Review Alignment Files

Transcript alignment is the fastest and least expensive way to create captions and use interactive video plugins. Review your completed alignment files to ensure accuracy and proper timing of your captions. If there are any issues, you can use these steps to mitigate problems that you may encounter. You can also upgrade to full transcription following the steps linked here. 

 

Prerequisites

Alignment requests will be sent to the Review Alignment Files state based on your project's current alignment settings.  Click here to see more information on configuring alignment settings. 

 

Steps to Review Alignment Files

1. Click on “View Files” in the Alert on your My Files Page

• In the alert that appears above your list of files, click “View Files” to view the alignment files that need to be reviewed. This will filter your files page to only show alignment files that need to be reviewed. 

2. Click on the Name of the File that You Wish to Review

• On the new page, click on the name of the file that you wish to review. This will bring up a file details page to the right-hand side of the screen.

 

3. Click “Review Transcript”

• This will load a new page with our transcript editing tool. Our Transcript editing tool allows you to make basic edits to the text of your alignment transcript. 

 

 

4. Review Areas of Low Confidence

• The text highlighted in orange indicates areas where potential alignment or encoding issues have been identified.
• Navigate through the media file by clicking on the orange, highlighted text.
• Encoding issues with text display as ??s in addition to be highlighted. These will also need to be fixed.

NOTE: If you need to change your file’s language, you can click “Change Language”. If you wish to cancel the file entirely, you can click “Cancel File”.

5. Click “Edit Transcript and Re-submit for Alignment”

• After reviewing the highlighted words, click “Edit Transcript and Re-submit for Alignment” to open the editor and edit the necessary words in the text box. 

• When finished, click “Re-submit for alignment” to submit your updated alignment transcript. Reviewing your alignment files and resubmitting changes through this method does not incur any additional cost. 

Tips and best practices

• Please review our Best Practices for Alignment document, linked here. 
• Alignment works best with files that have minimal background music and sound effects. Files that start with sound effects or music may throw off the alignment process and cause an improperly aligned file. Should this occur, you can upgrade to full transcription following the steps linked here.