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Closed Caption – Hardware encoder for DV
Does anyone have any additional information about closed captioning? Currently we are sending a file to the caption house to create a Quicktime movie to lay into FCP. We then can then output to Beta SP. I’m looking to see if there is an alternative to MacCaption Lite-DV for encoding to DV. Are there any hardware encoders out there in use?
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John,
We’re in the same boat as you. We’re sending our tapes to a captioning provider. We have extensively looked into all the CC options out there and the best (meaning: fastest, simplest, and cheepest) FCP solution seems to be MacCaption.
We looked into hardware encoders and the whole work flow of: transcription > CC formatting within captioning software > encoding CC’s to Beta through a hardware encoder in line with our signal flow – just seemed to be a long, time consuming, expensive, and complicated solution.
With MacCaption the whole process is contained in 1 package (except for transcription, which can be handed by a fast-typing employee or in-expensive speech recognition software). And the captioned master QT movies can be saved to a DVD-R or similar media for archival and re-runs if necessary. And looking at prices for a CC provider, MacCaption pays for itself in a few short months.
PS. we’re planning on paying for the provider for a few more months, then “discovering” MacCaption, therby saving the day, and the boss, lots of money and scoring us big points with the boss. And points with the boss equals new cameras and other fancy equipment for us!
Jeff Carrion
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