Jason Livingston
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Layered in this case, but I’ll try a flattened file and see… thanks.
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I put a 16GB kit in my 15″ MBP 2011, it only cost about $140. For software development there is a very noticeable improvement from 8GB, and I expect that any 64-bit video editing or related programs will make good use of it.
I also put a 256GB SSD in the main HD slot, and moved the 750GB HD into an adapter that replaces the optical drive, which I almost never use. The optical drive is now in an external USB case which works perfectly for the rare occasion I need it. The result is extremely fast boot time and program access, but I still have access to bulk HD storage for large files while on the go.
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Hi Rafael,
Please contact me directly at CPC and I can talk about the prices and options.
jason (at) cpcweb (dot) com
Or call: 301-738-8487Best regards,
Jason Livingston
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Hi Rafael,
To do this you need MacCaption. We have a patented technology to create the line 21 captions as a digital video file. It is very simple to bring this into Final Cut and print to BetaSP tape with closed captions.You can read more about it here: https://www.cpcweb.com/nle/
Best regards,
Jason Livingston
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If you’re making the subtitles in MacCaption, try the Time Code > Set Blank Frames feature, set it to 6. This ensures at least 6 empty frames between any two subtitles. Not sure why Encore needs it but it seems to help get past this error.
However I still had an issue where straight play of the Blu-ray would work with subtitles, but any Next/Prev chapter or FFwd/Rew during playback would cause the subtitles to stop working until the disc was stopped and started again from the beginning.
Jason Livingston
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Hi Andrew,
The short answer is that you can’t really use a SCC file as-is for HD captioning. FCP used to give an error if you tried this, although in 7.0.3 the error message doesn’t appear for some reason.SCC files only contain CEA-608 data, which is the old SD analog standard. HD tapes need to have CEA-708 captions. Right now the only software that makes CEA-708 captions for FCP is MacCaption. So you should get your SCC file converted to CEA-708 by a caption service that uses MacCaption.
That doesn’t solve your monitoring issues, but at least there’s a chance of your tape being up to spec. 🙂
Best regards,
Jason Livingston
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[Bill Davis] “Personally I’m not sure what traditional bars mean in a digital world where every color values are typically represented by unchanging numeric data.”
What color is the numeric value (178, 234, 72)?
Well, is the color space RGB? sRGB? Adobe RGB? YUV? YCrCb?
Is it Linear? Log? Gamma 2.2? Gamma 1.8?
You can take a video tape, put it in 10 different decks, and within a very tight tolerance, get the same signal coming out of all 10. Try playing a video file in 10 different software, and see what you get.
Without special workarounds, an H.264 made by QuickTime on a Mac will play with the wrong gamma in QuickTime for Windows… and that problem has been around for YEARS. Last I checked even the movie trailers on Apple.com play with the wrong gamma in Windows.
You could argue that Bars & Tone is an old-fashioned way of accomplishing the goal of consistency, but its one that a lot of people are familiar with using. There are some standards for file-based exchange of color space info, but I haven’t seen anything reliably used across multiple vendors yet.
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Hi Dan,
The QuickTime CC track can only be read on a Mac, but if you have access to a Mac computer, you can download MacCaption and use the same CaptionMaker dongle to run MacCaption. Once imported, you can export the AAF for Avid closed captions, and it can be used on any Avid (Windows or Mac).Best regards,
Jason Livingston
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Hi Dan,
Media Composer 5 only reads HD captions from AAF and MXF files with a SMPTE 436M track. It will not read any HD captions from a .mov, regardless of the codec used.*You can use MacCaption to import the .mov HD closed captions and then convert them to a AAF file for use in Media Composer.
* Pedantically speaking, there used to be a way for DNxHD to have embedded VANC captions in a .mov container, but that method was extremely limited and it was deprecated by Avid when MC5 was released.
Best regards,
Jason Livingston
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Hi Max,
Sounds like a pretty convoluted way to get your show closed captioned. You might want to find a caption studio (such as CPC, or many others) who uses CPC’s MacCaption software which works natively with FCP (and Avid, and many other workflows). It depends on what format you need to deliver in the end, but there is probably a much simpler and more cost effective way to do it.Feel free to contact me or check out our website if you’d like more info.
Best regards,
Jason Livingston
CPC Closed Captioning