Quick, easy closed captioning and subtitling for DV

What We Mean by DV
When we say DV we mean the specification for NTSC DV video at 720x480. This could be video recorded on a DV tape, or a movie file using the DV codec. Being a standard definition codec, DV supports 608 closed captions on Line 21 which are decoded by your television.

What You Will Need
The first thing you need in order to get something closed captioned is a transcript. There are several ways to create one, and CPC also offers a transcription service.

We will send you a small program called CapEncode to create a proxy movie and a "Signature File" for your video. The proxy movie will act as a reference while we are formatting and timing your captions, and the Signature File is used as an ID for your video.

Once we are sent these files, we can start the closed captioning process.

What You Get From us
After the captioning process is complete, we will email you a caption file, and a new Signature File. CapEncode will encode captions to your original DV video using these files. Once it is encoded, you can lay off your closed captioned video file to tape.

Other Options
Repurposing Captions: It is also possible for CPC to extract closed captions from video and repurpose them by encoding to another format.

Physical Media: While eCaptioning allows you to keep quality control in-house and makes it unnecessary to mail tapes, we understand this may not work for everyone. If it suits your workflow we can also work with a tapes you send us and then mail you back a new tape with closed captions. We can do this with every format from DVD to BetaSP.