Closed Captioning with either Vegas or DVD Architect

[George Wing]

afaik, neither will mux in the SCC file.

However, it is possible that if you have the tools to pre-mux the SCC File into a valid mpeg2 stream, then DVDA4 (without recompressing) will retain the CC in an authored DVD. You would have to burn to DVD Folders, and then edit the IFO file to indicate that the CC line(s) are there in order to turn on/off the CC with a software dvd player. A set-top dvd player might work without needing to set the CC Flags in the IFO.

Regards,
George

[Jason Harbaugh]

Thanks for the info George. Is there any advantage/disadvantage over going with CC vs subtitles on the dvd? We are working on two seperate projects, one on FCP and one on Vegas. The caption company works with FCP all the time, so they just sent over an SCC file. For my project, I’m thinking of just bringing in the script as subtitles and manually moving each line to the proper place in DVDA. Looks like it is pretty easy.

-Jason

[George Wing]

Not sure which is better (assuming it’s NTSC). With subtitles you can provide a menu to show/hide them, and they are easier to turn on/off with the remote control. CC will require your viewer to know how to turn on the closed captions on their tv set. You can include both just to cover your bases…

Regards,
George

[Edward Troxel]

Bottom line, though: Neither Vegas or DVD Architect will add closed captioning. I don’t know of any NLE that will – but then again I don’t know features of all NLE’s either.

Edward Troxel

[George Wing]

Agreed on the bottom line (as mentioned earlier) — but if you can somehow get the CC muxed in (I used DVD LabPro 2.x), then DVDA4 will pass them along to the final DVD (assuming it uses the mpeg “asis”) — it just won’t set the CC Flags in the IFO (so a software dvd player won’t give you the option to show CC). But I believe you will be able to see them on a TV (if the TV has the CC Display turned on)

Regards,
George