Follow the steps below to add Vertical Caption Placement to your order when uploading media files directly to your 3Play Media project. If your file is already completed and you'd like to order Vertical Caption Placement, click here.
| Note: If you only want your captions on the bottom third of the viewing area, and do not want captions moved to the top third at any point, you do not need to order caption placement. All captions will be at the bottom third of the viewing area without caption placement, by default. |
Steps to Order Vertical Caption Placement when Uploading
1. Click Order Services
After logging into 3Play Media, click Order Services located on the upper, left-hand side of the My Files page.
2. Select Service
Under Choose Main Service select Transcription & Captioning.
3. Select Language
After selecting the service, select the language spoken within the media files that will be submitted for this order. Please select the language spoken (or predominantly spoken) within the media files for this order.
Selecting a language solely pertains to the transcription and captioning service.
| Note: This is not how a language is selected for ordering translation services. |
Click for more information regarding Translation services
4. Select Turnaround Service Level
Next, select the desired turnaround service level.
Click for more information regarding turnaround service levels
5. Glossary of Terms/Cheat Sheet (optional)
After selecting a turnaround service level, check the box to include a glossary of terms/cheat for this order.
Provide correct spellings of product names, people, technical vocabulary, acronyms, and other terminology occurring in the content that is unique, proprietary, or not widely known to better help with the transcription process.
| Note: The purpose of cheat sheets is not to provide instructions to inform the transcription process but only for providing spellings that are not easily researchable or cannot be inferred by content itself. |
- Cheat sheets can be attached as a 3mb PDF or in a 500 character limit note.
- Click for more information regarding default project-level and folder-level cheat sheets
- Once a cheat sheet has been provided, click Next.
6. Select Vertical Caption Placement and Choose Vertical Caption Placement Type
Check the box Add Caption Placment under Add-On Services. Select either Automatic Caption Placement or Manual Caption Placement.
To Learn more about the differences between Automatic and Manual Caption Placement.
7. Select Folder
Create a new folder for where the media files for this order will reside or select an existing folder to store these orders.
Files can be moved between folders within a 3Play Media project even before services are complete.
8. Review and Submit Order
Please review the services and turnaround times requested on the Finalize Order section of the form. Read the cancellation policy that displays on the right-hand side of the Finalize Order page.
After reviewing the order and cancelation policy click Submit to complete the ordering process.
9. Supported Formats
Once your caption file is transcribed and Vertical Caption Placement has been completed, you'll be able to access your file. Unfortunately, not every caption file type is able to support caption placement.
The following caption/subtitle output file types support Vertical Caption Placement.
- DFXP
- SCC
- SMPTE-TT
- STL
- WEB-VTT