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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by Crito on Thursday February 12, 2015 @05:55PM (#9041907)
Wikipedia suggests that it costs more like $40 per minute. For movies anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window_Captioning_System

I have no idea why it would be "even less if you do it yourself", unless you do not value your own labour.

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by jamesbrownuhh on Thursday February 12, 2015 @06:03PM (#9041934)
Captioning celluloid film is a wholly different thing to transcribing an online video - the prices are in no way comparable.

I create captions for hundreds of hours of video every year - I know exactly how much work it can be, and, at the same time, exactly how easy it can be.

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by Crito on Thursday February 12, 2015 @06:39PM (#9042072)
As I understand it, Rear Window Captioning Systems specifically don't modify the actual film of the movie. That's their advantage over baked-in captions.
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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by jamesbrownuhh on Friday February 13, 2015 @06:36AM (#9043831)
True, but nevertheless, I assure you that almost nobody pays $40 per minute for captioning, no matter what it says on Wikipedia.
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