Closed Captioning and Subtitling Products - MacCaption and CaptionMaker Overview

Simplify video captioning & subtitling in any digital workflow

Captioning and Subtitling products MacCaption and CaptionMaker allow you to easily author, edit, encode and repurpose video captions and subtitles for television, web and mobile delivery. Utilizing exclusive e-Captioning™ technology, MacCaption (for Mac) and CaptionMaker (for Windows) simplify the process of complying with government regulatory compliance, enabling greater access to broadcast content for television, online and mobile viewers.

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"Now with either MacCaption or CaptionMaker, I'm able to work so much faster, and with such accuracy, that I'm able to accomplish so much more with the available budget and resources."

– Karen Franco, Professional Offline Captioner, Digital Media and Copyrights Specialist, in Pacifica, CA

"MacCaption is critical to our broadcast efforts and making a positive impression on TV viewers. Along with Switch, it gives us complete control over our closed captioning process so we can ensure quality results."

– Stephen Hoover, Director of Broadcast and Assistant Pastor at NewSpring Church

"You guys rock and we would recommend your software and services to anyone!"

– Jonathan Williams, XPmedia.com

"I want to thank you and your staff for the fantastic service… Honestly, I’m blown away by you guys."

– Trevor Tyre, The Media Concierge

"I really appreciate Telestream for their clear, concise, and direct technical support, as well as their responsiveness to customers’ needs. It does not go unnoticed."

– Irene Ekleberry, Wisconsin Public Television

"We have received excellent technical support. Telestream has always been there for us, with knowledgeable support staff, providing answers in language we can understand."

– Jeff Johnson, ADR International

"Thanks for a great product – it frequently blows our minds."

– Joel Martin, Point 360

"It’s as if the software were designed by a captioner, not a programmer. Caption features are presented in a very intuitive manner."

– Burwell Ware, Caption Perfect Inc.

"The software is very user friendly. We were captioning the day we received our system."

– Kevin Reeve, Utah State University

"Telestream is deservedly the industry go-to for professional captioning and subtitling solutions."

– Kelly Maxwell, Line 21 Media Services LTD.

"I have to say that in my 10+ years of working in broadcast software and hardware that Telestream has the best tech support I’ve ever seen."

– Chuck Thomas, themovieguy.com

"Now with either MacCaption or CaptionMaker, I'm able to work so much faster, and with such accuracy, that I'm able to accomplish so much more with the available budget and resources."

– Karen Franco, Professional Offline Captioner, Digital Media and Copyrights Specialist, in Pacifica, CA

"MacCaption is critical to our broadcast efforts and making a positive impression on TV viewers. Along with Switch, it gives us complete control over our closed captioning process so we can ensure quality results."

– Stephen Hoover, Director of Broadcast and Assistant Pastor at NewSpring Church

"You guys rock and we would recommend your software and services to anyone!"

– Jonathan Williams, XPmedia.com

"I want to thank you and your staff for the fantastic service… Honestly, I’m blown away by you guys."

– Trevor Tyre, The Media Concierge

"I really appreciate Telestream for their clear, concise, and direct technical support, as well as their responsiveness to customers’ needs. It does not go unnoticed."

– Irene Ekleberry, Wisconsin Public Television

"We have received excellent technical support. Telestream has always been there for us, with knowledgeable support staff, providing answers in language we can understand."

– Jeff Johnson, ADR International

"Thanks for a great product – it frequently blows our minds."

– Joel Martin, Point 360

"It’s as if the software were designed by a captioner, not a programmer. Caption features are presented in a very intuitive manner."

– Burwell Ware, Caption Perfect Inc.

"The software is very user friendly. We were captioning the day we received our system."

– Kevin Reeve, Utah State University

"Telestream is deservedly the industry go-to for professional captioning and subtitling solutions."

– Kelly Maxwell, Line 21 Media Services LTD.

"I have to say that in my 10+ years of working in broadcast software and hardware that Telestream has the best tech support I’ve ever seen."

– Chuck Thomas, themovieguy.com

Create and Edit

The fastest and simplest way to author and edit closed captions and subtitles for any type of video. Take advantage of the same powerful yet easy to use closed captioning software trusted by top industry professionals.
Now Available!: Speech-to-Text with Timed Text Speech.

