Plus – A detailed guide on subtitle formats and standards
This past Friday, I wrapped up delivering 10 episodes of a travel show for American Public Television (APT), so I wanted to share my delivery workflow for captioning a broadcast show. This topic is a little tricky since my favorite finishing tool, DaVinci Resolve, doesn’t support delivering both 608 & 708 broadcast captioning/subtitling standards.
While Resolve supports CEA-608 captions in .mov and .mxf containers, that standard is for legacy analog transmission. A newer CEA-708 standard was created for digital broadcast. An undocumented feature in Resolve is that MXF containers (only) can be embedded with either 608 or 708 captions—but not both!
Broadcasters asking for -608 captions will likely ask for -708 deliverables, as APT asked us to do. Plus, APT wanted .scc format files for the deliverables, which Resolve doesn’t support either importing or exporting. Therefore, DaVinci Resolve was incapable of delivering my final air master.
How did I handle these deliverables without (sadly) using DaVinci Resolve?
That’s what this Insight is about.
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