Anyone Adding Closed Captioning?

[slk001]

Does any add closed captioning data to your authored DVD's? If so, how are you doing this?

I have some laserdisk captures that I would like to add CC'ing to (and I have already transcribed two of them), but I haven't found an easy way to add them yet.

Also, notice that I am refering to CLOSED CAPTIONING, and NOT subtitling (which isn't a problem to add, and will be added also).

[McPoodle]

Closed captions appear to only be supported by the high-end DVD authoring systems. I know that Maestro and Scenarist support them, while ReelDVD, Impression, and Apple Studio Pro do not.

For Maestro and Scenarist, closed captions are added in an arcane format called Scenarist Closed Caption (with an .scc extension). A typical SCC file looks like this:

Scenarist_SCC V1.0

01:02:53:14 94ae 94ae 9420 9420 947a 947a 97a2 97a2 a820 68ef f26e 2068 ef6e 6be9 6e67 2029 942c 942c 942f 942f

01:02:55:14 942c 942c

01:03:27:29 94ae 94ae 9420 9420 94f2 94f2 c845 d92c 2054 c845 5245 ae80 942c 942c 8080 8080 942f 942f

Which will result in "( horn honking )" appearing at the bottom right of the screen at timecode 01:02:53:14, followed by a clear screen at 01:02:55:14, followed by "HEY, THERE." appearing at the bottom left of the screen at 01:03:27:29.

I've got this format documented at http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/DVDMaestro/scc_format.html (the second so far of my pages attempting to document Maestro top to bottom).

In addition, I've written a set of tools for closed captions, including one to translate SCC files to and from a more readable pseudo-code. Those tools can be found at http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/SCC_TOOLS/DOCS/SCC_TOOLS.HTML

Good luck!

--McPoodle (43 at yahoo.com)