Month: March 2012

Almost there…

cc-captionSo close to being on the air.  The TV station we are trying to get on has accepted our video format and the content but we need to provide them with closed captions. 

We ended up hiring a company in Pennsylvania, ccmaker.com to do the work of transcribing and timing out all of the captions.  They send is back a computer file that has the captions on them and input them back in our video.  Here is where the problem comes in.  The complete file we are sending the tv station doesn’t seam to be in a format that they can read the captions with.  We are editing with Sony Vegas because it’s the only editing program that seams to be able to embedded captions back in the rendered file.  But it’s just not working quiet right yet.  I tried Final Cut, and Adobe Premiere Pro and they all say “embedding captions in the video is not possible at this time”

“Help me Vegas.. you’re my only hope”

I’ve got a discussion going on the Sony Forum about the issue and have gotten some good input so far…

There are also training videos saying it should work..

I just can’t get it work.  Today I purchased a support contract with Sony to try and enlist their help to solve this issue.  Once that’s done hopefully the can help me get the 2nd language running as well.

I’ve married the most amazing woman…

It’s been a hard month. Not going to lie. The past 22 days have been trying but rewarding. My days have been 8-5 at work the from my real job i’d head over to church and spend the rest of the evening there.. coming home usually around midnight.. get up, back to work and repeat the process. Weekends even worse.. usually get to church early and spend all weekend out there. I knew when we took on this HD project that it would be long hours the light at the end of the tunnel is finally starting to show it’s head. Through all of that i haven’t gotten to see Patti but only during the few waking hours between gettin in bed and and leaving for work. She’s also managed to put on a huge event for the foundation she works for that ended up being a huge success and undertaking. She has also been gathering for the huge church garage sale, getting Hannah ready for her state competition, dealing with megan being sick and even took in a stray along the way. I don’t know how she manages to do it all. I must have married wonder woman.