Third party owned videos (e.g. found on YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) used in your courses should contain high-quality captions. To assist you in this process, Online Education and Educational Technology and the Library have developed a sequence of steps to help you source and use the best captioned video content for your course.
Search Butler's Licensed Databases (Library)
Contact your liaison librarian and provide them with a list of videos you intend to use for your course. Your librarian will search for the same and/or similar video content in one of the existing Butler subscribed video databases (Kanopy, Films on Demand, and VAST). Most of these videos already contain captions and Butler has licenses to use these videos (unlike most videos found on YouTube, Vimeo and similar services). You are encouraged to search these databases, too.
Seek Captioning Support (OEET)
If already-captioned video content is not successfully located in the Library subscription databases or via other resources, the office of Online Education and Educational Technology may be able to caption the content or outsource caption creation to a service provider. Factors affecting this step include the following elements:
- licensing restrictions of the work;
- turnaround time required and;
- length of the video content.
If you already have written permission from the copyright owner, this last step will be greatly aided. For more information about requesting captioning for third-party videos, contact the office of Online Education and Educational Technology at 317-940-8575 or by email at OEET@butler.edu.
Related Resources
For resources on how to caption self-produced videos, see
How do I add ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) captions to a Panopto recording?
