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>> Hello, welcome back to our podcast captioning tutorial series.
This segment is called captioning for Apple devices using Compressor 3.
Apple has recently announced captioning support, specifically for QuickTime,
iTunes, all 3 iPods, and the iPhones.
Generally the process for captioning specifically for Apple devices is
to generate your source video, likely an MNOV file,
then generate your caption file, an SCC file, and then convert your source media
to the M4V format and imbed the caption data
at the same time using Compressor 3.
Compressor 3 is an Apple product that runs only on Macs
and is shipped with Final Cut Studio Pro.
Do not attempt to generate an alternate format such as a captioned MOV
from Compressor and then later convert it
to iPod format using either QuickTime or iTunes.
While Compressor 3 will correctly embed the caption data into your MOV file,
QuickTime or iTunes will lose this caption data
when they convert it to the M4V format.
To make this work, you need to generate the M4V format directly from Compressor.
Okay let's look at an example of using Compressor 3 to embed the caption data.
We'll start with the same MOV file that we've used in previous tutorials.
And we have an SCC file that we obtained
from the AST CaptionSync server previously.
Start by launching Compressor 3.
Earlier versions of Compressor will not work for this,
you need to have version 3 or later.
Next, bring your source media into the work space.
And we'll just drag it over here.
Okay, now select an encoding profile and drag it over to your workspace.
We'll use one of the preset settings to generate output for iPod devices,
and you can see that in the window just below.
Now select your movie in the workspace, go over to the inspector window,
select the additional information tab,
and you'll see there's the way you can put in a closed caption file.
Let's navigate to and select our closed caption SCC file.
There it is right there.
Now we've associated this SCC file with our movie.
Finally, just submit your job for encoding.
Compressor will take care of the format conversion and the embedding
of the caption data all at the same time.
When the task is complete you will have an M4V file that you can play
in QuickTime, iTunes, iPods, or the iPhone that is closed captioned.
Note that with closed captioning you need to turn on the caption display
to see it, it is not burned in the video as it is for open captioning.
Okay, when Compressor 3 has finished it's job, we can get rid of Compressor.
And we will find our output movie which we can now load
into iTunes to take a look.
>> Hello I'm going to show you how easy it is to.
>> And there's captions.
>> CaptionSync automated caption service to caption for webcast.
>> That's all there is to it, embedding the caption data
into an M4V file is really quite a simple task using Compressor.