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• Automatic Sync Technologies (commercial): This company offers an automated captioning service that allows for a wide variety of output formats for captioning Web media or broadcast media (videotape and DVDs), or adding search and navigation features to Web media.

• Captionate (commercial): The Manitu Group offers this low-cost tool, which allows you to embed captions in Flash Video files (.flv). You can request a free 10-day demo version. You will need to use a caption-enabled Flash Video player (.swf) in order to display the caption text on a web page.

• MAGpie 2 (free): The National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) offers this Java-based captioning tool, which allows you to add captions to QuickTime, Real Media, and Windows Media Player video formats.