Exporting Annotations to SCC File Format
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Exporting Annotations to SCC File Format
I'm trying to figure out how to make closed captions with my ELAN transcripts.
I've been able to export the tiers into QuickTime text files, import those with QuickTime Pro and add the annotations to a video file, but this results in an open captioning format that the user cannot switch off at will.
For more than a year now, QuickTime and iTunes have supported closed captions that are shown only when the user enables them, but they have to be provided in an SCC file format. Is there a way to convert any of the currently available ELAN export formats to the SCC format, or to add this functionality in the future?
Thanks,
Kyle Duarte
Re: Exporting Annotations to SCC File Format
At the moment the best approach is probably to look for a converter for e.g. SupRip files, something like SUBRIP2SCC or srt2scc.
I never tried such converter myself, actually I have no experience with scc at all. At first glance the format doesn't seem to be very straightforward. Time values in SMPTE format is not the problem, but the subtitles themselves have to be encoded in a particular kind hexidecimal values, embedded in special codes for positioning etc.
I can add export to .scc to the request list but it won't have high priority.
Maybe export to .srt format in combination with playback in the VLC media player is an alternative?
-Han
Re: Re: Exporting Annotations to SCC File Format
Yeah, thanks. I didn't think that the priority on that would be too high, unless tons of others randomly give this post a thumbs up. I'll check out those ideas based on currently-available formats.
Release of ELAN 4.3.0
