Russ Sturgeon
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Please address the 708 captions issue. Vegas has a wonderful interface for captioning, but does not create valid 708 data.
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I have recently had a battle with my broadcaster. I assured them that Sony confirmed that Vegas was “uplifting the 608 captions to a 708 container”. Last year they were willing to FIX my MXF files that did not have valid 708 captions using the SCC file that Vegas created, this year they told me they would no longer do that. I took my files to another national broadcaster tech center to verify that my Sony Vegas Pro 13 MXF file had 608 and 708 compatible captions. They were able to show me that the 708 container actually contained random garbage. I am currently having a caption service convert my SCC file to an MCC file, and then using Adobe Premier Pro CC to encode the caption file into the MXF file. Adobe Premier Pro will show you the good data in the 608 container and the garbage in the 708 container. Waiting on a response from Sony.
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I am in a caption dilemma right now. I have been delivering a broadcast project to a distributor that accepts 608 captions for about 2 years now. Last year I started with another broadcaster who said my Vegas files did NOT contain valid 708 caption information. They agreed to take my SCC files from Vegas and fix my MXF stream. This year they told me they could no longer correct this for me. I took my stream to another national network tech center to verify there was a problem. They were able to show me that the MXF file that Vegas 13 pro created DID NOT have valid 708 data in the 708 container. If you open the MXF file created with Vegas 13 in Adobe Premier Pro CC, you will see that the 708 container exists, but it contains random garbage. I am having to have my SCC file converted to a MCC file with a captioning service, and then rendered back together, the MXF Vegas Pro file and the MCC file, with Adobe Premier Pro CC. This is being accepted by my distributor. Sony has not been able to tell me a proceedure that will verify Vegas Pro 13 is creating a valid 708 container with good information in it. The test they described only indicates that something exists, and they can not choose if they are displaying the 608 or 708 captions. I need a better solution.???