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Captioning
& Subtitling Videotapes
CaptionMaker
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| CPC-600 |
On-the-fly post production captioning and subtitling without
using timecode, plus live captioning using a closed caption
encoder hardware. |
| CPC-700 |
Same
as CPC-600 plus
timecode based post production captioning and subtitling. |
| CPC-710 |
Encoding
software only for videotapes - timecode based post production captioning and subtitling. |
- Traditional Post-Production
(Off-line) Captioning
- DVD Post-Production (Off-line)
Captioning & Subtitling
- Live Realtime (On-line)
Captioning
- Webcast (Off-line) Captioning
- Traditional Post-Production
(Off-line) Subtitling
With
the CPC-600, CPC-700 CaptionMaker (Windows), you can caption any
videotape using a closed caption encoder hardware. You can also do
live captioning since this software has all the features of the CPC-500.
To
caption a video, you need the transcript of the video. There are
many ways to transcribe
a video. After obtaining the transcript, import the
script to the CPC software and format the script. Finally, listen to the video and synchronize the captions to the video by
associating timecodes to each caption manually. For details, click here.
Once
you have a time stamped text file, you can add captions to a video.
Send the captions from the computer to the closed caption
encoder while the video is sent to the encoder from the video source.
The captioned video will be recorded on a videotape.
Post Production
System Diagram
CPC-600
users are ready to caption
Start the playback and record VCRs. When you hear the first word of each
caption spoken, press the (+) key. Pressing the (+) key outputs the caption
the cursor is on to both the record tape and the CaptionMaker screen.
The captions are recorded onto the video in real time.
CPC-700
users link time codes to captions
Start the playback VCR. When you hear the first word of each caption spoken, press the (+) key. Pressing the (+) key reads the time code via the time code reader, and also outputs the caption the cursor is on to the encoder. The time code is automatically captured and displayed on the far left side of the CaptionMaker screen. After assigning time codes to each caption, you are ready to
AutoSync.
CPC-700
users are ready to AutoSync
When all the captions have time codes, rewind the tape to the beginning.
Start the playback and record machines and click on the icon for
AutoSync.
As each time code is read, the caption associated with it will be output
automatically at precisely the correct time. The
result is perfect synchronization between dialogue and captions. The video
with the captions is sent to the record machine. The CaptionMaker minimizes
the use of expensive VCRs by allowing you to perform every-thing but the
final AutoSync process off-line on inexpensive VCRs (e.g. a VHS deck with
two linear audio channels). You only need the higher-level VCRs (e.g.
Betacam SP, Digital decks) for the final AutoSync process.
CPC-710
Users to AutoSync
The vast majority of CPC-700 users do not need the CPC-710
because the CPC-700 has all the AutoSync encoding capabilities of the
CPC-710. The CPC-710 only lets you do AutoSync and make minor changes
in the file; it cannot be used to prepare captions. The CPC-710 is ideal
for those who need to do encoding of captions only. For example, suppose
the video to be captioned is on professional BetaSP tape. However, the
caption script preparation, formatting, and time coding are done at a
facility that does not have professional BetaSP tape decks. The formatted
text with time-code could then be e-mailed to a facility that does have
BetaSP decks, and using the CPC-710 that facility can easily and quickly
encode the captions onto a BetaSP tape.
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