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Closed captioning with a DSR 45 deck???
Im using a program called maccaption and trying to closed caption some programs. I have a Sony DSR45 deck, we cant seem to get the closed caption signal to go to tape or to playback if it is going to tape….anyone have any experience with this?
Paul
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Are you recording in DVCAM? If not, but I don’t think that DV is capable of closed captioning. I’m not sure of DVCAM but I would have to say that its ok for captioning.
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Wayne Carey
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we are recording to DVCAM and we actually figured it out, it will only send the CC signal out of the monitor output, thanks for the response though….
Paul
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Paul,
We’ve been researching a closed captioning solution for months now and we have discovered a lot of issues. First, like you have discovered, a DSR45 will NOT retain captions when played through its component or S-Video outputs (haven’t tried the monitor out yet, I’ll look into that), however, an older DSR30 WILL retain captions through its component outputs. We do a lot of dubbing from FCP to the DSR30 to BetaSP and we are able to retain captions throughout using the DSR30.
We also found MacCaption to be rather un-FCP friendly. It really seemed geared towards an Avid or Media100 application (being 720×486). What method are you using to get your captions into FCP?
We have just started having our show captioned by a outsourced captioning provider, for $10/minute!
I have also been told that CPC Caption is comming out with some sort of FCP captioning software application, making it even eaiser for us little guys to do and afford captioning. Only 10 days ’till Jan. 1st! Good Luck!
Jeff
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