Closed Captioning Methods

We want to do our closed captioning for TV standards in house.  We are on PC.  What programs are out there that are under say, $500 that can do this?  We are on CS5.5 and want to take advantage of its ability to handle supported CC files.
All the programs that are in the free-$100 range aren't able to save the files in the format that Premiere needs.  I think they are more for web-friendly stuff.

Lane
I too look high and low for a cheap solution for captioning, but never found it. I was forced into purchasing a copy of Mac Caption Pro, thanks to the Federal law that takes place in January.
If you are going to originate captioning, Mac Caption Pro is the only solution on the Mac, that can handle the work load at a lower cost, than the hardware solution.
I considered it and investment!
Your only other solution is to check around locally, or here on these boards and hire it out. The only down side to this, is that you will eventually pay more over time than doing it in house.
I've been using Mac Caption Pro now for 3 years and it has many capabilities that make encoding captioning, on any medium, a snap.

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