Why don’t burned-in closed captions work when exporting from Final Cut Pro via Compressor? When I play the exported media from the media stick, I used, no closed capturing is displayed?
Please show us exactly how you are exporting.
Are using "Send to Compressor"?
In my experience, it is usually better to export "with Compressor settings" right from FCP, instead of using "Send to Compressor".
I’m not sure I fully understand your advice. When I send the project to Compressor, I notice a “Burn-in Closed Captions” option, but it is grayed out. I assumed that was the setting needed to burn in captions, so I’m wondering why that option is disabled.
Greg Vrchoticky wrote:
I’m not sure I fully understand your advice. When I send the project to Compressor, I notice a “Burn-in Closed Captions” option, but it is grayed out. I assumed that was the setting needed to burn in captions, so I’m wondering why that option is disabled.
Where do you see that? Not in FCP, I suppose. Send to Compressor, at least for me, does not offer any options, it goes directly to Compressor.
As I wrote before, some screenshots may help to clarify.
So you know Closed Captioning is not "burned in" but "coded" and can be turned on and off by the person viewing it. So when you playback the video, what are you viewing it on/with? Are you enabling the CC to show?
Do you actually need to use Compressor at all?
If you can export directly from Final Cut Pro, it would be less steps, not more.
The answer to the above depends on what output format you need, but I'm guessing that you just need an mp4 file in H264, with the captions burnt in. FCP can do that on its own. Only if you need to tweak data rate would you go through Compressor, and even then you could just create your custom preset in Compressor, add that as a Destination in FCP and export.
"Send to Compressor" seems to me to be the extra step... just sayin'.
Here is how you could export an mp4, with burnt in captions, right from inside FCP.
In Settings, choose "Computer":
And in Roles, select to burn in the captions you want:
Okay, try exporting with Command + E, then open the newly exported video with Compressor.
Smiliñ 😎 Brian
I need it burned into the video, as it will be playing from an SD card on a monitor in the lobby at my workplace.
I’ll give that a try—it does seem like an extra step (if it works) that Apple should address. Thanks, Brian.
Please let me know if my idea works.
I have seen burned-in captions on YouTube, so it is possible.
Smiliñ 😎 Brian
Burned-in closed captions are not being displayed.
