This morning I've been working on a couple of things, but getting Closed Captions into a QuickTime movie is my biggest goal of the morning. I took a video from dm.com, a clip of Jeopardy, the game show, where "What is Depeche Mode?" was the correct response.

Through some trial and error, a couple of online tutorials, I figured it out and actually got the video to come out pretty well. If you're interested you can see it at: http://http://homepage.mac.com/rosso/JEOPARDY320-CC.MOV

I added that captioning by hand, with a lot of tweaking and messing around to get it just right. After I finished that I started looking for some tools to do it right and came across a few good pages:

Apple's Quicktime Text page

Other Tutorials at Apple

QTTT - QuickTime Text Tool written in Hypercard, no less. Not that great of an interface, but I did do a version of the video clip that had the captioning scolling across the video like those news tickers on the cable news channels.

I'm trying to see if I can get a closed captioned QuickTime burned as a Video CD. It's a small thing, but I'm trying.

I really see this as a area for self-education that I can play with now that I have QuickTime Pro and Toast, a whole bundle of new tech is open to me to learn about.

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