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Using Caption Assistant to caption Window Media Files
I am running a trial version of Vasst Caption Assistant. My project involves adding closed captions to window media files, .wmv files.
I have captioned .wmv in Vegas before, just using the “INSERT” command marker as a TEXT. When wmv files are rendered, this produces a caption panel below the Window Media Player, and the captions play there.
Using Caption Assistant I don’t have the option to make the Command Markers as TEXT, just 608CC1, CC2, CC3, 608CC4. the captions don’t play out in Windows Media Player. I can click on individual command markers and edit the marker to be TEXT. This works except spaces show up as [br] characters, and each marker has to be edited one at a time. Any solutions to make Caption Assistant work to caption .wmv files?
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[Larry Brewer] “Using Caption Assistant I don’t have the option to make the Command Markers as TEXT, just 608CC1, CC2, CC3, 608CC4. the captions don’t play out in Windows Media Player.”
What you need to do is use Caption Assistant to create 608CC1 captions. Then when you’re finished, go to:
Tools | Scripting | Export Closed Captions for Windows Media Player
and Vegas Pro will create the WMP captions for you.
~jr
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please excuse my ignorance, but what do I do with the WMP file?
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[Larry Brewer] “please excuse my ignorance, but what do I do with the WMP file?”
It creates a .smi file that contains the captions and a .asx file which contains the HTML to run the WMV with the SMI captions file. Just double-click on the ASX file and it will start the Windows Media Player with your video and the closed captions.
~jr
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Thanks John,
I was about 5 mins ahead of your answer when I figured it out. Apparently the files also need to be in the same folder and share the same filename correct?
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[Larry Brewer] “Apparently the files also need to be in the same folder and share the same filename correct?”
You can edit the ASX file to change the name and location of the files but it is HTML-like so it must point to the files. The default is to have them in the same folder with the same name.
~jr
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Thanks for that info John!
Next issue, and this is one I had thought I had worked out long ago when I first started captioning.
The issue has to do with apostrophes.
After captioning with CCA and during playback in WMPlayer, every use of an apostrophe is displayed as a question mark in the caption area beneath the WMPlayer screen. such as … We?ll, or I?m. or aren?t…
My script comes in in MS Word. I am aware of the “smart quotation” issue with word docs and addressed that before I even started. After the first attempt at captioning, I used the CCA text editor to export the entire caption list, I pasted it into NotePad and resaved it. I then copied it from notepad and pasted it back into CCA text editor. I then clicked the “PROCESS” button, but I’m not sure why, and all my timecodes went to 00:00:00:00. I re-did the caption marker placements and exported the captions for Windows Media..
Same problem, question marks where apostrophes are supposed to be.
What am I missing here?
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