Making Closed Captions in DVDA

Opticus wrote on 10/28/2011, 2:59 PM

I have a program I edited in Vegas with closed captions. I want to end up with a DVD that has closed captions, so when the DVD is inserted and played in a standard DVD player, the user can turn on the closed captions in the usual way like any other DVD with closed captions.

Does DVDA do closed captions? It allows "subtitles." Can subtitles be done in a way that makes them operate identically to closed captions for the end user of the DVD?

When I render the program as an MPEG2 in Vegas using the render template for DVDA, Vegas also creates a caption file (.scc).

What are the steps in DVDA to include the closed captions in the DVD? Please, I need step-by-step directions.

Thanks to anyone who can help!

Cal

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/28/2011, 3:23 PM

DVD Architect can create closed captioning (If you mean optional subtitles).

DVD Architect Studio can not, FYI.

Opticus wrote on 10/28/2011, 3:27 PM

Thanks, I have DVD Architect Pro 5.2.

Opticus wrote on 10/28/2011, 3:30 PM

Thanks, I have DVD Archotect Pro 5.2. How do I do the closed captions? There are no directions in the help file that I can find.

Many thanks!
Cal

filmy wrote on 11/1/2011, 4:00 PM

DVDA has no abilty to create, or import, line 21 data. It will pass through is the data already exsits within the mpeg file *and* that file does not have to be recompressed.

Based on your question I need to make sure you are not talkiing about subtitles. Subtitles can be turned on or off at the DVD player level by most every DVD player.
However many DVD players do not have the abilty to turn off and on Closed Captions - that is the "job" of either an external decoder , a monitor with a built in ATSC tuner (in the US that is) or via a computer with software that will decode the data. (Techie Windows users can look at MSDN CC info for more details).

VVP still has a few quirks about rendering CC data but it will allow you to create the data and export if to an scc format. If you want to be sure of NTSC DVD compatablity I would suggest outputting a non-embedded version of your file, get another authoring program such as DVD Lab Pro and use that to author your DVD. In lieu of that there are some free tools that you can get, but they are DOS based and the one that will mux the scc file into your stream (CC_MUX) takes *forever* - but it does work. and it is free.