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Captioning NLE Video

Complete captioning and subtitling solution on a CD. 

No additional hardware required. No generation loss!!!

With CaptionMaker-NLE (Windows) and MacCaption-NLE or DTV (Mac), you can caption any 720x486 uncompressed video sitting in your NLE system like Final Cut Pro, Avid, Media 100, Adobe Premiere, etc. without using any external closed caption encoder. Then you can dump the video to a tape format (BetaSP, DigiBeta etc.) via the NLE hardware (like Avid, AJA, Blackmagic DeckLink, Matrox, etc.).

To caption a video, you need the transcript of the video. There are many ways to transcribe a video. After obtaining the transcript, You will then import the script to the CPC software and format the script. Finally, you will listen to the video and synchronize the captions to the video by associating timecodes to each caption manually. For details, click here.

CPC software then exports a 720x486 black video with closed caption data on row 0 or 1. Avid systems, for example, the caption data sits on Row 1 and column 26. The 720x486 video file is then imported into the NLE system and put on the time line along with the original video. A picture-in-picture or crop effect is then applied to the imported video to mask off all but the closed caption image line to merge the imported video with your original video.

In case you are not adding the captions to the video yourself, you can send this black video to the video editor at a different location to superimpose captions to the original video. Because these files are 99% black, they can be zipped to about 0.15%. The .zip file can then be emailed or ftp’d to the video editor. You don't have to worry about big file sizes.   

When you transfer the 720x486 video to NTSC via the NLE hardware (not Firewire) the caption data from Row 0 or Row 1 of 720x486 video is transferred to Line 21 of NTSC video.

You can check out a samples of our 720x486 NLE video by clicking here for your NLE system and see the captions being output to your TV.

Demo Software
You may also download our Windows or Mac demo software and try it out yourself. The demo software has all the features of the licensed version with some limitations. To protect the software, we replace a few characters in each captions with "?" marks and limit the total number of captions to around 25.

NLE Encoder version - Encoding only
The Encoder version is for encoding captions only. It does not have the capability to prepare time stamped caption file from raw script. It has the same look and feel as the NLE version. See Feature Comparisons on the right hand side bar for details.

You can not prepare a time stamped caption files using the Encoder versions. You have to get a prepared time stamped caption file from a different source (e.g., CPC *.cap, DVD *.scc, Cheetah *.cap or *.asc etc.) and then use the Encoder versions to encode the captions on the video.

What else does the NLE version do?
Beside captioning DV videos, you can also export files to caption

• DV-25 and DV-50 Videos

• DVD captioning and subtitling

• Webcast (post production)

• Live Captioning

For details, click on the item on the sidebar on the right.

Other Options
If you want to caption your HD videos, then you should get the DTV or HD versions. They have all the features of NLE versions.

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