If you completely outsource it to automaticsync.com it costs slightly less than $200/content hour including transcript development and automated subtitle or caption file development in your choice of many file formats (see their site). I have had another vendor charge $800/hour for pretty much the same work. So that is the range.

@Dave - getting a txt file to insert into a music video. Seems Much Music requires CC in music videos.

@ChipGallo - I am being asked to provide an estimate. Never having been asked for this service, I have no clue on pricing. I do know Vegas can do it.

In short - being provided with the text, so no transcription. Client will provide music video as a MOV file and MM requires submission in CC'd HDCAM format.

The last bit I will have to discuss with MM to see what other format is acceptable for HD content, as I cannot do HDCAM tape output.

That's it in a nutshell.

Thanks for the advices so far.,
Tom

Our company charges around $300 if the text/doc file is provided. This includes an SD format tape (Digitbeta, etc). HDCam adds about another $100.

Dave T2

Can't provide you with pricing, but I'm in the process of subtitling several videos and can give you some workflow hints if you need them.

One important thing I've learned is that in the USA there is a difference between subtitles and closed captions, and Vegas handles them differently. I'm creating subtitles in Vegas because I can easily go from subtitles to CC, but not from CC to subtitles.

Guy

@Dave - thx .. that was about the ballpark I was thinking. HDCAM might be the showstopper unless I can deliver a DVD file XDCAM HD422. I don't have access to HDCAM equipment.

@Guy - thx for the offer - we could take this offline. Need CC and not subtitles. It's a Canadian broadcast standard. I have played around with CC and it doesn't look too tough to do. Any help graciously accepted.

Waiting for callback from MM on alternate format that I can deliver.

Tom

We did all of the captioning for the PBS series "Painting & Travel with Roger and Sarah Bansemer" with VASST Caption Assistant in Vegas Pro 10, then we sent XDCAM HD422 files on a hard drive to CaptionMax and they created the HDCAM tapes that we needed to send to PBS complete with captioning. CaptionMax was the only post house we found that accepted non-QuickTime files without charging extra (and we called everyone all over the US). So if you have to send HDCAM tapes, I can highly recommend CaptionMax as being "Vegas friendly" to work with.

~jr