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FCP and Closed Captioning by 2006!!!
Well 2006 is almost here and for all of us who submit programming for broadcast you know what that means…..closed captioning!!!!!
Basically I’m looking for any informaion/advice that anyone has for meeting the CC requirments. Where can I get my program CC’d, wht kind of comapnies do CC, cost, etc…
Most importantly, can we be doing CC ourselves? What kind of hardware/software would we need?
Is there some sort of plug-in for FCP or any other MAC app. that will do CC?
Or, if we send a master tape out to be CC’d, can we then capture that tape to FCP, re-insert different commercials (we syndicate to 30 different markets, all with different commercials that need to be inserted every week) and then output that to tape with the CC’s still intact????? Or will we need to CC every show individually? (which would be hugly costly and time consuming for 30+ tapes a week!)
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I don’t mean to be too flippant but the topic of captioning and subtitles comes up about weekly. You can search the forum for many threads. Google for captioning and you will be taken to the US standards pages and all kinds of service providers. The open standards were written for 40 year old technologies, we can only hope the whole scene evolves.
The discussion will get interesting in a few more months as third party filter writers ramp up for QT7’s new capabilities, too.
I think closed captioning is still being encoded into line 21 on NTSC composite, interlaced. You can pull this into FCP and it will pass through the application until you render. Then that line is apparently stripped away and replaced. We’ve brought in captioned video, applied a filer to a few seconds of the clip, and output. The captions disappear at the place where the filter was rendered.
bogiesan
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