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Hi, I'm Tim from Talon Audio Visual, and I wanted to give a super brief overview about video captioning.

The basic, basic definition here, there's closed captions and there's open captions.

Closed captions are off by default and the viewer can turn them on and off.

They are metadata that goes along with a video stream that's rendered in the video player, or on the viewer's television.

They're called closed captions because they start closed, off, and the viewer can open them by turning them on.

Open captions are part of the video signal, they're actually basically imprinted in the video on screen, they're not user controllable and they're always visible.

That's really, really super brief definitions, closed versus open. And an easy way to make your events and videos more accessible is to include captions for everything you do. Thanks for watching.

Tim Kerbavaz (he/him) is the founder and Technical Director of Talon Entertainment Audio Visual as well as a freelance Technical Producer with over a decade in corporate event production after an early career in live music production management. As both a live event technology professional and a creative geek, Tim serves as an event technology sherpa, guiding clients through production and technology decision making and delivering events to production bliss.