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Closed Caption Capture
I have a Digi Beta to capture and the Digi Beta has CC on it….. Now Final Cut strips the Captions off because when i play the file out in Quicktime i select the SHOW CLOSED CAPTIONING OPTION……The only other solution is to purchase Mac Capture, But is there another was with using what i got???
MO
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FCP doesn’t strip the CC off my tapes. In fact, I send out a Beta to my Caption guy. He gives me a dub with CC on. I digitize that back into FCP and strip in the 1st line over my original edit timeline to keep the quality 1st generation, then re-output. Works like a champ.
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Moises, your caption data is intact.
that “show caption” option in quicktime doesn’t work for me either, but
rest assured the captioning is there. just play it with quicktime, you
will see the little white blips of data at the very top…thats the captioning data. -
Hello Moises,
The “Show Closed Captioning” dialog box in QuickTime Player only works with QuickTime caption tracks (QT 608 or QT DTV 608/708 tracks). What you have is the line 21 data recorded as part of the image, which is a different way of recording closed caption data.If you just want to print the file back to a SD tape or a monitor, then you should be fine with what you have. But if you want to convert the line 21 captions for use in a different format (for the web, DVD, or for HD video tape, etc.) then you would need closed captioning software or a service company to convert the data to the appropriate format.
What do you want to do with the closed captions from this tape?
Hope this helps,
Jason Livingston
CPC Closed Captioning -
Ok this is the process……….. Tape/FInal Cut/Transcode/upload to broadcast for Air
MO
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Captions that are encoded into analog using conventional Line 21 specs video will be stripped off if you render anything in FCP.
bogiesan
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[Moises Chavez Jr] “Ok this is the process……….. Tape/FInal Cut/Transcode/upload to broadcast for Air”
Transcode to what exactly? That is the key.
If the destination format is SD 720×486 29.97fps with line 21 captions (ProRes, uncompressed) then you’ll be fine with the line 21 captions captured from tape. If it is transcoded to anything else (DV, DVD, MPEG-2, H.264, HD, web video, etc.), you’ll need software to convert the captions into the format used by the destination.
Hope this helps,
Jason Livingston
CPC Closed Captioning -
Thanks
MO
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If you dont mind me asking who is your caption guy or Company
MO
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what software would that be? if destination format was let’s say h264? thanks
Mike Varga
FCP7/FCP10/Avid/Premier editor
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