[Karlton Wu]

Not that one, try 608CC1. A kind reminder: 9.0d supports
Closed Captioning only for HD XDCAM MXF.

[Karlton Wu]

Then you are talking about Roll-up Style Closed Captioning.

Your Markup will look like:

{RU2}{CR}{R15In00Wh}{TabOff1}New Text

{RU3}{CR}{R15In00Wh}{TabOff1}New Text

{RU4}{CR}{R15In00Wh}{TabOff1}New Text

The one in your picture is {RU4}, i.e. you see three lines.

[Karlton Wu]

I am not sure I understand your need. Are you talking about
Paint-On style Closed Captioning?

A Paint-on Style markup will look like
{RDC}{R14In04Wh}Row 1 Text{R15In04Wh}Row 2 Text
If needed, you can insert {TH} to emulate typing delays,
like
{RDC}{R14In04Wh}R{TH}o{TH}{TH}w 1 Text{R15In04Wh}Row 2 Text

You can save it as template so you do not have to type
the markup again.RDC stands for Resume Direct Captioning.

Nowadays, people use Pop-up style most.Vegas does auto
Pop-up markups if users input only texts.

[Karlton Wu]

>>Then when I do a save as after having added captioning, Vegas saves a file with an SCC extension.
No, Vegas will not save a file with an SCC extension.
At present, the SCC file is created while rendering.

>>This is horribly cumbersome if I’m understanding anything at all. It means about a dozen steps to add one sentence and then having done all that, there is no way to preview or see what I’ve done.

Cumbersome? Maybe. Please tell me one less cumbersome except spending
big bucks on CC service.

How come a dozen steps to add one sentence?
First Step, listen to a piece of audio;
Second, create a command Marker at desired location;
Third, select or type command type 608CC1.
(You can save as template to save your future typing)
Fourth, type the sentence.
Fifth, click OK, that is it.

To see what you’ve done, zoom in the timeline if necessary.
Playback the audio, you can easily check the text correctness and timing because the marker position is when the text to show, and
the text is displayed right beside the marker. If you just want to read through all the text for typos, do it in Edit Details.

To do transcription and add timecode is always time-consuming, that
is why closed caption service costs about $6 per minute with accuracy about 95%.

To make life easier, Vegas reuses existing closed caption data like
importing SCC file and scanning media file for CC. Vegas will import .SRT file and QuickTime caption file in the future.

Vegas allows editing and adjusting timecode for CC to achieve 100% accuracy.

You are right, we need a training video for Closed Caption.

[Karlton Wu]

A Closed Caption(CC) display needs at least two elements:
the text and the time to display.

Vegas does not require you have a text or transcript file beforehand. You can
listen to the audio slice by slice, for each slice, you insert
a CC marker, then type or paste the text for that slice. You can drag
that CC marker around to sync with audio. If you already have
the transcript, you may still need to create empty CC Markers for timing purpose, then use Edit Details to copy and paste text for each CC marker.

If you have a time-stamped transcript, please provide a sample format. We could import it automatically in the future like we import .SCC files.

In future versions, Vegas will import/export .SRT and .SUB files which can be used in YouTube.

In short, Vegas can decode, create, edit and encode CC. Even if
a media file comes with embedded CC, you can still use Vegas to check and make corrections (like timing, correcting words, adding missing text etc.).

[Karlton Wu]

Hi Roger,

There are several ways to do Closed Captioning:

1) If you have a .SCC file, you can import it, then you
can edit the timing and the text, you even can reformat
the caption using markup.

2) If you have a media file comes with CEA608 closed caption,
the closed caption will be extracted and stored in a .scc file
in the folder of the media file.

3) Create Closed Caption from scratch: insert command marker,
choose command type as one of 608CC1, 608CC2, 608CC3, 608CC4.
Type in your text (according to your audio) in Comments of Command Properties Dialog. The text will default to pop-up style markup.
You can modify the markup as you wish. Please keep in mind,
608CC1 is for primary language while 608CC3 is for secondary language.

4) There are many good things to come:
a) Export Closed Caption as YouTube .SRT; The test results can be seen if you search karltonwu68 in YouTube.
b) Automatically Up-convert CEA608 to CEA708;
c) Import .SRT as Closed Caption source, and other formats you may suggest.
d) MPEG2 Closed Caption support,was withdrawn at last minute due
to Codec stability.

Here is an excerpt of SCC file:

Scenarist_SCC V1.0

00:00:22;22 9420 94f2 54c8 c1ce cb20 d94f d5ae 9420 942c 942f

00:00:25;21 9420 94d0 d94f d552 20c2 4c45 45c4 49ce c780 9470 c8c1 d320 d354 4fd0 d045 c4ae 9420 942c 942f

00:00:27;22 942c

00:00:32;08 9420 94f4 4954 a7d3 20ce 4f54 c849 cec7 ae80 9420 942c 942f

00:00:33;15 9420 94f2 4954 a7d3 204a d5d3 5420 c120 d343 52c1 5443 c8ae 9420 942c 942f

00:00:36;21 9420 9452 c452 ae20 4c45 4354 4552 2c20 57c8 4fd3 4520 c845 c1c4 94f2 49d3 2049 ce20 54c8 c154 20c2 4f54 544c 45bf 9420 942c 942f