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  • Close Caption questions

    Posted by Alan Callaghan on January 30, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    Hello.

    I am trying to get get rid of some Close Captioning off a master. I was not able to get it off by sending it through the time code reader.

    Needless to say. Will digitizing the footage drop the captioning? Then I can lay it off to a tape, and no captioning.

    What do you think?

    alan

    Alan Callaghan replied 16 years ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Mark Raudonis

    January 30, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    You don’t mention what format the master tape is on: Digibeta, HDCAM, DVCPRO, D2, DV???

    Regardless, digitizing can definitely strip off the CC material. Even easier, if you have two record decks “Clone” your master and turn “OFF” the “record” funtion for the captioning lines. Most “master” quality decks can do this. Refer to the manual as to how to work that function.

    Captioning does NOT live in the same place as Timecode which is why the timecode reader/generator did not change it.

    Mark

  • Matt Larson

    January 30, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    If you are looking for a sure fire way to get rid of it, try this: Digitize the footage and then crop off the CC info in FCP. You will be able to see it in the very top of the frame, it is the little white rectangles that go on and off.

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  • Alan Callaghan

    January 30, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    The format is Beta Cam.

    We are able to put captioning on to a tape, and we tried to block out the captioning by basically adding captioning with nothing on the line.

    You say there is a way to do it deck to deck? That would save so much time instead of digitizing then laying off. We have two record Beta Cam decks, and you think that would work?

    thanks for the help.

    alan

  • Alan Callaghan

    January 30, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    My record deck is a Sony UVW-1800. Any ideas how to strip the CC going to that deck from another Beta Cam deck?

  • Alan Callaghan

    February 2, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    Thank you sir!

    This works, ideally we’ll get our C.C. encoder to block the captions next time. But this works too!

    alan

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