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From: L Snider
Date: May 7, 2015 1:32PM

Hi Sam,

Thanks so much, great information. I am now researching players and
captioning, interesting stuff there.

I also found out (for those that have to do this as well) that one can use
the original files and create captions in Adobe Encore and Premiere Pro.
This is useful for 'burning in' the captioning.

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Sam Cartsos < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Lisa,
> Assuming you're burning this CD as a data disk, you'll want to place your
> media and caption files in the same directory, and ensure that they have
> the same filename. You can include more than one caption file to
> accommodate different players - SRT and SMI files might be a good choice.
> When the user opens the media file in their default or preferred player,
> and assuming they've enabled caption/subtitle playback in their player, the
> captions will show.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>
> On 5/6/2015 11:35 AM, L Snider wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I am captioning a video for a webpage. No problem there, because the
>> player
>> uses WebVTT and it reads the captions from that file.
>>
>> However, I now have to put this video on a CD. I haven't worked with video
>> on CD before. I can't use my lovely player and WebVTT file...However, I
>> can
>> make the captioning file in another format (I have access to SRT,
>> SBV,DFXP,SMI, QT, RT, STL, SUB, SMPTE-TT and SCC). How is the best way to
>> do this without having to do things manually? Is there an automated way of
>> getting the captions into the video?
>>
>> I have access to Adobe software, and I think I can do this through Media
>> Encoder but am working on that now...
>>
>> If anyone has any suggestions/advice/etc, please let me know!
>>
>> Thanks so much.
>>
>> Lisa
>>
>>
>