[John Watts]

Not an option as an independent software anymore. They’ve become part of a more expensive service. I simply can’t believe it is so hard to find a solution for this.

[John Watts]

Thanks.

I will be using a combination of HDMI and SDI. And I might could raise the budget some. I feel much better using scopes on the monitor vs scopes within PPro, but, that is just a “me” thing. I will be making a decision before too long.

[John Watts]

UPDATE:

I did find my project. Weirdly, though, while searching I discovered an old library was causing FCP to disconnect every drive on my system! I will delete that project. Anyway, as you were.

[John Watts]

Shutter Encoder does work for this task. Thanks for the tip.

[John Watts]

It is great for ingesting and rewraps, I love it. I need to find something for a PC.

[John Watts]

Very much thanks to everyone who has contributed. I am almost there.

During this downtime I updated to Big Sur and Premier 15.0. This has allowed me

to drop the .scc file on the timeline. However, i still need to export the caption file as an embedded CEA 608. The only options on Premier at export are the sidecar, or burn in video.

I find it difficult to understand why Adobe would give you all the functionality of laying down a captioning file, but, no way to truly embed it as a CEA 608 into a video file like mpeg2, Prores and the like.

Apple compressor is suppose to be able to do it, but, my limited experience with it is not giving me results I need.

Thanks again…

love the hive mind.

[John Watts]

We have to put out an MPEG 2 file for distribution.

I do have Apple Compressor.

Editing is done on Premier Pro.

I’ll give the compressor solution a shot and see how it works.

Thanks, I’ll update when I get a chance to test.

[John Watts]

We are already having the SCC file made out of house. I need a software to encode into the show. Everything I’m looking at is fairly expensive. I don’t expect PP to do that part.

[John Watts]

I can now report this problem as solved.

Although I thought that I had been properly clearing the media caches, apparently I was not.
Upon discovering there were nearly 21,000 files in there, and clearing them out, the problem went away. Those files went back to when the system was brand new.

Now editing is fast and snappy.

Thanks for the input.

John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 13.1
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS Mojave 10.14

[John Watts]

Many thanks. FCP brain fart in full there. It had been months since I opened it.
Still love it for my more creative work, though!

John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 13.1
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS Mojave 10.14