CPC Computer Prompting and Captioning Co.

What's New

December 2-3, 2009 Booth 449
Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.

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Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
April 12-15, 2010 SL 5620

Software Updates

CaptionMaker Latest Version Information

MacCaption Latest Version Information

MacCaption + Matrox MXO2
Deliver HD Captions

MacCaption + MXO2 Workflow

MacCaption + Matrox MXO2 Deliver HD Captions
Rockville, MD, April 9, 2009: The wait for a HD-SDI closed captioning solution for non-linear editors and caption service companies is finally over. Matrox and CPC have co-developed an innovative solution that allows the MacCaption HD software to encode and decode HD captions to and from HD decks using the Matrox MXO2.

Improves Workflow and Lowers Captioning Cost
Matrox MXO2 and MacCaption users can now save both time and money by encoding HD captions directly on their video editing systems, without any additional hardware and with zero generation loss. It is no longer necessary to send HD master tapes to a separate deck-to-deck hardware caption encoding system. Existing closed captions are preserved during capture and print to tape operations, and the captions can be edited or re-purposed for multiple tape formats, optical disk delivery, and the web.

E-Captioning for Fast Delivery
Caption service companies will also greatly benefit from this new workflow. Similar to CPC’s patented “black movie” method for SD captions, MacCaption generates a Matrox 4VANC captions file that is small enough to send by e-mail. Editors can then, without any captioning software or additional hardware, easily add this file to their timeline. When the non-linear editing system prints to tape, the MXO2 patent-pending technology takes this encoded caption data and translates it to EIA-708 closed captions through its HD-SDI output.

File Size and Format No Longer an Issue
Until now, encoding HD captions via software required up to 3 times the disk space of the original file. However, the Matrox 4VANC file takes less than 5 Megabytes per hour. Whether editing in full uncompressed HD, HDV, or any other codec, this file that carries the encoded captions can easily be archived locally or transferred over the internet to any MXO2 user.

For more info on Matrox MXO2, please visit:

http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mxo2/
http://www.matrox.com/video/media/pdf/products/
mxo2/en_whats_new_MXO2_1_3_1.pdf

HD Closed Captioning Software for the Omneon
(with Assemble Edit Feature)

The wait for a tapeless captioning solution for HD is finally over. CPC, the leader in closed captioning, has created a solution that will allow the MacCaption HD software to export a caption encoded DVCPro HD file for playback to the Omneon Server.

Improves Work-flow and Decreases Captioning Cost
If you are currently using the Omneon Server or have clients that have an Omneon Server, you can now improve your workflow by not having to export to tape. This saves both time and money.

How it works
All Omneon Spectrum product lines ingest HD-SDI with closed captioning using the optional DVCPRO HD Media Port. These special DVCPRO HD Media Ports make a DVCPRO HD QuickTime file with closed captioning that can be edited with any non-linear editing system.

Unique Assemble Edit Feature
The MacCaption HD software in turn preserves the original captions and re-encodes the edited captions using our advanced assemble caption feature. Assemble Caption lets you edit pre-captioned video in Final Cut Pro and then export an XML that contains the “edit decision list”. This document is read by MacCaption-HD, which understands exactly how the captioned video was edited in order to produce a new caption file for the final video.

This is an excellent solution for clients editing in HD format because they don’t have to worry about Final Cut Pro deleting their captions when they edit their video. MacCaption-HD has the ability to retrieve the captions of the original captioned clip and store the data outside of Final Cut Pro until the editor is ready for it.

Once you have the final DVCPRO HD QuickTime with the new caption data, you simply play it back out of your Omneon DVCPRO HD media port via HD-SDI to your switcher for on-air broadcast. More...

Captioning HD Tapes

Panasonic DVCPRO HD
Captions can be added to DVCPROHD. You need to use FireWire to send the captioned video to a compatible VTR such as a Panasonic AJ-HD1400.

SONY XDCAM
Captions can be added to XDCAM.

Panasonic DVCPROHD and Sony XDCAM captioning is a new feature
and we are looking for end users to help us test this new capability.

For more details, click on www.cpcweb.com/hdtv