Close Captioning?

[JEEPn]

I know that when you tape a TV program that the close captioning works when you view the tape, how can you.. or should I say, can you get CC to work on a VCD or DVD?

let me revise... I have some old tv programs on tape that has close captioning and would like the CC to be on the VCD or DVD... can that be done?

[teegee420]

Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't you use the subtitles?

[Dimmer]

Closed Captioning is not captured during video capture. Normally, only professional DVD authoring software (Scenarist, DVDMaestro, DVDStudioPro) allows adding CC to a DVD. This site is a great source of information about capturing and processing of CC for DVD purposes. It also has a tool to mux CC into m2v stream, which you can then remux back into the DVD.

The only minor nuisance is that so far I wasn’t able to capture video and CC at the same time with my Radeon 7200 VIVO. It returns an error about the resource conflict, so I have to run the tape twice – once capturing video, another time CC.

Supposedly, you can add CC to a VCD as well, but apparently no one has ever done this.

Another alternative is to buy an external CC decoder (about $100 if you can find one) and capture the video through it. This will burn the CC permanently into the picture.

It’s a pity that many people don’t even know what CC is or confuse it with subtitles. PAL guys need not worry though – this is purely an NTSC thing.

[dreary79]

Are there any other softwares besides Scenarist, DVDMaestro, and DVDStudioPro. I don't have a mac, Scenarist requires some crazy HP computer and PCI decoder card, and I can't find DVDMaestro; do they still exists?

[guns1inger]

DVD Maestro isn't produced anymore, but can be picked up secondhand from eBay and the likes.

[dreary79]

Thx guns1inger, does DVD Maestro require any special decoder cards or cpu's?

[Cornucopia]

Dimmer is incorrect. DVD recorders and PVRs OFTEN capture CC along with the video. It is embedded as additional user-meta-data in the multiplexed mpeg, and/or retained as picture signal in the non-visible area of the screen (line 21). It can also be captured using a number of PC capture cards (ATI notably). DV converter boxes (like Canopus's) should do a similar function.

Using MacPoodle's CC tools, one can extract, import, generate, and convert to and from a number of formats, including going from CC to standard subtitles.

I know, I've successfully done this.

If all you want to do is capture/digitize your VHS tape to a digital file or disc that includes CC info (enough to be decoded), your best bet would be a DVD recorder.

Scott

[BJ_M]

i just did this this week in fact -- extracted the CC files off a tape (scc files) , converted them to srt files and hard burned them to a movie with v-dub and txtsub ...

SCC Tools is a wealth of info on the subject with great tools ..

http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/SCC_TOOLS/