Closed Captioning

mianoel123 wrote on 7/30/2006, 5:29 PM
People have helped with my initial question on Closed Captioning on Vegas. It doesn't work but what is working fine is to use a program called "Subtitle Workshop" which is free to create subtitles and use a downloaded perl script calld "subrip2scc.exe" to convert the subtitless to the closed caption "*.scc" file. Then I can load them easily into Adobe Encore and burn a DVD with CC1 captions. That works fine. I would also like to render to DV tape or over "Pro" formats. Since Encore is an Adobe product, can Premier Pro 7.0 accomplish rendering to Tape or DVD? Has anyone had success in that???

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bakerbud9 wrote on 7/30/2006, 5:57 PM
I used to work with Premiere, but that was a long time ago. It didn't have CC support back then, but I don't know if the current version does.

Its true that doing CC within Vegas is a pain. I don't know if you have DVD Architect or not, but it has excellent CC support. You can just drop the CC right into the timeline and then move them around with the mouse. It's a good solution for DVDs, but if you want to print to tape I don't know that it will really help you.

As far as I know, Sony software products only let you embed CC into Windows Media Files and DVDs. I don't believe there's any way to put "real" closed captioning into a DV file. Of course, you could always render the captions as text in the timeline, but then the CC becomes permanent part of the video image, and it sounds like that's probably not what you want.
mianoel123 wrote on 7/30/2006, 6:31 PM
the process I described above using Subtitle Workshop and then converting to CC via a program works great onto DVD. It produces true CC captions onto a DVD. It is my understanding that DVD architect is NOT CC but subtitles. DVD Architect does not support true CC1. But Adobe Encore does. FYI
johnmeyer wrote on 7/30/2006, 8:40 PM
It is my understanding that DVD architect is NOT CC but subtitles.

You are correct. People often get Closed Captioning (the vertical blanking interval -- VBI -- line 21 text that is mandated by the FCC for hearing impaired) and subtitles, which are strictly a DVD technology. Vegas knows nothing about closed captioning and is pretty clueless about all the other wonderful data that is available and that could be amazingly useful (camera settings, for instance -- imaging having a noise reduction fX that could read the camera information and when the exposure is wide open, would increase the fX setting automatically).

Question: How do you like Adobe Encore? Have you used DVD Architect, and if so, how does Encore compare?
bakerbud9 wrote on 7/31/2006, 12:05 PM
Yes, I think both you and johnmeyer are right... I was confusing CC with the DVD subtitles.

I'm pretty sure then that none of the Sony products have any support at all for CC.
mianoel123 wrote on 7/31/2006, 6:17 PM
Don't have an opinion of Adobe Encore nor DVD Architect but I just use Encore to load my closed caption file into the Video and it works fine. Thanks guys