FCP 7 and Closed Caption Support

[John Christie]

From reading AJA’s release notes for their latest driver, the files need to be .scc. They’re just text files, but mostly look to be hexadecimal.

Cheers

John Christie

[Mark Maness]

COOL!!!!

So, how would this work? Do you import the file thru the Kona Control Panel?

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Jason Livingston]

Hello Wayne and John,
.SCC files can be used in the new FCP for standard definition captioning such as for DV and DVD.

To caption material for DTV broadcast (HD or SD), you need to use the EIA-708 caption standard. However .SCC files do not include 708 caption data (only 608, the old analog standard).

MacCaption can import an .SCC file (or any other kind of caption file, or your raw script from a text file) and convert the captions into the 708 format so that you can print to HD or SD tape from your AJA Kona 3, Matrox MXO2, or Blackmagic Decklink cards. The workflow is slightly different depending on which card you use.

This page talks about AJA and the new FCP: https://cpcweb.com/hdtv/aja.htm

Also see: Matrox MXO2, Blackmagic Decklink

Your CaptionMaker software can be upgraded to the latest version of MacCaption to gain this capability. Please see our website or contact us for more details.

Hope this helps!

Jason Livingston
CPC

[Mark Maness]

Thanks for responding, Jason.

Can’t I do this with the current version of CaptionMaker software? It claims it does HD. Am I missing something?

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Kevin Monahan]

You select the file in Edit to Tape or Print to Tape, if that’s what you’re looking for.

Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Jason Livingston]

Hi Wayne, it depends on what version of CaptionMaker you have. I suggest you give CPC a call or e-mail me privately for more information.

Thanks!

Jason Livingston
CPC

[Mark Raudonis]

Which networks are we talking about here?

Names please!

Mark

[Jim Calahan]

Closed Captioning is a FCC requirement so pretty much all of them.

Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento

[Dan Mingo]

Is it possible with the new version of final cut or compressor to embed closed captions into a file format that can be given to stations? We have some stations asking for a file rather than tape, and we would love to do it but we want to make sure our captions would be on the file and play from the file. We want to upgrade but won’t until we can find out for sure if this is possible. Please advices. Thanks.

[Mark Maness]

Uh….

You have to have a closed caption file to do this, and you can save it into any format using CPC-700 or higher versions.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com