• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  closed capt.

  Posted by Matt Goldschmidt on January 9, 2006 at 3:48 pm

  how do I crate a cc track in my time line for CC?

  thanks

  David Bogie replied 20 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Bogie

  January 9, 2006 at 8:04 pm

  Depends on your target video output and whether you need subtitles burned in or captions that are user-switchable. Most captioning systems are encoded into a scanline and they are not necessarily possible in most nonlinear formats. You put them in when you print to video and it’s usually easier to have a captioning service do the job.
  Then there are the different flavors of captioning and language versioning which new users easily confuse.
  Try these sites for some information:

  https://www.robson.org/capfaq/
  https://www.captionmax.com/faqTechProb.php

  The question is coming up here more and more often so try searching the archives for closed cpations, captions, and subtitles.

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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  Fred Gasser

  January 9, 2006 at 8:42 pm

  My company just purchased maccaption-DV from cpcweb.com. Very expensive but easy to use. Import a quicktime movie, import your script as a .txt file, double check caption placement, render out a quicktime movie, print to video.
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  David Bogie

  January 9, 2006 at 10:45 pm

  Fred, very cool, I’ve added that product to my bookmarks, thanks for the link.
  Expensive is relative, of course, unless you are required to have captions for compliance. So everyone knows, the DV version is about $5k, the light version is about $2k. that seems to be about what these products run. I’m guessing that we will see many new products at NAB in May, 2006.

  This information is from the CPC Web site but I’m still a bit confused on whether or not the “closed captions” are permanently burned-in or switchable. I’ll contact the publisher someday when I need this tool at my shop.

  >Adding closed captions to DV
  DV video contains closed captions in its VAUX data area. CCaption and MacCaption can insert closed captions directly into this data area. When you have a time stamped text file, you can add captions to a DV video by a simple mouse click. MacCaption will create a copy of the DV video with captions in the VAUX data area. Then when you use a print to tape function to dump the video to a a tape (DV or BetaSP) via FireWire, the caption data is tranferred to line 21 of NTSC video by most DV recorders or digital to analog converters< This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

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