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Closed Captions won't export embeded in the .mp4

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
February 27, 2017
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i currently have a project where i have to add Closed Captions to a customer short film. Theoratically a easy task. In fact it was until i had to export the project. I chose ''embed captions in file''. But in the exportet file are simply no captions embeded. I tried it with CEA-608&708, tested it with an other project, even reinstalled Premiere completely. When this didnt help i contacted the adobe support chat which couldnt find the problem either. Following the instructions i renamed the AppData/PremierePro/11.0 to 11.0_alt. Because this adobe support solution didn't solve the problem i am contacting you - the forum - my last hope.

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laurak46119729Author

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leew5477482 i'd love to try it with your preset.

Mo Alani

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check this out

Learn to work with captions in Premiere Pro

laurak46119729Author

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Well i did the captions following this manual

Jax24135

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I'll second @leew5477482 question: How are you trying to view the embedded captions?

If you're watching your video in VLC, the embedded captions won't show up because they're embedded into the video stream on Line 21.

Check your video using QuickTime, I think it has a Line 21 decoder to show captions.

leew5477482

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How are you determining if your output files do or don't have 608/708 embedded captions?

There is a really useful FREE utility called Media Info that I use on a regular basis to interrogate media files that I receive to check resolution, compression and captioning.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaInfo

Download, install and check your files. Use the HTML view and scroll down to the TEXT section. If closed captioning data is present, the FORMAT field will contain: EIA-608 or EIA-708 or both. If no captioning is present, the TEXT section will not be shown.

Lee

laurak46119729Author

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Hey Lee,

thank you for the handy tool. I simply checked the video by opening it in vlc player and tried to enable captions and there werent any. But with your tool i can now clearly say there are no captions. I dont have any idea how to work around it. I tried exporting the captions as a side car data and and embed them with a nice little tool called ''My Mp4Box Gui" which helped me but just accepts .srt captions.

But I have to have my captions at some points at the bottom and sometimes on the top of the screen which i belive isnt possible with .srt or the My Mp4Box Gui messes this up.

Thank you for your time and in advance for any further help

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