Closed Captions in CS5.5

I need to find out from someone who knows exactly what ALL the capabilities are of CS5.5 Closed Captioning. the blog and few other pages i have read have been fairly vague.
The only thing i know for sure is that i can attach a .scc file to a sequence and enable viewing in my program monitor and that worked when i tested it.
What else does it do? can i then export the sequence out to an mpeg or xdcam mxf file with the captions intact? are they line 21 608 captions for SD exports? are they digital 708 captions for HD exports? can i record them to tape? DV? SDI? (I have an Axio card with SDI output)
If i Export them does the display setting need to be enabled to be exported?
Can i capture video with 608 captions and see them decoded in my program monitor during playback? Then export back out to tape or encode as a file with captions intact?
If i import an XDCAM HD MXF file with 708 captions and export it back out after editing are they going to remain intact?
We are a tapeless broadcaster and would prefer to be able to handle everything within our normal file based workflow. We normally render out mpeg files from premiere for our seachange broadcast server for all of our SD channels, and we render out MXF files for our Snell HD server.
I have been trying to experiment with all of this for a few days and have not had much luck other then viewing the .scc file.
thanks!

Digitlman,
I'll attempt to answer your specific questions:
If i use another program to create a .scc file and attach it to a sequence, then what are my options for printing that to a tape or exporting it to a file and having the captions intact?
You can print to tape two ways.
1. By connecting a FireWire cable to your computer, connect the other end to a DV deck, DV camera, or MediaConverter (Sony DVMC-DA1 like device) to other recorder (Betacam) and then crash record. It's only standard def, and not terrible accurate.
2. Purchase a product from one of the 3rd party vendors that can embed and output the caption data via SDI or HD-SDI. Todd posted this link, http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/04/closed-captions-in-adobe-premiere-pro-c s5-5.html , that listed some vendors, perhaps there are more now, or an updated driver for your Matrox Axio? I don't know off hand, and I would suggest calling Matrox or browsing their web page for updated drivers.
In Premiere Pro CS5.5 there is no way to export to a file and maintain the caption data from the source media, or from a sequence. As I say that, there is possible one exception, but probably not of use. If a user imports a DV clip, and exports it as DV (perhaps trimmed or metadata added) it should still contain caption data, as we'll copy the compressed frames instead of recompressing which will result in a reduction in quality.
The second is the ability to ingest from tape or import a file that already has visible line21 608 captions on it. (like the picture i posted previously)
In this situation how does premeire retain those captions and what are my options for printing that to a tape or exporting it to a file and having the captions intact?
Premiere Pro CS5.5 does not decode captions from imported or captured media. The caption data from imported or captured clips is not retained during export or print to tape.
The last more difficult option is what if we have a SD file with visible line21 608 captions and we want to upconvert it to HD 1920x1080 and add ears on the sides, can we retain the captions in the HD file output? (MXF preferably) You say 5.5 will convert from 608 to 708, does that apply to this situation?
I believe this has been answered above, but no. Premiere Pro CS5.5 doesn't decode line 21 caption data, nor embed into the exported HD file. The 608 to 708 conversion code is currently used when printing to tape, but could be used for future features.
If that does not then could we extract the captions with other software and attach that .scc to the sequence and then export the 1080i XDCAM HD MXF file with captions intact for our broadcast server?
Yes and no. You could extract the caption data from line 21 with a variety of tools, and then attach that to a sequence. But the export would have to be via print to tape, not file export.
fyi: we have Matrox Axio LE cards in our editors and i have put a clip in with line21 608 captions and played out realtime SDI to our Snell server and it passed through the captions just fine.
That is good to here.
Sincerely,
Jerry Scoggins
Sr. Computer Scientist
Adobe Premiere Pro

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