Encode into Media

Export closed captions and subtitles directly into broadcast and web media files, as well as a broad range of caption and subtitle file formats, with industry-leading format creation and conversion support. Troubleshoot and QC your accessible video files.

Automate Processing

Automate high volume caption and subtitle processing tasks such as insertion and extraction, format conversion, timing and frame rate adjustment, sub-clipping and clip assembly. Combine with Vantage for powerful automated closed captioning workflows.

Closed Captioning and Subtitling Solutions

Broadcast and VOD

Meet all FCC regulations for both TV and internet closed captioning with the industry’s leading support for CEA-708 caption file formats, QC and troubleshooting of caption files, plus automated adjustments and conversions.

Content Producers

Solve the challenges of modern content production, editing, delivery, and archival while maintaining the highest quality closed captions and subtitles.

Corporate / Government

Accommodate your employees’ accessibility needs without compromising security or confidentiality, and ensure compliance with all legal requirements such as Section 508 and the ADA.

Education

Enhance the accessibility and value of your recorded lessons without breaking your budget. Provide learning opportunities for high demand job skills to your students interested in broadcast and media production.

MacCaption and CaptionMaker streamline the process

Auto-Transcribe media in over 100 languages using Telestream Cloud’s Timed Text Speech

Dramatically save time by automatically creating a text transcript of your video using speech-to-text technology. Auto-Transcribe your media in over 100 languages using Timed Text Speech. This cloud based service uses the power of AI to return texting and timing results to CaptionMaker and MacCaption.

Text and timing populates directly to your captioning project
Review text results as they are received along with your video
Quickly edit text results with new custom keystrokes
Automatically loop video while reviewing text results
Index your videos for key word searches

Fast, efficient processing

MacCaption and CaptionMaker provide an efficient way for you to comply with federal regulations while maintaining fast delivery of time-sensitive captioned video material.

Use existing video editing systems, capture cards and video servers
Begin preparing your captions while you are editing
Convert captions to subtitles and webcast formats
Convert the video frame rate and timing of captions or subtitles
Batch encode closed captions to various video deliverables
Output Caption and Subtitle files to Vantage for DVB Teletext, DVB Subtitles, and video transcoding with CEA-608 and 708 to various media formats.
Prepare captions and subtitles in various resolutions and frame rates including 4K, UHD, and 23.98 fps
Fix, troubleshoot, and legalize problematic caption file formats such as SCC.

e-Captioning™ engine

At the core of MacCaption and CaptionMaker is the e-Captioning™ engine. This revolutionary technology integrates with digital production systems to prepare and encode both standard and high definition video with caption and subtitle data.

Encode subtitles and captions to various file formats
Export subtitle and caption data to video editing systems
Embed captions and subtitles into OTT Web and mobile content
Extract caption and subtitle data from video files or live feeds
Email captions and subtitle files to your clients
Edit captions and subtitles in a non-linear interface with batch conversion and automated workflows
Enhance your closed captions and subtitles with true CEA-708 and OP-47/OP-42 Teletext features
Expand your potential viewing audience with captions and subtitles in an international market

Captioning and Subtitling for any Mac and Windows workflow

Captioning and subtitling for file based workflows, OTT web and mobile, NLEs, assembly and media management, live broadcast and webcast, DVD and Blu-Ray.

Automatic Time Stamping

Our Auto Time Stamp (ATS) feature dramatically reduces the time it takes to time stamp your closed captions.

Desktop Edition

Pro Edition

Enterprise Edition

Create closed captions from scratch.

You can author the captions by bringing in a video and a text file, and use Auto Time Stamp to automatically sync them up. You can import and export the captions to popular file formats like SCC (CEA-608), MCC (CEA-708), Timed Text, WebVTT, DVD closed captions, burn-in subtitles, and most standalone file formats for web and mobile device video closed captioning. Automatically transcribe and time stamp your videos in over 100 languages using Timed Text Speech, or author captions by bringing in a video and a text file, and use Auto Time Stamp to automatically sync them up. Learn more.