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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: May 11, 2015 6:57AM

The question that I keep coming back to is "why can't you use your player on the CD?" There shouldn't be a technological reason why not – is there more to the story?
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From: L Snider [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 3:10 PM
To: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Cc: WebAIM Discussion List; <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Caption Question

Hi Andrew,
Thanks, that information was very useful. I hadn't explored the separate file versus embedding yet in Premiere. I also now need to play with Primetime as well, thanks.
So I guess the next question I would ask is what do the majority of people do in this case? Open Captions? Closed Captions? Would the FCC/CVAA rules be the ones to go with?
Cheers
Lisa

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:
To clarify on the point of what Adobe Premiere can do, you certainly could create "burned in" captions in Premiere just as you can with an video editor, but as Jon says there is a lost opportunity there for caption display modification/customization.

Premiere allows authors to import caption files, edit the caption data (which is shown on the video during editing at the editor's preference), and export the captions either as a separate file or (for quicktime) with the data embedded in the video asset. Another Adobe tool (Primetime) will allow you to embed caption data and stream the video files to a variety of devices and it embeds the data correctly for a variety of platform environments and allows the end user to modify the display appearance of the captions in the way that is required by the FCC/CVAA rules.

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/closed-captioning.html

AWK