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• Captionate (This is the program that will allow you to embed captions inside your .flv
files. You can find it here: http://www.buraks.com/captionate/6.html )
• Macromedia Flash Professional 8 or higher (This is the program that will allow you to
build the .swf and/or .html files using your .flv video. You can find it here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/ )
• Skins for FLV Playback that support Captionate
You can download them from the following link:
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/assets/CaptionedFLVSkins.mxp
Just double click the .mxp to install after you download
Creating an .flv using Macromedia Flash 8 Video Encoder
• If you purchased Flash Professional 8, it should come with Macromedia Flash 8 Video
Encoder
• You can use that to encode almost any type of video into an .flv file
• Open Flash 8 Video Encoder, click Add, and choose your video
• You can add as many videos as you want and the Video Encoder will convert all of them
into .flv videos
• If you don’t have any specific video settings you want to set, just use the default Medium
Quality (400kbps)
• After you have all your videos added in, just click Start Queue
Creating an .xml using CaptionMaker
• CaptionMaker cannot play .flv videos so use your original video to time, position, and
format all your captions inside CaptionMaker
• When you are finished, go to File >> Export DVD/DV2000/Webcast Subtitle and choose
Webcast - Flash XML for Captionate from the pull down menu
Combining the .xml with the .flv
• Run Captionate and go to File >> Open and choose to open the .flv video you converted
earlier
• Go to File >> Import >> Captionate XML and choose the .xml file you just exported
from CaptionMaker
• After it imports all your captions in go to File >> Save
• Now all of your captions are saved inside your .flv video
Creating a .swf and an .html file using Macromedia Flash
• Run Macromedia Flash and choose to start a new Flash Document
• Make sure to save this project in the same folder as your .flv video
• From the Components, & Actions, & Properties & Parameters panel, go to the
Components tab
• Expand FLV Playback – Player 8 and drag the FLVPlayback component from the tab
into your work area
• Now that you have a component to work with, go over to the Parameters tab and under
Content Path put the full filename of your .flv (ex: MyVideo.flv). You should not
include the entire path to where your .flv is located. Just put the name of the actual .flv