite YouTubers,
there you go.
I would actually encourage you, if you have it, to spend
on average, a video's about five to seven minutes, right?
So if you have about five to seven dollars lying around
I do encourage you to go to something like Rev,
put in an order for one file for one of your videos
and then compare that to other videos
to see what the difference is.
So I did make this into a project, right?
I wanted, today,
there should be multiple videos of people
promoting really good captions
and no more "craptions".
AKA the automatic captions that you turn on
and it says something really, really bizarre.
Also, when you go in the comments sections and you ask for captions
or even when you email YouTubers and ask them
to put on appropriate captions,
they will say to turn on the automatic captions.
And they - they have never looked at them
and you know that, because if they did look at them,
they would never tell you to do that.
So I was hoping that
instead of having some people upload a video, every, you know, couple of weeks,
my goal was to just have as many people as possible
upload a video on the same day
and see how much more attention that could bring
to the issue.
So below, in the info box,
I will have links to all of the videos
that are uploaded for this campaign
and I do encourage you to make your own video.
It doesn't have to go up on this particular day,
it doesn't have to go up on September 25th
Just upload it whenever you want
and I'm hoping that together we can make a positive change in the community.
For all communities.
for Deaf and hard of hearing people.
For those with auditory processing disorder.
For those who are learning English or whatever language that they're watching the video in,
For those that want to watch Gilmore Girls or Brooklyn 99
without waking up their neighbors
or their roommates.
Don't worry, I have your back.
And then we just,
we won't have anymore craptions,
or we'll have less craptions.
Please stop craptions, thank you.
#NoMoreCraptions
# NoMoreCraptions
#NoMoreCraptions
No
More
Craptions
No more craptions!
#NoMoreCraptions
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You get letters, gifts. You help me fund content.
It's a great little thing.
I upload every Monday and Thursday unless otherwise stated
and I will see you later,
bye!
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