Decklink and closed captioning

[David Priest]

We’ve been running MacCaption with our DeckLink systems since the first of the year and have no problems. It seems best to provide the MacCaption station with a full-res QT and then let MacCpation render the finished Closed Captioned QT. Mostly we do three line Roll Up Cpations that are occassionally repositioned to account for on-screen graphics. No complaints from broadcasters.

Also, the people at MacCpation have been great and they’ve had three upgrades so far this year (all free.)

Email if you need further detailed information.

Mac Pro, G5’s, FCP et al.

[Jason Levy]

Thanks for that information David. I’d email but I don’t see an email address… so a couple more questions here if you have time.

In terms of workflow I gather you are dedicating a specific station to do the captioning. How long does it take to do one show? How long does the render take?

Thanks

Jason

[David Priest]

We have MacCaption software installed on four different machines. The program requires the USB dongle to run so we just move it around to an open computer.

Generally, our person can close caption a simple (ie. music, narrator, one voice at a time like on-screen interviews or actor) one-hour show in about 5 hours if we have a transcript of the show before hand. She was much longer the first time or two but is gradually getting faster and faster. We only do about one show a month.

A render for a one-hour show takes about 30 minutes on a Dual2G G5.

David Priest
Editor, Shadow Play FIlms

[Jason Levy]

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