Closed Captioning of Online Video for Accessibility


Closed Captioning of Museum Exhibits for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- closed captioning of iOS and Android apps and DVD and Blu-ray discs and HTML5 / Flash video (DXFP / W3C Timed Text)
- the development of control system for museum exhibits and entertainment technology
Multimedia System Design and Large-Scale Video System Engineering

Video Production, Editing and DVD Authoring and (re-authoring)
Video productions for Museum clients include "Operation Magpies Return" created for the RAAF Museum Point Cook. The production combined archival footage of RAAF operations in Vietnam with footage shot by the RAAF in country of the archeological excavation. Cockpit interior and aircraft exterior shots of a Canberra bomber from the museum collection form an essential part of the production.
Having undertaken, over a period of two and a half years, a Certificate in Video Production at Northern Metropolitan College of TAFE, Michael enjoys putting this training to good use in multi-camera recording of live performances including dance and bands. The image on the home page is a still from a multi-camera recording of a performance by Danielle Wilde at Dancehouse in 2009.
For museum use, a frequent requirement is to re-author a DVD so that it plays automatically and loops continuously without staff intervention. This can be done without doing any damage to the video quality.

Video Compression
Michael Borthwick has been compressing video for CD-ROM since 1995 and more recently for the web. Formats include Flash, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and the latest Microsoft Windows formats.
