President Barack Obama will be signing the 21^st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act. Upon signature, there will be a vast increase in captioned Web videos. This will therefore benefit millions of people who depend on closed caption. CPC has more than 10 years of experience in webcast captioning software and service. Video producers will be helped by CPC to comply with the new law.

As per the new law, close captioning of videos broadcast on television is mandatory when shown on the Web. Also mandatory, all video capable devices need to have closed caption decoders.

Award winning captioning software is offered by CPC to meet the new captioning requirements. The company also offers CPC’s renowned closed captioning service department. This has been certified as YouTube (News - Alert) Ready. CPC’s WebPlus closed captioning software has also been used to caption President Obama’s YouTube videos.

A captioned webcast video can be automatically created by CPC software programs from a previously captioned broadcast video. More than 10 years ago, this capability was developed by CPC. Solutions for all typical web workflows are provided by CPC software. 

Broadcast closed captions on a video tape can be converted into any other captioning file for the web with CPC software. Flash, iTunes, QuickTime, YouTube, and Windows Media files can be generated with this software.

The closed captions from the broadcast signal can also be converted to any other closed captioning file supported by Flash, iTunes, QuickTime, YouTube, and Windows Media. A .mov file can also be created quickly and easily with CPC MacCaption software. 

The closed captioning and subtitling standards for YouTube are conformed by both CPC software and service.  A variety of custom solutions for Flash-based video websites are supported by the software. A SAMI .smi file or an embedded .WMV file with captions for Windows Media servers can also be generated by CPC software.

Professional captioning workflows that that require speed and flexibility will find CPC’s MacCaption and CaptionMaker software specially optimized. Closed caption tracks into videos supported by popular mobile devices can also be encoded by CPC software.