Caption DV Workflow

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Once you have prepared your captioning project inside MacCaption-DV or CaptionMaker-DV, you can encode captions to a DV video directly from your CPC software without the need of a third party hardware encoder.  Then you use a print to tape function to dump the video to a miniDV or DVCAM tape with captions via FireWire. The caption data inside the DV file is transferred to line 21 of NTSC video by most DV recorders or digital to analog converters like the Sony DVMC-DA2.  Below is the step by step workflow to captioning DV video.

If you do not own our software you may also download our Windows or Mac demo software and try our caption DV workflow yourself.

Please follow these simple steps to caption your DV video tape.

Step 1. Capture the DV video tape via firewire with our MacCaption-DV or CaptionMaker-DV software.

Our closed captioning software can interface with any firewire DV tape deck or firewire digital to analog converters like the Sony DVMC-DA2.

CaptionMaker-DV will create an AVI file with the DV codec on your windows PC hard drive while MacCaption-DV will create an MOV file with the DV codec for your Mac.

Step 2. Import the DV file you have just captured into our CPC software.

Step 3. Do your captioning preparation. (importing text, timing, and formatting)  If you have already done your caption preparation or are importing a previously formatted captioning project you can skip this step.

Step 4. Encode your captions directly to your DV file that you previously captured on your hard drive. This will create a new DV file with the captions encoded inside the digital VAUX data of your DV video clip.  When this step is finished, you will have two DV files on your hard drive.  The closed captioned encoded DV video that you exported from your CPC software and the original DV video clip that you captured from your firewire tape deck.

You can download two sampale 720x480 DV videos to test your DV firewire tape deck and see the captions on your TV screen. (make sure to turn on captions on your TV set with the CC1 settings)

It is important to know that your captions can only be seen by a TV set with a caption decoder.  Your captions will not appear when you playback your DV video inside of your computer with either Windows Media Player, Quicktime, or any other virtual media player.

Step 5. Print your caption encoded DV video file to a firewire tape deck.  Both MacCaption-DV and CaptionMaker-DV have print to tape functions that interface with any professional firewire tape deck.

For a list of compatible firewire tape decks that we have tested please go to our DV hardware list.