Closed Captions in FCP

[Arnie Schlissel]

You can try MacCaption. It starts at $2k.

https://www.cpcweb.com/e-captioning/

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[Jeremy Garchow]

What Arnie says. MacCaption is totally sweet.

[Thompson Coles]

Not to continue the broken record, but Mac Caption. I haven’t found another software that can touch it. It is pricey, but when we we’re looking at 500-800$ per half hour show the math gets really easy when you are talkin’ about 13+ shows a year. The learning curve isn’t too steep and the company is easy to work with and constantly upgrading. (i have no connection to the company whatsoever)

[Jim Calahan]

Now if we could just get the HD captions to work the same way.

Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yeah, it doesn’t work they same way as Line21 in SD, but MacCaption will do HD captioning and is getting better at it every day.

Jeremy

[Devin Crane]

In regards to HD and Captioning it’s not MacCaption’s fault but AJA and Decklink havn’t seen the need to open up the auxiliary non-video lines where CC is contained in HD.

[Steve Cohen]

Mac Caption works great for us too.

Steve Cohen
Senior Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I think it’s FCPs fault, no? I seem to remember that it’s FCP that strips the video signal, not so much AJA or decklink. If they could do it, why wouldn’t they? I don’t think Avid has this cc in HD either, FWIW.

It’s not an easy process, that’s for sure.

Jeremy

[Thompson Coles]

we purchased the HD version too, and were really disappointed about the “lack” of HD. I’ve talked to the Tech guys and they say that a big announcement/breakthrough it coming in the 708/608 captioning for HDSDI. (probably NAB) I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully to do captions on XDCAM disc as they describe, but i think the fault is mine. It seems the the Aja and Blackmagic problems may be over soon. i hope