Non-English Closed Captioning

Hi there,
I need to create closed captions for a video that aren't in English (Bengali and Hindi). Is there a way to add CC that aren't in English in Premiere Pro? In the captioning window the Bengali shows up correctly but on the program monitor the letters just show up as boxes.
Any ideas on a workaround?
Thanks!

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closed captions works on my TV via cable and via DVD, but I am not getting closed captions with my itunes purchases on my appletv.
What is wrong with AppleTV?
This is 2013 and I am not encouraged by the apple support community statements from 2009 & 2010, does Apple have this feature fixed in 2013 or are you waiting for the second coming of Steve?

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Page reference: Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Closed Captioning

Hi WarithNiallah,
First of all, Premiere Pro's closed captioning feature is not intended to be a replacement for closed captioning applications. The feature's intent is to only be able to edit them. I'm sorry that your expectation is that you could do all of your closed captioning work within Premiere Pro. If that is what you really want engineering to focus on, let them know here: http://adobe.ly/feature_request
I don't see any errors on the actual documentation per se, but if you do see any please let us know and we'll fix that.
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Kevin

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I've been working on producing a number of videos intended to be used as content in an iPad app for a Self-Guided Museum Tour which is under development by a non-profit Museum I work for. Many of the videos are intended to have closed captions for the hearing impaired.
Videos are being produced with Adobe Premier CC and exported as Quicktime .mov files with embedded closed captioning. These files play in all instances but in most of them, including the current IOS and Mac OS systems, the closed captioning is not visible. Tests indicate:
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Closed captioning IS visible when the .mov file is played on Quicktime Player 10.3 on a Mac running OS 10.9 as long as English subtitle is enabled.
Oddly, closed captioning IS visible the .mov file is played on an old copy of Quicktime Player 7 running OS 10.9.5 as long as "show closed captioning" is enabled.
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Need help if anyone can help figure out how to make closed captions work with the IOS video player.

Problem solved with a little help from a Senior Apple Tech Support person.
Essentially, what has to be done in the current versions of both OSX and IOS is to configure the playback device's accessibility settings beforehand:
IOS 8.1.1
Settings–General–Accessibility–Subtitles and Captioning–turn on "Closed Captions+SDH"
OSX 10.9.5 and OSX 10.10:
System Preferences–Accessibility–scroll down to Captions and click on "Prefer Closed Captions and SDH”
You can also change the font style for captioning from these menus.
Once done, a small caption icon that looks like a text bubble on the bottom of the screen when videos are loaded, now has a third option besides "Off" and "Automatic". If the video being played has captioning embedded it may read something like "English CC", as it does in the case of my Premier CC-generated, embedded closed captions. Once that is selected, the captions play properly. [Note that in IOS 8.1.1, the caption icon only appears when a video is played in full screen mode.]

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I've rented a few movies on iTunes and noticed that none that I've rented so far are closed captioned nor offer subtitles in English as an alternative. Yes, the setting is set to show these by default, and I go in to double check anyway -- it's on.
Why is this? If I were to rent this on DVD, these same movies would be captioned. Is this not available when digitally downloaded?

Hi daisyintampa,
Well, normally movies from the iTunes Store don't include such feature. Despite that, sometimes you'll find a few movies with CC and/or Subtitles...
Definitely all this rules are imposed by the Studios and not by Apple! However, you may want to leave feedback for Apple, by using [this link|http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html].
Hope this helps!
Francisco

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I'm from Germany, working in Heidelberg and I've got a problem! I would so much appreciate if somebody would have a solution for it.
Nobody could help me yet - no Adobe support via chat, no Adobe support via phone. They said the forum is my last chance. I'm frustrated. But a solution is important for my ongoing project...
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Embedded closed captions not viewable

I have read most of the threads on embedded closed captions in this forum and after experiencing similar problems I have come to the conclusion that embedding captions in QT .mov files is not properly implemented. I could be wrong. I hope someone can show that is the case.
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Thanks for the posting on the forums here. I downloaded your file and I looked at it in the following places:
GENERAL PLAYBACK MAC
10.8.5 (12F45)
with QuickTime 10.3
I could see the closed captioning in the player.
with PPRO CC 2014
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10.9 (13A603)
with QuickTime 10.3 (727.1)
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with PPRO CC 2014
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10.9 updated to 10.9.5 (13F34)
with QuickTime 10.3 (727.4)
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This is not just a failure of PPRO embedded closed caption MOVs, but also embedded MOVs from other closed caption authoring solutions like Telestream, and Annotation Edit.
I can log a bug on my side, but the problem is not in PPRO -- I'd check with Apple on this.
with PPRO CC 2014
Closed captioning intact and viewable in the app
VLC MEDIA PLAYER
It appears from my quick testing with VLC Media Player -- VLC Media Player is not detecting embedded closed captions in files from PPRO, nor from other industry standard closed caption authoring solutions, like from Telesteam, they make MacCaption and Caption Maker. I also checked embedded files from Annotation Edit, another widely used caption authoring solution, and VLC Media Player does not detect embedded closed captioning in those files, either.
I encourage you to look on the side of VLC Media Player for the failure to display closed captions.
IPAD AIR PLAYBACK
In my testing, I did not test this equipment configuration. If you think you have a problem, please consider logging a bug.
Thanks again for posting here, I hope I answered your questions! If not, let me know, and I'll reply again.
Regards,
CM

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