• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Closed Captioning

  Posted by Greg Ball on February 12, 2009 at 10:07 pm

  We shot a series of 1-2 minute interviews that we’re editing and converting to.flv files by using Sorenson for Flash pro.

  The client wants the .flv files to contain a feature for closed captioning. I have an outside sub-contractor who can transcribe and give me XML files based on timecode I provide him. I’ll lay off all the interviews onto Beta SP so the text will match the timecode of my sequence.

  Then what? Would I import those into my FCP sequence and export as .flv? How would I accomplish this task? has anyone ever done this before?

  Chris Poisson replied 17 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Gissing

  February 12, 2009 at 10:38 pm

  My understanding of closed captioning is for broadcast and the captioning is embedded in the VITC, which isn’t a task you can do in FCP as far as I know.

  As for closed captioning in flash, I really don’t know if and how flash does this, but I suspect you can’t do it in FCP and will have to add that later. Best to speak to someone who knows about flash.
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  Chris Poisson

  February 12, 2009 at 11:02 pm

  We just had the exact same request, we bought a little app called Captionate (PC – http://www.captionate.com) that is helping us out.

  We had to export a flash file (flv) of our movie and combine that with the xml file provided for us by our Closed Caption house. We then were able to marry the two with Captionate (PC only, unfortunately). The program was very intuitive and easy to import/export. Costs $60.

  Here’s the issue we are just now getting so. Through captionate you can export a .flv, data .flv or data .xml. I just sent them over to the webmaster to see if he can use them as is. If that doesn’t work we will need to provide him with a “skin” or an embedded player that will allow the user to toggle the Closed Captions on an off.

  If you DO need to export with a skin, the only way I am aware of so far to do that is through Adobe Flash (V. 8 or above). The process sounds simple enough to do without knowing Action script. You can find FREE skins and a tutorial on how to do that here:

  https://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_captionate.html

  That page also has a short video on captionate and so on. Hope that helps!

  Have a wonderful day.

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