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Christopher Smith replied to the discussion Help...How to view MXF file's embedded closed captions in the forum Broadcasting

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:53:50 +0000

Reply to Help...How to view MXF file's embedded closed captions

Your frustration is industry-wide, and no one wants to solve the problem with an affordable tool.

Telestream makes an expensive tool (Switch) which allows you to view MXF files, and even drop in subtitle tracks to verify they line up with audio and video. Switch also displays any of the 608 or 708 caption tracks, and provides info on all the tracks…

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Christopher Smith replied to the discussion blu ray authoring for Mac user in the forum DVD Authoring

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 07:40:07 +0000

Reply to blu ray authoring for Mac user

Blu-rays like you see in stores are created ‘manually.’ Unfortunately there is no software (and never was) which provides easy programming of BDs as there was for DVDs with Spruce/DVD Studio Pro. Creating a ‘real’ Blu-ray involves Java programming, and the process is the DVD authoring equivalent of programming a computer in assembly language.

If…

Christopher Smith replied to the discussion Best DVD Authoring Software? in the forum DVD Authoring

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 07:32:15 +0000

Reply to Best DVD Authoring Software?

Sadly, fully-functional DVD software (meaning that you can create menus, scripts, subtitle tracks, audio tracks, and other programming) has not been sold in many years.

My setup has macOS 10.12 Sierra running a virtual machine of 10.6 Snow Leopard Server, the last version of macOS which could run DVD Studio Pro without missing parts of the…