Creative COW | James Brooks | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/jamesbrooks/activity/ Activity feed for James Brooks. Tue, 05 May 2026 15:46:56 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 887a6bc28c2b4fdbb1f837b27a63bb92 James Brooks replied to the discussion SCC Frame Rate in the forum Adobe Premiere Pro https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/scc-frame-rate/#post-2475264 Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:01:07 +0000 Reply to SCC Frame Rate

The original defintion of SCC only supported drop frame and non drop frame 29.97 timecode/frame rate. A lot of modern software will look at the actual frame rate of the project, and combine the CC to be able to send it out over the same ‘second’ as the 29.97, so everything stays in sync. Not sure if Adobe does this, but that is why it is showing…

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]]> c56053ac00033659d025d7cb41b1b2ad James Brooks replied to the discussion Encoding captions into mpeg2 file. in the forum Adobe Premiere Pro https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/encoding-captions-into-mpeg2-file/#post-2440299 Fri, 27 Jan 2023 14:49:30 +0000 Reply to Encoding captions into mpeg2 file.

Hi John

You can try ccConvert that does that as well. Unfortunately, it is also end of life, but might be enough to do what you need. It will insert the captions as DTV/CC and SMPTE ANC stream from MCC.

Cheers, James

]]> 9b887a1796ca235d25817e5c1658b0c7 James Brooks replied to the discussion Playback / Edit Old 32-bit Avid Compressed files in the forum Adobe Premiere Pro https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/playback-edit-old-32-bit-avid-compressed-files/#post-2420827 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 19:33:22 +0000 Reply to Playback / Edit Old 32-bit Avid Compressed files

Hi Todd

The split screen is because Avid puts the interlaced fields one after another, rather than the more normal interleaved, and VLC does handle this format.

Cheers, James

]]> a04cdb0165895736ae2b0d22108b61ed James Brooks replied to the discussion Playback / Edit Old 32-bit Avid Compressed files in the forum Adobe Premiere Pro https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/playback-edit-old-32-bit-avid-compressed-files/#post-2420803 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:03:51 +0000 Reply to Playback / Edit Old 32-bit Avid Compressed files

videoQC supports a lot of old avid OMF/AAF/MXF/AVI files, and will deal with the fields correctly. You can download the free trial to make sure it works, and if it does, there is a converter built in to export a more modern MOV/MXF to work with.

Cheers, James

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