Tech Tip - Selecting the Optimum Tool for Closed Captioning Insertion
Closed Caption Insertion Tools
PixelTools’ Closed Captioning technology provides accurate captioning in full compliance with broadcast technology standards. The technology is utilized in several different products. Each of the products is optimized for specific tasks.
Our most popular for tools for creating captioned video:
Expert-Caption
Stand alone application that rapidly and easily inserts captions into existing MPEG and AVC streams.
MPEGRepairHD
Stand alone application that can encode and caption content as well as insert captions in existing MPEG and AVC video. This tool included all of the capabilities of Expert-Caption for inserting captions into existing streams.
Expert-Workshop SDK
SDK that includes most of the capability of MPEGRepairHD and is accessed using C language calls.
C-Caption SDK
A comprehensive library of C language calls that translate CEA-608 captions into the equivalent CEA-708 captions and renders CEA-708 captions ontoa display context.
Following is a summary of PixelTools captioning capabilities:
| Expert-Caption | MPEGRepairHD | Expert Workshop SDK | C-Caption SDK | |
| Add 708,608,SCTE20, SCTE21,ATSC Captioning During Encoding |  |
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| Add 708,608,SCTE20, SCTE21,ATSC Captioning To Existing stream | |
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| Analyze Captioning | |
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| Extract Captioning stream to .SCC or .TXT | |
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| Print out contents of user_data | |
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| Transcode analog to digital captioning without re-encoding | |
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| Add analog captioning | |
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| Transcode between CC formats | |
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| Automate using Batch mode | |
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| Add Open Captioning during encoding | |
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| Convert Analog Captioning to Open Captioning | |
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| Insert live captions to IP streams | |
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| Extract live captions from IP streams | |
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| Translate 608 to 708 captions | |
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| Render 608 captions onto a display context | |
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| Render 708 captions onto a display context | |
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