Caption everything.

e-Captioning - What does it mean for you?

• encode your Captions to DV25 & DV50, DV100, MPEG2, MOV, AVI etc.

• export your Captions to your NLE system, DVD/Blu-ray Authoring system, etc.

• embed your Captions into your Web content, Podcasts, Google, Flash, WMV, QuickTime etc.

• extract your Captions from existing VHS, DVD, DV25, DV50, MPEG etc.

• email your Captions to your clients as Blackmovie, SCC, STL, DV-droplet.

• edit your Captions

• effortless Captions

e-Captioning - Further Defined 

This revolutionary technology refers to the preparing and encoding of federally required television and webcast video captioning and subtitle signals over electronic systems such as the Internet and non-linear video editing computer systems.

The amount of video editing, finishing, and distribution conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily because of the increased availability of fast broadband Internet speeds and inexpensive large storage mediums to video production companies. In addition, a wide variety of processes have been adopted into the video production workflow to accomplish fast delivery of time sensitive video material. 

Because it is now federally required to closed caption video for television broadcast and webcast, a new more efficient way to comply with federal regulations called "e-Captioning" has been designed to allow video production companies to maintain their fast digital delivery of video material. 

The developers of CPC MacCaption and CaptionMaker have introduced innovations to encode both standard definition and high definition video with the FCC compliant standards. These innovations make e-Captioning possible in the following ways:

• Support for unicode characters in 708
• Adding captions into the VAUX data of a DV stream (DV25 and DV50)
• Generating a 608 compliant VBI graphic (blackmovie) for a non-linear workstation
• Adding 608 and 708 captions into an existing MPEG-2 stream for SD and HD
• Adding 708 captions to a 10 Bit HD video (VANC access)
• No hardware encoder necessary
• Begin preparing your captions before you finish your edit
• Non-linear caption and subtitle editing
• Decoding of closed captions on your desktop 608 and 708
• Standards conversion of captions (NTSC to PAL to HD 23.976 to 59.94)
• Conversion of captions to subtitles and webcast formats
• Caption Preparation for any resolution with a plain text file and low resolution Quicktime, flv, or wmv
• Batch encoding of captions for any standard through GUI or Command-line interface.