Captioning & Audio-Description Production Checklist

A one-page production workflow: produce the caption file, hit the 99% quality bar, choose closed vs open and the file format, and reuse it for the transcript and audio description.

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Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook

This checklist runs the caption production workflow: the 99% quality bar, closed versus open captions, file formats and reuse for transcripts and audio description. Our seven-volume handbook covers the full video stack; start with Volume 4 for accessibility, captions and loudness, then Volume 3 for subtitle delivery in players and Volume 1 for encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.

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