September 24, 2007: The DV
Show was right in the middle of this year's Flash Forward
Conference in Boston, the largest user gathering of Adobe Flash users on the
planet!
We came face to face with six industry professionals who share their inside secrets, techniques, workflow and the special tools they use to make video more interesting to
create and watch.
Interview with
Andrew Kirkpatrick Adobe's Accessibility Engineering Manager.
Topics discussed:
- What brought you to this point?
- Legal guidelines for captioning video.
- Retrofitting an existing video with captions.
- What is different about the new captioning component Adobe
offers?
- Is captioning easy for non-Flash users?
- Do you use the feedback from people while product evangelizing in the field?
- Beyond this basic process of captioning, are there many additional options that allow complete control over the location and appearance of the captions?
- How is captioning in Windows Media and Quicktime
accomplished?
- What are other reasons for captioning?
