Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Re: Re: [Avid-L2] Closed Captioning Track in QT .mov Extracting and Reinserting?

 

Dear colleague,

Thank you for your message. Kindly note that I am out of office from 12 July till 07 August 2015, both days inclusive. During my absence please coordinate with Mr. Karim Dhib KDhib@jcctv.net (Tel: 55169204 ) for the issues related to Post Production and Mr. Wessam Abdellatif WAbdellatif@jcctv.net (Tel: 66598775 ) for the issues related to Acquisitions.

I will not be able to check my e-mails regularly but please keep me CC in all correspondence.

Best regards,

On Jul 13, 2015, at 06:51, Jay Mahavier jay_mahavier@earthlink.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Without doing a Save As and re-render of the QT you run the issue of it not being a self-contained QT file.  It will be dependent on the file that has the CC track in it along with the QT.  If they want it to a full self-contained QT file you will need to select Save As and choose Self-Contained and let the file re-render.
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> On Jul 12, 2015, at 8:46 PM, John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> On a series I'm doing we are all file based delivery.  A facility uses MacCaption to insert a Closed Captioning track onto our file.  We give them a file from the captioning service and they use mac caption to mac it into what I see as a Closed Caption Track on the resulting file.  They do not re bake the file they just insert the closed caption track.  When they re bake the file there are issues at the network.
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> When we get QC notes back from the network usually there is no caption fixes.  I have successfully extracted the closed caption track and then inserted it into my new QC fixed file that is of identical length to the first file.  Once I've re inserted the caption track I can turn on show closed captioning under the view menu and voila I see the captions appearing properly with positioning and everything.  The facility charges half price to reinsert the closed captioning but I see no need to pay that given I can reuse the existing track.  Am I missing something here that would make my reinsertion of the closed caption track using QT Pro no acceptable?  If I see what looks correct in QT Pro 7 is that confirmation that the track is correct for the rest of the food chain?
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> John Moore
> Barking Trout Productions
> Studio City, CA
> bigfish@pacbell.net
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