How to make CLOSED CAPTIONS and export them CORRECTLY for television

[@DaveChapFilms]

Very informative. Why 8 channels of audio on export though?

[@skycron]

It's just the standard amount of channels television ingest servers look for. It covers the various channels of surround (if needed), a stereo mixdown track for normal devices (usually on tracks 7-8) and described video/alternate language track, etc. You don't have to necessarily use all the channels, but you have to set it up so the server sees there are 8 streams routed accordingly.

[@skycron]

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[@DaveChapFilms]

How do you go about sending both 608 and 708, or exporting captions to another editor that needs them separate from embedding? I'm finding that Premiere either on export or import, goofs up the 608 paragraph alignment, switching from left, center and right aligned randomly throughout.

[@skycron]

I’d stick to 708. It’s enough of a standard now you can probably safely drop 608. It generally ingests fine but you’re right, you do sometimes get bullshit alignment in different editors with Premiere’s encoding. Exporting captions is quite easy from Premiere, I should do a quick tutorial on it.

[@DaveChapFilms]

@@skycron Some stations still require us to deliver 608 and 708 though.

[@skycron]

It’ll ingest at the station level and display properly regardless. The weird annoying formatting will only happen on the NLEs but it won’t be public facing for broadcast.

[@kate_dpf]

When I bring my .mxf back into Premiere it looks like it has created the captions twice. Any ideas?

[@skycron]

It just reimported it, that’s all. It is probably showing your original subtitles in the project bin and showing the imported subtitles from your reimported MXF next to it. The UI/UX is a bit lousy in Premiere.

[@junaidalamvideoeditor]

I am not getting the 'Embed in Output File' Option after all the format settings. I am using Closed Captions on a caption track on the timeline. please help

[@skycron]

Hi there. To start with: 1) Double check to make sure your subtitles are CEA-608 or CEA-708 and that your track is showing as 'CC1'. If they aren't, the Embed in Output File option won't work. Also make sure they are enabled in the timeline so you can see the subtitles when you play the file so you know they're working. 2) Make sure you're exporting as an MXF - some file types, like QuickTime, don't work properly (or at all) in Premiere for embed.