Most comprehensive QC & correction for captions/subtitles
Delivering good quality captions or subtitles can be very costly due to significant manual intervention required in identifying and rectifying a variety of issues with traditional captioning software. This becomes more difficult especially when different customers have different technical and quality requirements. Operators end up spending numerous hours and sometimes days dealing with this. If the Caption or Subtitle QC is neglected and not done properly, then this can pose serious brand risk in the current environment where viewers expect highest quality of experience.
CapMate® – Captions QC & Correction platform changes all that. It automatically identifies issues and allows users to perform auto correction and export the rectified captions right from within the platform. This saves significant time & cost for the organizations and allow them to deploy their resources in more value-added tasks.
Delivering good quality captions or subtitles can be very costly due to significant manual intervention required in identifying and rectifying a variety of issues with traditional captioning software. This becomes more difficult especially when different customers have different technical and quality requirements. Operators end up spending numerous hours and sometimes days dealing with this. If the Caption or Subtitle QC is neglected and not done properly, then this can pose serious brand risk in the current environment where viewers expect highest quality of experience.
CapMate – Captions QC & Correction platform changes all that. It automatically identifies issues and allows users to perform auto correction and export the rectified captions right from within the platform. This saves significant time & cost for the organizations, and allow them to deploy their resources in more value-added tasks.
Rich QC features of CapMate ensure that the captions/subtitles of your content are compliant with corresponding specifications like SCC, IMSC, TTML, etc. You can further validate the captions/subtitles for major content delivery platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Viacom-CBS and others.
CapMate allows to automatically identify and correct the sync issues between audio and captions in the content, which can be further reviewed. Rich manual correction and adjustment capabilities are provided for fine control on captions and subtitles.
CapMate automatically identifies all the overlap locations of burnt-in text and captions/subtitles, and allows to take corrective measures so that all important information is clearly visible to the viewers.
CapMate can identify and rectify the timing issues of the captions, such as display duration of the caption, number of characters displayed in a line, number of words displayed in a minute, and time gap between two successive captions.
With CapMate, you can easily identify abusive/curse words in the captions/subtitles and replace them with words of your choice. Corrected caption files can be further exported.
CapMate can automatically identify missing captions in the portion of a movie or a TV show, help you insert the missing caption, and export the rectified file.
CapMate is equipped with rich browser-based review and correction system, allowing users to navigate and preview caption QC results with associated audio/video, manually correct the caption timing, text, and styling, and export the corrected.
Rich QC features of CapMate ensure that the captions/subtitles of your content are compliant with corresponding specifications like SCC, IMSC, TTML, etc. You can further validate the captions/subtitles for major content delivery platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Viacom-CBS and others.
CapMate allows to automatically identify and correct the sync issues between audio and captions in the content, which can be further reviewed. Rich manual correction and adjustment capabilities are provided for fine control on captions and subtitles.
CapMate automatically identifies all the overlap locations of burnt-in text and captions/subtitles, and allows to take corrective measures so that all important information is clearly visible to the viewers.
CapMate can identify and rectify the timing issues of the captions, such as display duration of the caption, number of characters displayed in a line, number of words displayed in a minute, and time gap between two successive captions.
With CapMate, you can easily identify abusive/curse words in the captions/subtitles and replace them with words of your choice. Corrected caption files can be further exported.
CapMate can automatically identify missing captions in the portion of a movie or a TV show, help you insert the missing caption, and export the rectified file.
CapMate is equipped with rich browser-based review and correction system, allowing users to navigate and preview caption QC results with associated audio/video, manually correct the caption timing, text, and styling, and export the corrected.
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CapMate supports a wide range of caption/subtitle formats. It also allows a wide range of checks on caption and subtitle assets.
Input: SRT, SCC, IMSC, TTML, DXFP, SMPTE-TT
Export: All the above formats supported. Export in same format as the input.
Text: No. of lines, Line length, Caption position, Profane words, Spell check, Missing translation
Timing: CPS, CPL, WPM, Min/Max Duration, Frame gap
Text/Video: Caption overlap on burnt-in text
Text/Audio: Caption/Audio synchronization, Missing Captions, Supported Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese
Compliance: SCC, IMSC, TTML, DXFP, SMPTE-TT, WebVTT and EbuSTL
Parameters: HDR Formats, Reporting of HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision metadata
Spotting: Video segments containing burnt-in text
The word “subtitle” is used in European nations while in the U.S region they call it “captions”. Other difference is that “Subtitles” are for people who can hear the audio but might not understand the language while “Captions” are for people who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Some of the typical captioning issues that one encounters are Caption time alignment with speech or popularly called as Sync issues, Caption overlapping with On-screen Text, Missing Captions, Display duration issues, File format conformance issues, etc.
Spotting, which is, to pinpoint the exact nature and location of the error could be at times a tedious task to perform if done manually. CapMate on the other hand can make spotting the errors easy where only user has to visit only those locations which have issues.
Yes, CapMate can automatically correct a range of issues with a few clicks which can be done in matter of minutes.
CapMate is a captions QC and Correction Platform offered as SAAS on AWS cloud. It automatically identifies issues and allows users to perform “Auto correction” and export rectified/corrected captions file right from the application.
Yes, CapMate allows one to set up error checks templates specific to your customer’s requirements against which all the checks can be performed before you deliver.
Yes, CapMate can detect and correct sync errors like Drift sync errors, Segment-wise sync errors in matter of minutes.
Yes, Capmate can detect the captions overlapping with On-screen text and correct it with just a single click.
Yes, CapMate can detect the speech segments where the corresponding captions are missing in the caption file.
Missing Translation feature of CapMate detects those portions of captions which are present in primary caption file but missing in the secondary caption file i.e. translated caption files.
Yes, CapMate is available for trial purpose so that the content providers can test the software before availing its subscription.
SRT, SCC, IMSC, TTML, SMPTE-TT, DFXP, WEBVTT, EBUSTL
No, it is a cloud-based SaaS service, so no installation or hardware provisioning is required. You can directly use it by logging onto CapMate through web.
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