Mac Caption

Within the last month, my church has stepped up from a PC running Adobe Premiere to a G5 Quad, using FCP, with a Black Magic DeckLink Extreme. We produce a show for a local NBC affiliate. We purchased this system to be able to close caption our program. We are using Mac Caption, which we can import into FCP, but we can't get the captions to show when we output to DV. I've read several of the posts mentioning cropping, rendering, etc., but none seem to help us. Can anyone help?

you must use MacCaption only after you have finished editing your video in FCP
in FCP:
finish your edit
export as a DV file
in MacCaption:
open the DV file, add the captions, and save
in FCP:
create a new empty DV sequence
import the new captioned copy of the DV file and edit into the new sequenece
output to tape... do not render
The method you are trying to use, where you import the captions from MacCaption into the NLE, to place them, does not work with Final Cut Pro. It is not currently on the compatability list. The Decklink hardware supports it, but Final Cut Pro does not. When you "render" the file created by FCP will not contain the line21 encoded captions.
sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but that does seem to be the current situation with FCP and Closed Caption support.
Best Regards
Andy

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