Which DV devices support Closed Captioning?
Not all decks or DV-to-analog converter boxes handle CC properly (note: even decks and camcorders that don’t properly support CC data will properly transfer it over FireWire. “Proper support” in this context means encoding the analog CC into DV data and decoding it back to analog). Jeff Schriebman, who wrote CCaption and MacCaption, says: The SONY decks such as the DSR-11, 20, 25, 30, 40, etc. handle CC correctly. The high end Panasonic [DVCPRO] decks do, too. I haven’t checked the low end ones. All SONY Digital8 Camcorders that I have checked do CC properly. The SONY PD-150 does, the Canon XL1 doesn’t. The now defunct SONY DVMC-DA2 converter box handled CC correctly. None of any of the other FireWire to analog boxes that are currently on the market [as of October 2003] do CC correctly including the Promax. The AJA/Apple interface combination does not handle CC properly either. Jeff says that Digital8 camcorders from Sony process CC properly, and that’s what he recommends for folks loo
