Closed Captions - Language Setting for 608/708 Streams?
I work at a local broadcast station and we are migrating over to Premiere to do our captioning...it's working great so far but I am wondering if there is a way to specify the default language for captions in Premiere? We are exporting as an .mxf and the metadata option is only to export as a sidecar file (which we are not doing), so it doesn't give us an option to change the metadata when 'none' is selected in the export option. Perhaps this is not an export issue with Premiere but with the original .scc and .mcc files we are using? (we use Rev for our captioning service). I looked at the metadata panel for each of those files and only found a blank entry (& no pull down menu) for country under the 'Photoshop' category (so not sure if that would be the correct metadata value to modify).
When we put the captioned file through Telestream, the language comes back as Afrikaans (South Africa) (af-ZA)...which appears to be the unset, default language.
In the analyzer, it also shows up as the same language (unset).
It's interesting to see that the SMPTE 436M captions show up in the Telestream as 708, and show up in the analyzer as 608 and 708. As we now know, they are neither, they are 436M. It lies. (Actually it just confuses people, as it did us for the longest time.)
We also ran the file through MediaInfo & FFProbe and including that info below for reference. MediaInfo returns a language for Text#2 which is the 708 stream, so wondering if this is an issue with the 608 stream?
MediaInfo
Complete name : C:\Users\mcrosi\Videos\CCTest.mxf
Format : MXF
Commercial name : XDCAM HD422
Format version : 1.2
Format profile : OP-1a
Format settings : Closed / Complete
File size : 4.07 GiB
Duration : 11mn 4s
Overall bit rate : 52.6 Mbps
Package name : Source Package
Encoded date : 2016-12-02 18:36:34.828
Writing application : Adobe Systems Incorporated Adobe Media Encoder 1.0.0.0.1
Writing library : win32 4.5.13.0.3
Video
ID : 512
Format : MPEG Video
Commercial name : XDCAM HD422
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : 4:2:2@High
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12
Format settings, wrapping mode : Frame
Codec ID : 0D01030102046001-0401020201040300
Duration : 11mn 4s
Bit rate : 50.0 Mbps
Width : 1280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 59.940 (60000/1001) fps
Standard : Component
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:2
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.905
Time code of first frame : 00:00:00;00
Time code source : Group of pictures header
GOP, Open/Closed : Open
GOP, Open/Closed of first frame : Closed
Stream size : 3.87 GiB (95%)
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Audio #1
ID : 768
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, wrapping mode : Frame (AES)
Codec ID : 0D01030102060300
Duration : 11mn 4s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Frame rate : 59.940 fps (800.8 spf)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 60.9 MiB (1%)
Audio #2
ID : 1024
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, wrapping mode : Frame (AES)
Codec ID : 0D01030102060300
Duration : 11mn 4s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Frame rate : 59.940 fps (800.8 spf)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 60.9 MiB (1%)
Text #1
ID : 1280-CC1
Format : EIA-608
Muxing mode : Ancillary data / CDP
Duration : 11mn 4s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)
Text #2
ID : 1280-1
Format : EIA-708
Muxing mode : Ancillary data / CDP
Duration : 11mn 4s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)
Language : English
Other #1
ID : 0-Material
Type : Time code
Format : MXF TC
Time code of first frame : 00:00:00;00
Time code settings : Material Package
Time code, striped : Yes
Other #2
ID : 0-Source
Type : Time code
Format : MXF TC
Time code of first frame : 00:00:00;00
Time code settings : Source Package
Time code, striped : Yes
Other #3
Type : Time code
Format : SMPTE TC
Muxing mode : SDTI
Time code of first frame : 00:00:00;00
and FFProbe returns the following:
CCTEST.mxf
Metadata:
uid : 409e44f1-b8be-11e6-a103-9457a5f1c98c
generation_uid : 409e44f2-b8be-11e6-8fd5-9457a5f1c98c
company_name : Adobe Systems Incorporated
product_name : Adobe Media Encoder
product_version : 11.0.0
application_platform: win32
product_uid : 0c3919fe-46e8-11e5-a151-feff819cdc9f
modification_date: 2016-12-02T18:36:34.000000Z
material_package_umid: 0x060A2B340101010501010D11130000001B46FE032477058869279457A5F1C98C
timecode : 00:00:00;00
Duration: 00:11:04.96, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 52597 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg2video (4:2:2), yuv422p(tv, unknown/bt709/bt709, progressive), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 50000 kb/s, 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 59.94 tbn, 119.8
tbc
Metadata:
file_package_umid: 0x060A2B340101010501010D121327D0D11346FE03247705889CCB9457A5F1C98C
file_package_name: Source Package
track_name : Track 1
Stream #0:1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 768 kb/s
Metadata:
file_package_umid: 0x060A2B340101010501010D121327D0D11346FE03247705889CCB9457A5F1C98C
file_package_name: Source Package
track_name : Track 2
Stream #0:2: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 768 kb/s
Metadata:
file_package_umid: 0x060A2B340101010501010D121327D0D11346FE03247705889CCB9457A5F1C98C
file_package_name: Source Package
track_name : Track 3
Stream #0:3: Data: none
Metadata:
file_package_umid: 0x060A2B340101010501010D121327D0D11346FE03247705889CCB9457A5F1C98C
file_package_name: Source Package
track_name : Track 4
data_type : vbi_vanc_smpte_436M
Also, there's a Reddid thread with some good info that we found helpful for CC in Premiere FYI
https://www.reddit.com/r/premiere/comments/4iwjlf/embedding_captioning_question/
https://www.reddit.com/r/premiere/comments/4iwjlf/embedding_captioning_question/
For Premiere, we are using 2017.0.1
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