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Closed Captioning in Final Cut Pro
I had some .scc files made for a DVD and they are working fine in DVD Studio Pro. But now the client wants a closed caption VHS version of the same video. I have looked all through the manual for Final Cut Pro HD and find nothing about line 21 or .scc files or closed captioning of any kind. Does anyone out there have any expirience with CC in Final Cut? Is it even possible or do you need additional Software and/or hardware? I am aware that even if I can get the closed caption into Final Cut, I will still need a CC compatible DVR and VHS to output. But, first things first…
Signed,
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Why not make a dub from the DVD to VHS with the captions on? This will save you having to subtitle the entire show, which is laborious and time consuming.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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I have tried capturing a Closed Captioned DVD on VHS by playing it through a Close Caption enabled TV and all I get is a plain video tape; no closed captions. The encoded closed captioning material didn’t copy to the VHS. I have tried the same method to convert closed caption to open caption and the text doesn’t copy onto the VHS. Could be my VHS is not closed caption compatable. Could be I need a special encoder. There seem to be a lot of variables when dealing with closed captioning. I see why most people out-source. I will try capturing my CC DVD with my digital tape recorder. And if that works she will then at least have a master which she can tape else where to have reproduced.
Thank you for your input.
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Closed Captioning is difficult. The information is encoded into line 21 of the NTSC signal. Ther are many ways this can be stripped off.
These sites may give you some information that can help:
https://www.captionmax.com/faqTechProb.php
https://www.ccaption.com/nccwork.shtml
https://www.robson.org/capfaq/Please come back and close the thread, tell us how you made out.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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The difficulty you are facing has to do with the captioning information being stored in different places on the DVD vs. analog playback (line 21). Final Cut Pro will not insert captions for you. The easiest thing for you to do on a one-time project is to use a captioning service bureau–just give them the video and .scc file and they’ll produce a line 21 encoded caption master. If you want to do it yourself, purchase MacCaption from Computer Prompting and Captioning (https://www.cpcweb.com/products/#MacCaption).
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I used a company to CC a music video I directed and they did just what he said… I sent them the video and they sent me a track back which I could play in my timeline that had all the cc info on it. Here’s he site… https://www.trendsettermarketing.net/home/media
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I had a captioned transfered to vhs using s-video connection and when I played back the vhs the captions where there. same for betacam. Does your dvd play back the captions on a regular tv? if it does then the captions should copy to the vhs with no problems.
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