Cost-Effective Captioning Workflows

Moderator: - James Klas, Director of Media Technology, State of Wisconsin - Educational Communications Board

Speakers:

- Chris Ostertag, Digital Engineer, KLRU-TV

- Bryan Fuqua, VicePresident of Technical Services, WTCI-TV

- Ralph Welch, Director of Engineering & Technology, WCTE-TV

What Motivated Us?

• Regulatory Pressure

• Classroom Needs

Regulatory Pressure

• Regulatory – web stuff has to be captioned if it airs on TV

• AND captioning must be accurate, synchronized, complete and appropriately placed on web and broadcast

Classroom Needs • These kids:

Classroom Needs • Become this guy with lousy captioning:

Let’s Get it Right!

• Q&A once we get through the presentations

• We will break at the advertised end time – but more Q&A is likely and we will stick around

• First up – Chris Ostertag from KLRU

Closed Captioning in NLE’s

Chris Ostertag

Captioning Support in NLE’s

• Adobe Premiere Pro CC – Robust Support • Avid Media Composer 7 – Limited Support • Final Cut Pro X – No Support*

Captioning in Premiere Pro CC

Captioning in Premiere Pro CC Capabilities • Import (Sidecar/Embedded) • Monitoring • Editing • Export (Sidecar/Embedded

Captioning in Premiere Pro CC Proper Setup

Captioning in Premiere Pro CC Import • MXF OP1a • Quicktime

• Native, not Omneon • Sidecar (.scc)

Captioning in Media Composer Capabilities • Import (AAF Only) • Monitoring (External Only) • Editing (Timing Only) • Export (Embedded Only)

Captioning in Media Composer Import an AAF • Acts as clip • External monitoring

only!

Captioning in Media Composer

Captioning in Media Composer

Captioning in Media Composer Try it out

http://cpcweb.com/hdtv/Avid_Sample.aaf.zip

Captioning in Final Cut Pro X

Nope! *

Let’s Make Closed Captioning Work (inexpensively)

Bryan Fuqua

Captioning on the Cheap (in a word – FREE)

• Captioning for pre-produced programming

• Re-purposing captioning files for web upload

RollUp NT (Freebie )

• www.autocaption.com • Free captioning software • Works with EEG, Evertz,

Link, & Norpak encoders

Preparing the files for Rollup NT

Using Rollup NT

DVD Decrypter (Freebie )

• http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/ • Free DVD Ripping software • No longer being developed • Final Version is 3.5.4.0

Using DVD Decrypter

Using DVD Decrypter

CCExtractor • http://ccextractor.sourceforge.net/ • Free closed caption extraction software • Save files as srt, raw, sami, dvdraw, bin, txt, ttxt

Using CCExtractor

Using CCExtractor

Using CCExtractor

Subtitle Edit

• www.nikse.dk • Adjust caption times to match mezzanine files

for up load to COVE / station website • Convert caption files to one of over 70 different

types

Using Subtitle Edit

Using Subtitle Edit

Using Subtitle Edit

Captioning with Harris Nexio

Ralph Welch WCTE

Captioning with Harris Retrieving the SCC File

• FTP into the server • Through the SCC Folder • Browse to show the clip

needed • Download the SCC File

Editing Captions Subtitle Edit

• Open both the SCC file & the show/clip in Subtitle Edit

• Check Captions against the audio

• Correct/Create/Spell Check Captions

Editing Captions Subtitle Edit

• Save the Caption File in whatever format you need

• Examples: For COVE or Play Out on a different server

Uploading Captions Uploading File to COVE

Injecting Captions Injecting with Rhozet

• Add the SCC file in Source Tab

• Imbeds the caption file as 608, 708 & SMPTE

Injecting Captions Injecting with Rhozet

Select the Caption File by clicking button at end of line that states ‘SCC File’

Injecting Captions Injecting with Rhozet

• The Target is a MXF, OP1A file

• Turn on the SMPTE data

James Klas, Director of Media Technology, State of Wisconsin - Educational Communications Board James.Klas@ecb.org

Chris Ostertag, Digital Engineer, KLRU-TV, Austin PBS costertag@klru.org

Bryan Fuqua, VicePresident of Technical Services, WTCI-TV, Tennessee Valley PBS bfuqua@wtcitv.org

Ralph Welch, Director of Engineering & Technology, WCTE-TV, Upper Cumberland PBS rwelch@wcte.org

Cost-Effective Captioning Workflows