I do closed captioning for movies (DVD releases and TV) and broadcast and cable TV. My company also does foreign language subtitling (I format the translated files for DVD release and for American movies shown on Asian and European airplane flights). We do captioning for NBC primetime, ESPN, ESPN classic (yay, boxing!), VH1, MTV, A&E, PBS, and the History Channel, just to name a few. I work in offline captioning, but we also have a real-time department.

We don't deal with rear window movie captioning; I'm not sure which company has a lock on that, but it's not us, unfortunately. When we caption programs for DVD release, we caption them from scratch. It would be nice if we could get those rear window caption files, but captioning companies are very competitive and don't share their work.

We've also been getting into a lot of captioning for the internet lately. We've got a contract with Google Video to caption stuff for them, plus we have several government contracts because by law, all government videos online must be captioned. Today I'm captioning a webcast of a large defense company's technical meeting. This company has a large workforce including hard of hearing people, so they need all of their videos captioned for their company's intranet.

Okay, sorry for rambling on. I'm always happy to answer questions about CC! Hope you have a great weekend!

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