Final Cut Pro 7 Closed Captioning/Hardcoding question

Hi everyone, I have a question regarding the closed captioning that final cut 7 now allows. I'm using movcaptioner to create SCC files to import into final cut for closed captioning of a broadcast television series. However, this show is also to be broadcast with another language track besides english with hardcoded english subtitles. Is there any way to do this or any other application if I can't do it in final cut? It would be extremely beneficial to use the closed captioning as the english language subtitles for the foreign language version.
Thanks

If I understand your question, you want to re-use your SCC file.
My subtitle prep tool can do so (or even generate the .SCC)
http://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=products&pID=12
Then output to XML and have your subtitles as text generators in FCP.
Mind you, subtitling is very different from CC, so there will be some work.
(subtitles have two lines, while CC can go up to 4
Also, it's uncommon for subtitles to jump all over the screen.
There is a free demo, do toy with it.
hth,
Bouke
* Disclaimer, i AM the owner of the link provided, and i WILL make money on it! **

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