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Closed Captioning
Hello, how would one go and incorporate Closed Captioning into a video? I want to encode Closed Captioning right into the product and have it triggered via the remote for Closed Captioning. I relaize that DVD Studio Pro can add subtitles, and the user mearly needs to turn subtltiles on or off. But what about the video itself prior to DVD. For example, will it carry over to Tape?
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7 Replies
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Sorry not to be able answer your answer directly. The topic comes up regularly, there have been several mutually exclusive threads that make us wonder if there is a real solution. Until other participants chime in, humbly suggest you search the archives for lots of valuable suggestions and you might want to drop in to this site:
https://www.robson.org/capfaq/bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Closed captioning on a DVD is a file included on a the DVD for the DVD player to read.
Closed captioning on a tape is on scanline 26 for the CC decoder on the television to read.
https://www.captionmax.com/captionmax_viewerinfo.php
This site has a lot of good information.
debe
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As pointed out above, DVD captions and broadcast captions are two different beasts. And I know nothing about captioning DVDs. But if your question is “Is there a way I can edit closed captions into a sequence in Final Cut Pro, so that the captions can be broadcast and decoded by a television set in someone’s home?” then I have an answer for you.
I have not used it, but there are a couple of products that allow you to encode text into Line 21 (in the vertical interval) and insert the signal into a FCP sequence as an additional–and functionally invisible–video track.
One is PC only (though you create a a QT movie which you can import into FCP) and the name escapes me at the moment.
But there is at least one Mac-native program: MacCaption (https://www.ccaption.com/index.shtml) and it’s not cheap ($2000-$7000, depending which version you get). That’s why there’s a booming business in paying somebody else to do it for you.
Good luck!
Mike Raff
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er, I meant line 21…
sorry for that silly line 26 business. That’s what I get for posting before I’ve had all my morning coffee!
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Last bit of advice: Hire it done by a captioning service
bogiesan
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As someone who runs a business providing closed captioning services – I can assure you in the long run, it’s probably better to have someone do it for you. If you are mastering onto Digibeta you don’t lose a generation in the captioning encoding process. If you’re mastering onto beta SP your only option is a composite (yes composite!) dub onto a new master which would then contain the closed captioning signel information. Quite complex actually and getting more so with HDTV. Unless you’re doing masses of captioning, best to just add the fees to the budget. You’ll be surprised when you’re adding up the expenses to find that captioning is one of the least expensive areas of production.
Cheers,
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Thanks Jeff, I’m slowly starting to realize this – know of any service providers in Toronto?
Ok, so, I have yet to receive an answer as to how I acheive this as an unfinished project in Final Cut pro. How or what do I provide to the service provider? a finished DVD a Final Cut Pro file, etc. What?
Normally, my project is done, I export to Mpeg2, create a DVD Studio Pro project and then burn a DVD of the finished corporate video etc. How or where in the mix do I get closed captioning? And how will it effect my control of finishing a product to DVD etc.
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