NCAM/CC for Flash

CC for Flash | ccPlayer | ccMP3Player | MAGpie

Version 3.0.1 of CC for Flash and the ccPlayer is now available. Read about the new features.

NCAM has developed a Flash component that can be used to display captions of Flash video and audio content. These captions are stored in external files formatted in the W3C's DFXP format which can be created with MAGpie, NCAM's free captioning application. CC for Flash can also display captions saved in Apple's QTtext format. QTtext files can be created by professional caption authoring tools, with MAGpie or with CaptionKeeper, NCAM's line-21 caption-conversion tool.

Authors can link CC for Flash to any of the following objects:

FLVPlayback component (Flash 8 and CS3 in ActionScript 2.0)
MediaDisplay component (Flash MX 2004)
Netstream object (for ActionScript-controlled video objects)
Sound object (loaded or embedded)
Movie clip or SWF timeline

The CC for Flash component is customizable and allows authors to set defaults, such as the width and height of the caption area, the caption area's background and text colors, the opacity of the background (for placing captions over the video), and the font family and font size of the captions themselves.

For those who are not handy with Flash programming, NCAM has created two flexible players which ease the process of providing captioned Flash video and MP3 audio files: ccPlayer, incorporating the CC for Flash component, allows you to embed a FLV player on your Web page; ccMP3Player, which also incorporates the CC for Flash component, plays back MP3 files in a Web page with corresponding caption files. Both players are accessible to screen readers and can be operated solely from the keyboard.

Support for the creation of CC for Flash was provided by the NEC Foundation of America and Yahoo!

Downloads

CC for Flash v3.0.1 package, which includes the CCforFlash component, ccPlayer and ccMP3Player
ccPlayer only
ccMP3Player only
CC buttons for use with CC for Flash
ccPlayer source code

Demonstrations

Documentation

For technical support, please use the public CC for Flash listserv. To subscribe send an e-mail to requests AT mail4 DOT wgbh DOT org with the words "subscribe CCforFlash" (no quotes) in the subject.

For further information about CC for Flash, please contact Mary Watkins at mary_watkins@wgbh.org.

We wish to express our thanks to David Klein, of the Law, Health Policy and Disability Center of the University of Iowa, for contributing information regarding the transformation and rendering of QTtext files in Flash.