[Dexter Craig]

Is there any way to retain the Line 21 caption information in the Premiere Workflow?

Here’s my situation:

I’ve received a master NTSC DVCam tape that has the Line 21 captions. I’ve captured that footage to an AVI in Premiere Pro CS3 (Windows). When I put that AVI on a timeline and play out via firewire through my DSR45 deck to an NTSC monitor, the closed captions still play.

Problem is when I add a lower third, dissolve, or color correction — anything that needs to be rendered — the Line 21 info vanishes.

Is there a setting I’m missing to keep my Line 21 info? Any way to keep that CC info in the file until output?

Any guidance is appreciated!

Thanks,
Dex

[Dexter Craig]

Hi, Jeff —

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll check that out when I get back on Encore. A little frightening that we have to edit our registry to get the software to work properly, but, hey…. It’s windows.

I actually deleted the files and rebuilt the DVD, as well, and it still hung up in transcode. So my solution turned out to be to reauthor the thing in Encore 1.5. Worked like a charm. Glad I kept 1.5 still installed on my machine after the upgrade!

– Dex

[Dexter Craig]

Did you all ever figure this one out? A colleague of mine is having exactly the same issue and we can’t figure out how to get him moving along….

Thanks!
Dex