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What's
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Coming
Events (Conventions)
Software
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EIA 708 Caption
for HD Videos via Matrox MXO2
Press
Releases
Published Articles
Coming
Events

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
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Software
Updates
CaptionMaker
Latest Version Information
MacCaption
Latest Version Information
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MacCaption + Matrox MXO2
Deliver HD Captions |
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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
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