Closed Captions Projects

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Closed Captions Projects

This project type is intended for use when delivering offline Closed Captions for broadcast in North America. It complies fully with the CEA-608 and CEA-708 standards as well as follows accordingly the best practices approved by FCC.

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Project Type and Mode

Depending on the selected closed captions mode some functions of the program could be disabled:

CEA 708

CEA-708 compatible mode. All command and features are available including: colors, background colors, italics, underline and all closed captions specific presentation styles (Paint-On, Pop-On and Roll-up).

CEA 608

CEA-608 compatible mode. All command and features are available with one exception: background color could not be changed, per specifications, for CEA 608 captions.

TeleCap I

CEA-608 compatible mode that has additional limitations: color commands are disabled as well as Paint-on captions.

TeleCap II

CEA-608 compatible mode that has additional limitation: color commands are disabled and cannot be used.

SCC (DVD Closed Captions)

CEA-608 compatible mode intended for creating captions in the Scenarist Closed Caption format used by DVD authoring systems. Only Pop-on captions are supported.