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What we used to be able to do in FCP 6 re: Closed Captioning
In FCP 6, we used to be able to ingest DV material with closed captions via firewire and retain the Line 21 captions. As long as nothing was rendered on the timeline we could then play these files back directly from the FCP 6 timeline via firewire thru a 1500 deck and see the closed captions on a monitor that had a closed caption reader.
We have recently upgraded to snow leopard and FCP 7 and this function has gone away. We have hundreds of DV files in our archive that have line 21 captions. These play with captions from a timeline in FCP 6. These files will not play and pass captions from a FCP 7 DV timeline.
Please confirm or tell me there is a simple new preference setting somewhere that we are not checking.
Note: this has nothing to do with the new Print to Video function that allows for insertion of closed captioning data. or does it?
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Hi Robert,
Unfortunately this is one of the changes that Apple made to Final Cut Pro 7 when implementing their new closed captioning workflows. FCP7 adds the ability to insert new closed captions into DV video when printing to tape via firewire, but it lost the ability to preserve existing DV captions. (This only applies to DV/DVCPRO and not analog formats that use a true line 21.)CPC’s MacCaption software does have a workaround for this issue. It can extract the original DV captions from your captured files and convert them to the new format needed for FCP7. It even supports batch conversion and scripting if you need to process a large database of DV files.
If you need to edit these videos we have an Assemble Captions feature that can automatically conform the new caption track to your edited sequence. Or, if you only need to convert the existing captions without any changes, you can use one of our lower cost Encoder versions.
Please contact CPC for more information.
Hope this helps,
Jason Livingston
CPC Closed Captioning
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