Reels + Captions

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Jefe533
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Reels + Captions

Post by Jefe533 »

What's best practice for creating a DCP when you have a few ProRes or J2K reels and a corresponding number of CCAP XML files?

Is it OK for the reels to have their start TCs from editorial (01:00:00:00, 02:00:00:00, etc.) or do their start TCs need to be written as 00:00:00:00, 00:00:00:00 etc) by Resolve?

And for the CCAP XML files, can my vendor leave their editorial start TCs for the caption timestamps and the overall XML metadata (02:00:00:00, etc.) or must those be "zeroed out" in both the actual caption time stamps and the reel metadata in the XML?

I didn't totally see where in DCP-o-Matic you can assign a given XML caption asset to a particular reel, nor how that might work when making a VF.
Carsten
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Re: Reels + Captions

Post by Carsten »

Why use reels for your master anyway?