SoftMary

Product Overview:

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Complete captioning and subtitling solution on a CD. No additional hardware required. No generation loss!!! With CaptionMaker-NLE (Windows) and MacCaption-NLE (Mac), you can caption any 720x486 uncompressed video sitting in your NLE system like FinalCut Pro, Avid, Media 100, Adobe Premier 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 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 effect or a 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 dont 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. Closed caption data sits in Line 21 of NTSC (525 lines).