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 MacCaption - 2.3closed caption prep & encoding |
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Feedback Summary:
| Version 2.3: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: |  (4.0) |
Support: | (3.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.0) |
Price: | (2.0) |
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Works Great and Worth the Price - Version: 3.11, 3/13/2007 07:06AM PST
brad.loflin
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- Works Great and Worth the Price
Has potential, but only moderate implementation ability - Version: 2.3, 5/7/2005 11:37AM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
Plumi
My company tried using this software to close-caption paid tv programming
and here's the word of advice: Download demo and test it. It may
or may not work in your setup. MacCaption is available as DV version or as NLE version (even pricier than DV). We have FCP HD working on a G5 with
Blackmagic's Decklink card hooked up, and this setup ONLY supports
the SDI DIGITAL OUT option of the Decklink card :-/ So no go for BetaSP owners. The other possibility (it's quite a workaround, trust me) is to downcalculate your video footage to DV, Firewire it to a tape deck that re-converts it into visual line 21-active CC representation - this DOES work. But by converting to DV, one loses a considerable amount of quality :-/ which may or may not be acceptable for you. The software implementation into a particular system is trial & error based, if it works, you do save $$$.
and here's the word of advice: Download demo and test it. It may
or may not work in your setup. MacCaption is available as DV version or as NLE version (even pricier than DV). We have FCP HD working on a G5 with
Blackmagic's Decklink card hooked up, and this setup ONLY supports
the SDI DIGITAL OUT option of the Decklink card :-/ So no go for BetaSP owners. The other possibility (it's quite a workaround, trust me) is to downcalculate your video footage to DV, Firewire it to a tape deck that re-converts it into visual line 21-active CC representation - this DOES work. But by converting to DV, one loses a considerable amount of quality :-/ which may or may not be acceptable for you. The software implementation into a particular system is trial & error based, if it works, you do save $$$.
The price is right... - Version: 2.1, 8/7/2004 11:06PM PST
(0 of 4 users found this comment useful)
ma0007
for those who is intersted. Because there aren't too much of interest from the general public anyway. Production companies - are not individuals, besides, the people who involved in approval of purchases are clercs who are spending not their own money. I the program good? Who c ares!. At this prise i won't even bother trying it anyway. This developers probably are doing fine job, let just not forget: a toilrt seat for Pentagon core between $150 - and $500, depend on whos a** is going to use it.
We have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in 5 years using CPC's products. We still use the Windows version for the transcriptionist (CPC-700NLE), export a ONL file and use that in the Edit suites (FCP) with MacCaption. We have a dongle, which roams from room to room so we don't have to buy multiple versions.
The whole process is a pain, but we are required by the FCC to do it and our audience appreciates it and lets us know when there is a problem. We use Line 21 mostly but as we are moving to Web and DVD based distribution, we are beginning to use the DV and MPEG capabilities.
Obviously this product is not for the independent producer creating a limited amount of projects, but for Broadcastors, TV stations and Post houses who are moving completely away from tape based editing (although CPC-700 with a hardware encoder can do tape based CC) MacCaption is a great product.
Brad Loflin
Senior Editor
JHM, Inc.