User`s guide

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DV Compatibility Check 1
There are many other DV hardware devices which work with CPC CaptionMaker and
MacCaption/CCaption. To check whether your specific hardware is caption compatible or not,
you can do the following test.
Take a commercial video with closed captions and save it via FireWire on your hard drive. Now
print the video out of your computer via FireWire to your DV hardware and then finally to a TV
with its closed caption decoder turned on. If you see captions, your hardware is caption
compatible.
DV Compatibility Check 2
Download one of the following videos (295 MB) which are already captioned using CPC
software
Demo_DV_720x480_CC.mov (QT mov)
CPCDemo_DV_720x480_CC.avi (avi)
and open the video in your NLE system or any software which allows you to dump the video via
FireWire to your deck. Now connect the deck to a TV with its closed caption decoder turned on
and output the video. If you see captions, your hardware is caption compatible.
MacCaption-NLE
MacCaption can add captions directly to video using NLE systems. After adding captions to a
720x486 video with an NLE system you typically write the final video to video tape. You output
the 720x486 video from your NLE system to NTSC videotape using the hardware associated
with your NLE system.
Up-to-date List: For most recent list of caption compatible NLE Systems, please check
www.cpcweb.com/nle/nle-hardware.htm.
NLE Hardware
Caption data sits in 720x486 video in Row 0 or Row 1 depending on the NLE system. In NTSC
(525 line) video caption data sits in Line 21. When you transfer the video to NTSC, you must
use an NLE system that can transfer the caption data from Row 0 or Row 1 of 720x486 video to
NTSC video Line 21. The following NLE systems can do this, which makes them caption
compatible. Caption data for use with NLE systems is stored in the following locations: