That IS impressive! I wish converting DVDs were that quick! I don’t watch much TV shows but if I did this would definitely come in handy. DVR on my Dish box satisfies me for now.

Speaking of The Deaf Family, I hope HOVRS step up in their release time for showing the rest of the movie, at the rate they are going now it’s going to take 3 years for us to watch all 105 minutes of it.

Lance

Sounds good, does it work with FCP Studio 2 or Compressor that came with FCP studio 2??

I wonder if this work flow will work? Capture Raw Format .DV from Mini-DV tapes to iMovie or FCS, then will I have to first export with a different format .MOV before use this Elgato to compress it and store in on DVD for media catalog?

Thanks Chad and keep us posted!

Interesting concept. But you’d think that there’d be options to utilize the GPU to do the MPEG encoding?? I cant imagine a hardware USB stick being that much faster than a modern high-end GPU if properly utilized…

I have one of these Turbo sticks and haven’t really used it much yet. Your numbers are VERY impressive though. I’m going to have to check out RoadMovie though. Getting good captions/subtitles into my ripped video is a real pain!

Would I be as picky about getting downloaded SUB files to align right if I couldn’t hear a little bit?

Right now I am trying to rip with MTR and then see if the Turbo can compress that and keep the closed captions….

An update:

For a DVD that has closed captions using MTR and then dragging the VIDEO_TS into the Turbo.264 application kept the closed captions in tact in the new QuickTime file. The subtitles were lost though.

A disadvantage is that making the VIDEO_TS etc folders from the DVD will take 7+ gigs of hard drive space. You can delete it after it’s compressed of course.

Turbo.264 speed on my computer got up to 50 fps for that type of file. I think this is because it wasn’t already in a compressed format.

So the real advantage of this method then is that you don’t have to mess with adding the captions from an outside file…. otherwise, handbrake to avi/m4v and then submerge or roadmovie to add the subtitles and then compress (with turbo).

Neat about Turbo.264

Nice about YouTube now support CC and subtitles.

Is there any Mac software that allow me to create subtitle file (i.e. .srt), i.e. SubRip clone?

Looks like I have to go into Windows in order to use SubRip to easily create subtitle/CC file.

Since I am all new to the video and CC/subtitle thing so I am learning.

What I understand is that programs like Roadmovie/Submerge do the embedding of CC/subtitle into video stream so it is like making it “open captioning” as the viewer will have no way of turning the CC/subtitle off. Am I right?

Since YouTube now support CC/subtitle (in various languages), all we need to do is upload the .SRT file for a given video upload so that the viewer can have option of turning the CC/subtitle on or off and in what language. So I would not need programs like Roadmovie/Submerge (but can use them for changing the formats/compressing).

So instead of manually editing the .SRT file using text editor which is awkward and time consuming, is there an application that shows video in real time and same time I can stop the video and then this application automatically enter the timecode and I just type in the CC/subtitle text and then go on to next part of video. I did check Sears, yes it reads in .SRT file and allow to shift the timecode forward or back (so it sync better with video) but it seems that Sears does not have option to add/remove the timecode/caption, can it?

Sears use VLC video player as default so I downloaded VLC. But I have problem is when Sears run VLC as external program (which I believe Sears is able to “control” the playback of VLC via Sears program), but when Sears tries to run VLC, VLC kept crashing (different version?). So Sears is like useless for me at this point.

Is there any program, what about iMovie? that would allow me to control the video playback and have program automatically insert the time code so all I do is enter caption, then go back and play back with caption on and click some button to signal the end of caption display when I think it is long enough to read that caption and go on with next caption.

If there is no application for Mac like this, then I guess I have to use Windows version, but I really don’t want to use Windows at all. (yeah I have Parallel 3.0 but it is like a kludge to me :)

It is really wonderful that YouTube supports CC and subtitles so we need to encourage more people to use this feature to benefit all of us, including hearing people (when people sign in ASL, we can add caption for sake of hearing viewers :)

So we need very good simple CC/subtitle editing application to encourage more videos with CC/subtitle. Editing CC/subtitle in text editor is simply way too much for most people.

I just checked iMovie and yeah it does not have subtitle/CC “real time editor”.

Can iMovie use Turbo.264 when present? (I hope so!)

iMovie is nice for quickie video with simple titles which I can upload to YouTube.

There is MacCaption 3.2 but that thing cost $4 grand, ouch :)

There is Final Cut Pro which seems to have subtitle editor but that thing cost $1,200 or so.

Any suggestion on real time subtitle/CC editor? Thanks so much!

I just found Sublime, it cost $295. It seems to do what I want it to do (I have not figured out the interface yet, need to read the manual :)

Anything else besides Sublime (and manually editing .SRT file in text editor)?

Thanks so much!

Subtitle Editor… Jubler (free and open source).
Here are lists of other softwares…
CapScribe
MAGpie
Miyu
MovCaptioner

Best Subtitle/CC (yes, CC too!) to date is Annotation Edit which is US$245.

For those who uses MTR… give RipIt a try.