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Open caption creation using Vegas 11
I have several DVDs with closed captions encoded. When I import the VOB using Vegas DVD camcorder disk and add the SCC files the OVERLAY selection in the preview provides me with captions in my preview window. How can I render that captioned video to a WMV resulting in open captions for my client?
I am aware of Vegasaur, not really the same look.. and a lot more work. I’ve tried screen capturing with so so results. Usually screen caps don’t like to do 30 fps. Has anyone written a script to make this happen? Is there an easier way to do this?
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You can also take a look at Vasst Caption Assistant:
https://vasst.com/store/sony-vegas-plug-ins/caption-assistant-closed-caption-plugin-for-sony-vegas-pro.aspxSteve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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Thanks Steve, I checked out Caption Assistant last night as I looked for utilities that might be helpful. I don’t think Cap Ass will give me open caps that I’m looking for for this current project, but I will absolutely pick up that software the next time I start a caption creation job. It’s very slick.
Looks like the solution to the current project involves putting the captions over green screen and doing a screen capture of that. Bringing that back to the timeline and chromakeying the caption over the orig video and rendering a WMV file from that.
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> “I am aware of Vegasaur, not really the same look”
Text Generation Wizard can convert closed captions to open captions using the selected text preset. You can create your own preset with desired feel and look (font, size, position etc.)
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Yes, I’ve used Vegasaur Text Generation Wizard. It is pretty awesome, but I’m looking for the same “look and feel” of a closed caption display. That is to say.. a white font with a black field behind it, the same look of a closed caption display, but burned in.
While Vegasaur Text Gen Wiz can give me any font, size, color, shadow, edge… it can’t give me the black bars that frame the type the way a closed caption decoder does. In addition, the videos I’m working with have already been closed captioned. The text has been placed around the screen dodging pie-charts and lower third graphics. Vegasaur Text Gen Wiz created text would need to be re-positioned one by one to fit into the same screen area as the original captions.
My solution.. was to do a screen cap, using Vegas 11 preview screen, of the CC over green screen. Then chroma key that over the original video. Presto! Open captions that look like closed captions.
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