file to save closed captioning in for broadcast television

[John Rofrano]

[James Thomas] “I would like to know what file to “save as” the final project in to burn to a dvd, for transfer to beta sp without losing the closed captioning signal for broadcast.”

Vegas Pro supports closed captioning embedded in XDCAM HD/XDCAM HD422 MXF and MPEG-2 files. DVD doesn’t support closed captioning so unless you are just using the physical DVD as a data medium, you won’t get closed captioning preserved.

I would ask the house that’s transferring to Beta SP what formats they support. Vegas can export a Scenarist .scc file with the captions and as long as the transfer house has the ability to read this file in (most should) you should be OK with any format.

~jr

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[James Thomas]

Thanks John, that’s one of the best answers I’ve recieved to date. I think I got lucky, the tv station has a FTP site that I can send a data file to. Now I need to know what services are out there that I can use to upload the file. Any suggestions?

[Surya Samaddar]

I am answering this questions only for the readers
I know by now you must have found some solution

softwares for uploading to FTP servers:

CuteFTP
FileZilla
SmartFTP
CoffeeCup

these apps are free, you can download, install and be happy

Surya Samaddar
Freelance Sound Recordist and Post Production Sound Designer
Editor, DVD Authoring, Closed Captioning