Creating Accessible Movies for iPods

A shortfall of the video iPod is that while it does support TV-type closed captions, it does not support text tracks for captioning, so the average Joe can't do it. And, if you do know how to embed a text track of captions into your QT movie, it will get stripped out when it goes to the iPod as well. I did find a workaround, however, if you need to display open captions on your iPod videos. The trick is to combine the video track with the caption track. After importing your caption text into the QT movie, all you need to do is to export your movie as MPEG-4. This will create a .mp4 file that will have a combined video and text track which works fine on video iPods.