Closed Captioning on Encore 2.0

I'm new to Adobe Encore, in general, and a client wishes to have closed-captioned material from a BetaSP transferred to DVD with the closed-captioning intact. Firstly, is this possible? Also, where may I find details on how this is done?

If they can provide you with the CC script (Encore uses the Scenarist Closed Caption script format), make sure the timecode in the script starts at 0 hr instead of 1 hr.

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    Are you sure you are attempting to add it to Encore correctly? You do not "import" the file the way you ordinarily import assets.
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    From the user manual:
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    We are looking to upgrade to CS5 this year. Does Premiere allow us to insert closed captioning in a project and export as a mpeg2 file? We have to send our long form programming out of house for this now.
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    I think you might be right Stan. The video was supplied by a filmmaker, so I don't have any FCP projects.
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  • What is the best software for creating SCC/MCC files for closed captioning in Premiere pro?

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  • Closed Captioning with CS4 Premiere

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    Though for En CS5, this is the start:
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  • Closed captioning with Premiere Pro CS5.5, exported to wmv/mp4

    My employer suddenly has a push to be ADA compliant, so all videos going forward need to have captioning, and would prefer to have it closed captioned. I've read that you can add captions with Encore and output them to disc, but since all of the videos are posted online, nothing is burned to disc so that doesn't help. I also know you can use scc or mcc files to add closed captions to a broadcast stream, but since these aren't for broadcast, that doesn't help either.
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  • Closed Caption .SCC file

    I've seen a few topics similar to this but nothing current. Is there a way to get .SCC files to work in Encore 2.0. I spoke with tech support on the phone earlier and they basically brushed me off. I wasn't impressed.
    Regardless, I still find myself in the same situation. I've got and .SCC file containing my closed captions and it doesn't work. I don't get an error message. It just plain doesn't show up.
    Does anyone have a current resolution. According to the service that created my .SCC file, the timecode on my .SCC file already starts with 00 instead of 01 like some have said it should so there's nothing for me to go change.
    If there is anyone out there that has used .SCC files to for captioning, please tell me how you did it and explain it like you would to your 6 year old nephew. Also, if someone has captioned some other way, I'd love to know about it. My deadline is Tuesday and this thing is complete except for this lousy bug!

    Red,
    You are exposing yourself as someone a lot younger than me... ;) The command prompt is a relic from the olden MS-DOS days, way before Windows. :p
    There are two ways to access the
    command prompt
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    Start > Run and then type
    cmd.exe in the box and click on OK. The other is via
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    Make a copy of the ccadj.exe utility and put it in the "caption" folder.
    Make a copy of mycaptions.scc (I don't know the name of your actual scc file, but I mean your actual file) and also put it in the "caption" folder.
    Now start up the command prompt. An old-fashioned DOS window will appear.
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    C: and hit the enter key to make sure that you are working on the C: drive.
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    Type the ccadj instructions:
    ccadj -o-00:58:36:00 mycaptions.scc newcaptions.scc
    (The filename and the amount of offset are of course only examples)
    When the CCADJ utility is finished you can close the command prompt window and you should find a "newcaptions.scc" file in the "caption" folder.
    [EDIT: Joe's instructions seem to be for a route much simpler than mine. :)]

  • Possible bug with SCC / closed captions?

    Hi,
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    Like a lot of other people, I was having trouble getting Encore to properly encode closed captions. I tried over and over with no success. I tried placing the SCC in field 1, field 2, both at the same time, etc... I tried with and without re-encoding the already compliant MPEG-2 file being used as the source. Still no luck. No matter what I did I could not get Encore DVD to properly encode my SCC file on the new DVD.
    However, I did have one clue that eventually helped me figure out a workaround. Although I was not seeing the closed captions from my SCC file, I was seeing the original closed captions from the original VHS videotape my source file was captured from (I should note that even then, I wasn't seeing the original closed captions on standalone DVD players...I could only see them with PowerDVD...) So, I began to ask myself why Encore DVD was not overwriting the original line-21 captions with my new SCC file. It was as if Encore DVD was completely ignoring the new SCC file.
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  • Closed Captioning not showing up at specified In / Out points

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  • Free / open source Closed Captioning software?

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    my company does offer closed captioning as a service, Kelly is correct when he says the software is very expensive. as far as creating a .scc file with a text editor, i don't believe it is possible but i may be wrong. when opening a .scc or .cc file in a text editor, it does look like a bunch of "gobbledygook". but the .cap file that is used to create the .scc or .cc file looks a bit more manageable and could possibly be created without captioning software, again i may be wrong and have never attempted to do it. but say you could do it, you could save a bunch of money by creating the .cap file and giving it to someone who has the software to convert it to .scc or .cc. if that seems overwhelming and want to job it out, you could save some money by transcribing the video yourself which is a significant part of the cost when outsourcing. here is a sample of what a .cap file looks like:
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