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Closed captioning with Premiere Pro
I would appreciate any guidance in how to do closed captioning with Premiere Pro such as whether it is possible or whether additional software is required. The perfect world would provide a means to import and assign text files to a clip and provide some way to turn it on and off. Thanks in advance for any helpful responses.
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Closed captioning is not done on the video itself. It is a separate issue altogether. It is done after the video is exported.
Encore DVD can do the job, and yes, it can read from a properly formatted text file.
The closed captioning is turned off and on by the user with the TV or the DVD player.
Steven
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Do not confuse captioning with subtitles. Both can be turned on and off, but Closed captions are controlled by your TV, encoded on line 21 of the video signal. Subtitles are encoded onto a DVD, turned on and off by the DVD player remote control or via a menu setting.
Tell us which one you want to do.
Mike
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I appreciate the quick responses.
I produce instructional videos in a corp environment and want to facilitate deaf viewers. So I guess I’m more interested in subtitles, since nothing we do here is broadcast on TV. It would be nice to be able to turn the subtitles on or off depending on the needs of the audience. I could use some guidance as to where to start looking for this capability. Thanks!
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You are correct, I lumped subtitles and closed captioning together. Sorry about that.
Steven
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If you are making DVDs this will be part of the authoring software, Usually something if the class of Encore or like has this capability, low end software has limited options, its sort of impossible for tape outside of making different copies.
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It sounds like Encore covers the DVD realm in this regard. What would be a good way to approach subtitles for AVI or WMV files?
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I use After Effects for subtitles because you can automate the value of the text parameter just like you can other parameters.
So just copy in line by line at the right keyframe.
Steven
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I have just started working with After Effects. I’ll look into that … thanks!
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Here’s the deal. I think you will quickly realize that dealing with subtitles in AE or even Encore is a daunting (not to say time wasting) task.
This is how I do it:
Once the video is complete, I have someone transcribe it (that won’t cost you much), unless you already have a script, or feel you’d rather do that yourself.
Then use this little guy:
https://www.titlefactory.com/That will automatically break up the script in single or double lines.
Allow you to press a button while watching the videpo live to time all the subtitles, then generate a formated text file with timecodes to import into your DVD authoring software.
You’ll never want to do subtitling manually again.
Cheers,
Vince
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cool piece of software. There is a similar thing if you are doing captions in WMV or Real. Magpie https://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/magpie1.html
Lets you set sync points between a video file and a text file. The resulting XML file can be married to a WMV or Real file so your users can turn on or turn off the captions in their player. WMV captioning only worked in IE last time I checked.
We implemented this in a website we did for the NIH. All government video needs to be accessible.
https://videolectures.nccam.nih.gov/
I think there is such a tool for Flash captioning also. We have not had a need for it yet.Mike
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