Post-Production Captioning

Live Captioning

Subtitling

Standard Definition (SD) Closed Captioning

NLEdirect for SD

The NLE (tapeless) captioning process begins by posting a compressed video of your project to Aberdeen’s FTP site.  After we complete the captioning process (transcription, placement and timing of text, quality check, and export), we will e-mail you a caption file, which you lay on another video track in your project.  From here, you output your entire project—with captions included—to tape!  There you have it—no shipping tapes, fast turnaround time, and a first generation quality closed captioned master!

SD Tape (Digital)

The pieces of equipment needed to caption to digital standard def tape are the following: and SD digital tape master, an SD encoder, SD digital tape decks, and SD digital tape stock to create the closed-captioned master tape. When closed captioning to digital standard definition tape, the process is simple.  You mail Aberdeen the master of your program on the tape format of your choice—DIGITAL BETACAM, DVCAM, DVCPRO, MiniDV, et cetera. Aberdeen completes the captioning process, which includes: transcribing the spoken word, syncing and placing the text, and performing a quality check.  Using your master tape as the source, we take the caption file created and encode it to the digital tape format(s) required creating the closed-captioned master tape.  The captioning company ships your closed-captioned tape(s) out to the desired location(s) and e-mails you a shipment and delivery notification.

SD Tape (Analog)

Aberdeen does accept analog BetaSP masters and we can either encode the captions to a closed-captioned BetaSP master tape (if your station accepts this format) or to a digital tape format of your preference.  The process is almost identical to the SD digital tape process except for the use of analog tape decks.

DVD

You have a DVD that you are authoring for distribution and you would like to author in closed captions and/or subtitles.  For you, the process is made simple.  Post a video file of your project to your closed captioning company’s FTP site.  Let them work away on creating the needed files, which may include: transcribing the spoken word, syncing and placing the text, translating the source language into the languages needed, et cetera.  Then they will send you the appropriate files for your specific DVD authoring system.  From here, you ingest the files into your system and author them into your DVD menu.  There you have it—a DVD with a menu full of options for your target audiences.

SD File Inserts (Tapeless)

There is yet another simple way to caption your SD programming that is tapeless–CC file inserts directly into your video.  This option allows closed captioned video to be digitally sent to a station’s play-server.

File-insert captioning works with the following formats: DV, .mov, MPEG-2, and DVCPro.  The process involves the client sending a full-res file & proxy file via FTP, thumb drive, hard drive, et cetera.  Then from here Aberdeen does the captioning and inserts captions into video file and returns the captioned video via FTP, thumb drive, hard drive, etc.  This process is typically used for captioning being played out through a SkyMicro card to a tape or with when captioned video gets delivered directly to a station for their play-server.

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