[Update: Above is a screenshot I saved before my video went away. As of April 29, 2011, videos uploaded to Google Video will no longer play.]
This is my first Google video, and my first video with closed captioning. Click on the little “CC” icon to watch the captions.
I must say I’m a bit frustrated by the fact that there’s no sound in the video even though I uploaded the video with sound. I uploaded it as a QuickTime movie (.MOV). I don’t know if that made the difference or not. If anyone can help me make sure the videos I upload retain their audio track, please leave a comment. It was also a bit frustrating that the captioning did not appear as soon as Google said it was finished “processing” my video. I waited about 15-20 minutes for the captions to appear when I played the video (I kept refreshing), but it was after midnight and I really had to go to bed. In the morning, at about 6:30 AM, I watched my video again, and the captions were there.
Anyway, this was a successful experiment from the standpoint of captioning. The one mistake I made was typing one of my time codes with a period, rather than a colon, between the minutes and seconds. This made the time code show up in the captions. I corrected the captioning text and re-uploaded it.
For those interested in captioning, what I did was open a new file in BBEdit, and typed in my captions using the SubViewer format described in this Google Video Help Center Topic: How do I enter captions or subtitles? This entailed watching the video for a few seconds, pausing it, and then typing the time code showing the beginning time and ending time of that section with a line underneath the time code transcribing what I said during that section. (My QuickTime video shows the hours, minutes, and seconds wherever the playhead is at the moment.)
I saved the file with “Unicode UTF-8, No BOM” encoding. Here are the contents of the captioning text:
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Hi! I’m Daniel Greene. I’m a sign language interpreter,
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and I’m excited about a new feature on Google Video
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that allows you to add closed captioning to your videos.
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Now, I can sign, so deaf people can watch my videos and know what I’m saying
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— if they know ASL —
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but, if you don’t sign, and you want to share with deaf people what you’re saying,
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then you’ll have to caption your videos.
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Now, if you caption them with open captioning,
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then anybody can see the captions, and some people find that distracting.
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But if you add closed captions,
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then no one will see the captions unless they click on a special icon that says
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“CC” for “Closed Captioning.”
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That way, deaf people can understand what you’re saying,
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they can follow your videos,
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and deaf people that don’t know sign language can follow your videos—
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let’s say if you’re doing a sign language video or a video in ASL.
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So, I made this brief video
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so that I could get some practice in closed-captioning my videos
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and so that I could join my deaf colleagues in supporting the captioning of videos on the Internet.
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You see, there have been closed captions on television programs since…
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…the early ’70s,
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and that allowed a lot of deaf audience members
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to participate in the television viewing audience.
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But, now that there’s a lot of video on the Internet,
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suddenly deaf people are feeling like they’re back in the old ages
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before the ’70s before closed captioning came out,
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because now a lot of video’s out there on the Internet with out any captioning at all.
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So, I’m creating this video in support of this closed captioning,
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and also so that I can, uh, learn how to do it!
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Hope you enjoy.
[Update #2: And here is the same video I uploaded to YouTube after they implemented closed-captioning:]
Daniel Greene 
Comments welcome