JohnnyRoy-Export SCC file only

Former user wrote on 3/29/2013, 10:07 PM
I found another program that allows creation of captions. I didn't care for the interface and there were some other things I didn't like but I wrote the author and he is basically using calls to MacPoodle's command line Closed Captioning tools.

MacPoodle has one that is an SCC creator. Are you familiar with it? Would it be possible to write a script that would export to his SCC command line from within Vegas?

Dave T2

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/30/2013, 10:20 AM
> "MacPoodle has one that is an SCC creator. Are you familiar with it?"

It looks like those tools are designed to extract SCC files from video streams that already have the captions embedded. I"m not sure why you would need a script. Just run the tool on the video file that Vegas produces and it will extract the captions into a .SCC file.

> "Would it be possible to write a script that would export to his SCC command line from within Vegas?"

Yes, but why bother if you have the caption markers on the timeline already? You could just write a script to convert caption markers to SCC format. The reason I didn't do this in Caption Assistant is because Vegas Pro already performs this conversion when it renders so I didn't want to duplicate functionality and confused customers as to which to use and what was the difference. In order to add this, I would have to learn the encoding format that SCC files use. I'll look into it.

~jr
Former user wrote on 3/30/2013, 1:19 PM
He has a few to create SCC files

•SUBRIP2SCC.EXE: Command-line utility to convert Subrip subtitles to SCC format.
•VOBSUB2SCC.EXE: Command-line utility to convert raw VobSub-created data to SCC format.
•PAS2SCC.EXE: Command-line utility to convert CCWriter (DOS) closed files to SCC format.
•RAW2SCC.EXE: Command-line utility to convert raw closed caption data to SCC format.

I already have CC Extractor to extract captions. My question was pertaining to since he has already written the conversion to SCC, could a script be written that uses his conversion from an export in Vegas thus saving a fake render. The writer of the other caption program I looked at seems to be doing this. He didn't seem to know much about the actual process of conversion.

I know time is money, so I was being more curious than requesting that you do this. I just don't know how to script, but I could try to learn.

Dave T2
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/30/2013, 1:58 PM
> "could a script be written that uses his conversion from an export in Vegas thus saving a fake render."

Yes. What were you thinking that the export would be? i.e., how would you get the information from Vegas to his program?

(btw, you could always contact me via email from the forum or via VASST ultimatesupport if you want to discuss further)

~jr