closed captions

[Bill Stephan]

You output your master to tape and then take it to someone who has a eaption encoder and captioning software. When the captioning project is completed in the software, you make a dub through the caption encoder, which inserts the line 21 data stream. No edit system has this kind of function built in.

Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City

[Will Edit for food]

Avid Adrenaline HDs have the capability to add edits on a Metatrack, which can be useful as information you convey to your DVD authoring person. I asked Avid if the Metatracks can be used as drag-drop locations for the .ccs files you can get emailed to you when you send out for captioning, but alas no. Not yet anyway. Only thing Avids can handle with captioning at this point is to accept existing captioning on line 21 and spit it back out again, but no creation or editing of it.

Think of it though… do you really want the Captioning Intern typing away on your Avid? Just think of the pop-ups from the PSP sites he’d be visiting when you walked out of the room!

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[Pat Furrie]

Isn’t this a bit short-sighted on Avid’s part? We bought a Unity and an AirSpeed to tie together our five Newscutter suites. Every effort is being made to move completely away from video tape and have all material exist and be used as digital files across out network. It’s crazy to take the edited content and dub it to tape in order to have it captioned, then re-digitize the material. Even if it doesn’t go to tape, having to run it through an external encoder is still just not right.

Doing closed captioning for many of us is a necessity, not a luxury.

Pat Furrie
WESH-TV, Orlando