IMSC, SCC, SMPTE-TT, SRT, STL, TTML (sidecar) input captions
IMSC, SCC, SMPTE-TT, SRT, STL, and TTML are sidecar captions formats. With these formats, you provide input captions as a separate file. Depending on your output captions settings, AWS Elemental MediaConvert passes them through to the output in the same format or converts them into another sidecar format.
All sidecar captions
In all cases, create one captions selector for each input captions file.
In Source file, enter the URI to the captions input file that is stored in Amazon S3 or on an HTTP(S) server. For Amazon S3 inputs, you can specify the URI directly or choose Browse to select from your Amazon S3 buckets. For HTTP(S) inputs, provide the URL to your input video file. For more information, see HTTP input requirements.
IMSC captions
MediaConvert supports IMSC as an input captions format either as a sidecar file or as part of an IMF source. If your input IMSC captions are part of an IMF package, see IMSC input captions (as part of an IMF source). For restrictions on IMSC support, see IMSC captions support in AWS Elemental MediaConvert.
SMPTE-TT captions
You can use SMPTE-TT input captions that are text-only, that have captions images included
in the captions file with base64 encoding (smpte:image encoding="Base64"), and
that use external references to captions images (smpte:backgroundImage).
When your captions use external references to images, those images must be located in the
same Amazon S3 bucket and folder as your captions file. For example, say this is the Amazon S3 path to your
SMPTE_TT file:
AWSDOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/mediaconvert-input/captions/my-captions-spanish.ttml. Then
you must store the image files that the captions file references here:
s3://AWSDOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/mediaconvert-input/captions/.
SRT captions
MediaConvert supports SRT input captions with UTF-8 character encoding.
Synchronizing sidecar captions and video
To make sure that your captions are properly synchronized with your video, check that the value for Timecode source in the Video selector section matches the timecodes in your captions file. For example, if your video has embedded timecodes starting at 01:00:00:00, but the timecodes in your captions file start at zero, change the default value for the video selector Timecode source from Embedded to Start at 0. If other aspects of your job prevent that, use the Time delta setting to adjust your captions, as described in Use cases for time delta.
Note
MediaConvert handles the alignment of captions with video differently depending on whether the caption format is timecode-based or timestamp-based. For more information, see Input timecode source and captions alignment.
Enter a positive or negative number in Time delta to modify the time
values in the captions file. By default, time delta is measured in seconds. For example, enter
15 to add 15 seconds to all the time values in the captions file. Or,
enter -5 to subtract 5 seconds from the time values in the captions file.
To specify in milliseconds instead, set Time delta units to
Milliseconds.
If the value you enter for Time delta would result in captions before or after your video, those captions will not be present in your output.
Note
When converting from SCC to SRT, MediaConvert first rounds the value you set for Time delta to the nearest input frame. MediaConvert uses this rounded value when calculating output SRT timings.
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