FCP – removing Closed Caption Data?

[Shane Ross]

Well, FCP does this automatically…especially if you captured the footage and then rendered it. GONE. Most people want to retain this, and retaining it is the tricky part. Losing it…easy.

Shane

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[Evan John]

Thanks Shane. I was having the opposite problem though. I just spoke with another editor at my network, and to get rid of the closed captions I had to crop the top portion of the shots. All footage was captured from digibeta using an AJA Kona LHe.

The problem with the particular shots I was working with was the closed captions contained expletives, and considering the promos are for on-air, this was not going to fly.

At the top of the shots there are white dashes that can be seen from the FCP canvas window, but not from the external monitor. These dashes contain the CC info, so basically it had to be cropped out, or alternatively have a black solid covering it. All is good now!

– Evan