ASL captions on Videos

[Adam Frost]

Oy! I entered the address wrong. It is:
http://www.frostvillage.com/asl/index.html. (I ended with .com rather than
.html)

I have made another caption try for smaller SW size. The link to this one
is: http://mojiti.com/bofangqi/2378/10395.

Adam

On 4/15/07, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam -
> Thanks for this info. For some reason, when I clicked on your
> embedded link to your webpage, I did not take me to your web page!
> Can you give us your link in a more open way so we can type it if we
> have to? smile...Many thanks ;-))
>
> Val ;-)
>
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> On Apr 15, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
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> > The way that I made the size smaller on my webpage is very gruesome
> > and crude. I opened of the image in a vector graphic program called
> > Inkscape. I reduced the view to 50%. Then I did a screen capture.
> > Because I don't really know Inkscape too well, I paste the screen
> > capture in another graphic program that I have, Gimp. Here I crop
> > only the part of the screen capture that I want and save. I know
> > that this isn't the best way, but it works for me right now. I
> > hadn't thought of doing it for the caption of "Little Miss Muppet,"
> > but I will try it right now.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > On 4/15/07, Valerie Sutton < signwriting at mac.com> wrote:
> > SignWriting List
> > April 15, 2007
> >
> > On Apr 15, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
> > > I would love to do that. :-) I have to admit that the caption
> > > editing was very easy. The only problem that I had with this whole
> > > thing (and you touched on it a while ago) is that the SW as of
> > > right now can't be very small and clear at the same time. With the
> > > video viewing screen on the computer being so small, I could only
> > > fit about two signs per frame which meant that each frame went by
> > > really fast. If there was a way to make it so that the signs could
> > > be smaller, but not lose readability, then more signs could stay on
> > > the screen longer much like English captions.
> >
> > Yes.. all of these issues, James and I had discussed before and there
> > were three things holding us back...money, time and skill in ASL.
> >
> > With your ASL and computer skills, that will really help!
> >
> > Plus, regarding the techniques of captioning, James does English
> > captioning for others, and is skilled at doing two-language captions
> > for the hearing world...I have seen some of his work with captioning
> > a media presentation in both English and Spanish captions on a CD,
> > where the person clicked on a button and could switch to the other
> > language easily...the captions changed from English to Spanish to
> > English with the push of a button...very smooth...and he programmed
> > that with fancy software on the Mac called FinalCutPro, which we may
> > possibly have to purchase to do a professional job...but that is
> > exactly why we are a good team...because we all come from different
> > professions but can help make the project work...and then Harkle.com
> > can become the place on the web where we create a library of ASL
> > captioned media...so it will all connect...
> >
> > Regarding the small size SignWriting...I know the 50% reduction of
> > SignWriting symbols available right now is not perfect, but that can
> > be fixed. I believe you showed me your new web page that was gorgeous
> > that you had used a vector program to fix the smaller symbols? Want
> > to tell us about that? And show us how it looks on your web
> > page?...what is the link and how did you do it?
> >
> > Your technique might be applied to the ASL captioning...
> >
> > Val ;-)
> >
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> >
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