Closed Captions

[John Rofrano]

Vegas does not do closed captioning nor does Vimeo or YouTube support it.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Norman Willis]

Ouch.

What NLE’s do closed captions?

Norman

[Norman Willis]

Wait.

In VPro9, when I go to Insert >> Command, I get a Command Properties dialogue box. In the Command line, the third option down in the dialogue box is “WMClosedCaption.”

What is this option for?

[John Rofrano]

Windows Media has the ability to carry this information as embedded commands in WMV files. I don’t think Vimeo and YouTube will display it though as they convert your files to another format. This will work for people using the Windows media Player with your original files. You can also embed URL’s and other things as commands.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Norman Willis]

We need to make lots of teaching video. Some of it will eventually have subtitles in foreign languages, so maybe I I should just make an English subtitled version as well?

[Mike Kujbida]

Norman, while subtitles and closed captioning are similar, they are still (technically) different.

I’ve done a number of DVDs with subtitles over the past few years and it’s very easy to do.
IMO, doing this in DVD Architect is simpler.
Check subtitles in the DVDA online help menu and see how easy it is 🙂

[Luc Enders]

Also note that closed captioning is an US specific ‘feature’. Doesn’t exist in most other parts of the world.

If you want multiple subtitles you’re best of as Mike mentioned using DVD subtitles feature. You can specificy multiple subtitles which can be selected by the user (DVD player).

Subtitles is seperate from the video stream.

[Mike Kujbida]

Luc, CC does exist in Canada as well and I’m pretty sure it’s now mandatory in the US on all programming.
I’m not certain about requirements anywhere else in the world.

As we both said though, subtitles are the feature to use and are easy enough to do.

[Norman Willis]

Thanks, guys.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org

[Erik Davis]

Maybe this is obvious but just in case I thought I should let you know that it is possible to use third-party software to create 32bit avi’s or qt’s to put on the timeline in Vegas and get closed captioning that way.

Erik