Since 1986, VITAC has been the leader in captioning and accessibility services. VITAC is the largest and most trusted provider of accessible media services in the world.
VITAC provides captions for corporate boardrooms, school classrooms, sold-out sporting events, and everything in between. Captions continue to expand beyond traditional television and media and reach new audiences every day via computer screens, tablets, and smartphones.
From the ADA to Section 508 and FCC Caption Quality Best Practices and the CVAA, we keep up to date on the latest in captioning and accessibility regulations.
Keep current with all the latest VITAC, accessibility, and industry news, updates, and happenings, and search earlier articles to catch up on what you might have missed.
Whether you're a customer, potential customer, or caption viewer, we've compiled FAQs and resources that will either get you started with captioning, or answer any questions you may have.
VITAC is the largest captioning company in the country. While our size is notable, our people, capacity, technical expertise, and dedication to accessibility for life are our true differentiator.
If you’re interested in a career at the nation’s largest provider of media accessibility solutions, then join the more than 700 of the best professionals in the industry working at VITAC!
“Working with VITAC always makes the post process a breeze. Everyone is a professional, efficient, and friendly! I wouldn’t go anywhere else for my caption and as-broadcast script needs.”
CROWN CLOVERFIELD, LLC. KATIE P.
“I cannot say enough positive things about my dealings with VITAC. They go out of their way to make sure I get my .cap files on time. Everyone I have dealt with has been awesome!”
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NETWORK, AMANDA A.
“…All good and thanks for the speedy and customer oriented service. Refreshing to do business with VITAC.”
CITY OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, CRAIG
“Nice job on the emergency cut-ins this afternoon – thanks to you and your team for the support.”
WHAM, CRAIG
“The staff is exceptional, and easy to work with on multiple projects and last-minute requests.”
IRS, CRYSTAL D.
“The captioning work has been consistently good. Communication is excellent as always.”
MTV NETWORKS, BEN B.
“I love working with VITAC! Exceptional service, quality, communication, and price!”
VITAC’s realtime closed captioning solution includes the largest workforce of captioners in the business, all employees, supported by a team of engineers, schedulers, and Realtime Technical Services coordinators.
When you choose VITAC, you can be assured that you’ll not only receive the highest quality live closed captions that can be created, but also unmatched customer and technical support.
Video via IP
Multiple connections
IP Captioning
Breaking News Coverage
Extensive Research
INTEGRATIONS
As a full-service closed captioning company, VITAC offers extensive caption integrations – for both live and offline captioning – which make it easier than ever to caption your content.
From social media streaming and processing platforms to video management systems and workflows, VITAC Integrations cover all of the platforms and workflows listed below, as well as customer-specific processes, always with more on the way.
Live/Realtime Captioning Integrations:
UStream®
YouTube Live®
LiveStream®
Wowza
Twitch
WebEx
Adobe Connect
Zoom
GoToMeeting
Skype for Business
GlobalMeet
Offline Captioning Integrations:
Amazon S3
Aspera Connect
Aspera Enterprise
Brightcove
Broadnet
FTP/SFTP
Granicus
Kaltura
Kollective
Panopto
Signiant
XPression
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
OFFLINE CLOSED CAPTIONING
VITAC is the exclusive provider of offline closed captioning for prerecorded programming on over 25 television networks. Our offline captioners, all employee and US-based, are not just good transcribers and spellers. They’re expert captioners, masters of description, line breaks, timing, readability, sound effects, and common style rules that average viewers may not notice.
VITAC’s captions for prerecorded programming meet FCC closed captioning requirements and are offered in three styles:
Roll-up
Pop-on
Pop-Center
MULTILANGUAGE SUBTITLING
VITAC’s Multi-Language Subtitling team are experts at translation and the creation of subtitles in over 50 languages for niche customers. Video programmers and producers turn to VITAC for accurate translation, flawless timing, and quick turnaround.
Our highly skilled Multi-Language team includes:
EML Experts: Skilled English captioners who create the original English Master List
Translators: Native speakers also fluent in English populate the timed EML file with their translations
QC Experts: Native speakers, fluent in English and skilled at the timing subtitles
Reviewers: Native language subtitle experts who review and render final files
AUDIO DESCRIPTION
Audio description, often called video description, makes your content accessible to people who are blind or low-vision. Audio description offers blind and low-vision audiences the opportunity to enjoy television or film programming. It is a narrative description of onscreen actions, visual cues such as characters and costumes, and text appearing in graphics or the video.
VITAC provides this service offering:
Professionally trained script writers
Voice talent suited to the video, consistent through series
Engineering and QC by both blind and sighted description experts
All work created by people, not automation software
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