SCTE San Diego Chapter -Closed Captioning Rules, Regulations and Implementations Overview

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2 Caveat The following charts contain an interpretation of current pertinent regulations that are subject to change and should not be considered as legal advice in any manner. Page 2

3 Agenda Summary Report & Order Best Practices CC support on the MT-50 CC implementation on the RM-40 Page 3

4 Summary Closed Captioning Quality Order Issue February 2014 Report & Order for February 2015 rules Future areas (FNPRM) Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Closed Captioning compliance became law in March 2015 Declaratory Ruling Clarification of current captioning rules R&O future Feb 2015 rules FNPRM potential future requirements Final rules in Appendix B Very similar to loudness / CALM act Consumer driven rather than audit driven CC ruling covers Spanish and English programs LPTV Stations are NOT exempt Page 4

5 Report & Order (March 2015 Rules) Accuracy Captioning should match dialog, sound, music and speakers Synchronicity Time and speed of captioning should synchronize with audio Completeness Captioning should be present for the full duration of each program Placement CC can not be over faces, key graphics or onscreen text Page 5

6 Report & Order Possible fines Flagrant Violations = $8,000 per hour Flagrant is, of course, highly subjective and hard to define. Consumer complaints will likely be the driving metric. Best Bet: Follow Best Practices to avoid fines FCC R&O: Section IV A 5.a & 5.b, paragraphs 51-65, pp Page 6

7 Report & Order Possible fines Page 7

8 Closed Captioning - Best Practices

9 CC Best Practices Overview Video Programmer Best Practice Agreements with captioning service providers Operational best practices Monitoring and remedial Certification procedures Monitor streams at origination (e.g. master control) to determine Presence Recording of captioning issues Beginning 1 year after effective date - log for up to 12 months Spot check might be required 30 days after complaint Captioning Vendor Best Practices Real-time (Live) Captioning Vendors Real-time (Live) Captioners Offline (pre-recorded) Captioning Vendors and Captioners Page 9

10 Captioning Vendor Best Practices Real-Time (Live) Captioning Accuracy Percentage of correct words out of total words in program Commission did not adopt accuracy metrics Synchronicity Lag between spoken word and when captions are received Completeness CC shall run from beginning to end Consider mistranslated, incorrect, misspelled, missing words and punctuation Placement Avoid obscuring on-screen information and graphics Page 10

11 Captioning Vendor Best Practices Offline (pre-recorded) Captioning Essentially same recommendations as live content Verbatim and error-free Page 11

12 MVPD - Best Practices Analysis & Monitor for CC presence and accuracy Analyze/ Monitor for Metadata correctness for CC services Analyze/ Monitor for Captioning stream presence and loss Page 12

13 Selected Exemptions Interstitials, promotional announcements and PSAs that are 10 minutes or less Advertising of less than five minutes in duration Late night programming that is distributed between 2 AM and 6 AM local time Programming that consists primarily of non-vocal music Page 13

14 StreamScope MT-50 CC Support The following slide illustrations of test and analysis equipment featuring CC specific dialog is for the purpose of educational examples and end user options in support of this SCTE technical session topic.

15 StreamScope MT-50 Overview and CC features Supports 608, 708-D and SCTE 20/21 in MPEG2 and AVC (H.264) Linear Video Services (MPEG2 Transport) Closed Caption Recording Closed Captioning Rendering Text and Overlay on Video Closed Captioning text file extraction from file Page 15

16 StreamScope MT-50 Overview and CC features Captioning Format Display Captioning Decoder ATSC608/708, SCTE20/21 Captioning Recording Page 16

17 StreamScope MT-50 Overview and CC features Thumbnails MPEG2/4, H.264, AVC Video & Audio rendering Captioning Display 5.1 Audio Level s Page 17

18 StreamScope RM-40 CC Support

19 StreamScope RM-40 Overview and CC features Supports 608, 708-E, SCTE 20 and SCTE 21 in MPEG2 and AVC (H.264) Linear Video Services (MPEG2 Transport) Closed Caption Recording Multiple Simultaneous Services Export Capabilities Encoding Validation Identify possible problems w/ up-stream systems Closed Captioning Existence Captioning detection Rules notification based on service absence over a given period Gating It will be possible to gate closed caption validation based on specific time windows within a given hour. Page 19

20 StreamScope RM-40 CC features High Resolution Reports Generate a captioning report with thumbnails and timed captioned text. Captions and thumbnails are synchronized to a 1 second resolution. Captioning Announcement Validation Detect closed caption descriptors. Report if closed captioning is not announced for any detected caption service. Report any discrepancies between caption announcement with actual caption services. Closed Captioning Validation The ultimate intent is to validate that human-understandable captioning is being delivered on the existing and/or announced services. The difficulty, of course, is to determine human-understandability in measurable terms. Grammar and spelling checks are prohibitively expensive on a large number of services. Closed captioning is considered to be valid if human-readable characters are present over time. Page 20

21 StreamScope RM-40 CC Dashboard Closed Captioning Indicator per Service ATSC 708 ATSC 608 w/ Errors Captions Not Detected Page 16

22 StreamScope RM-40 CC Report with Thumbnails Thumbnail with timestamp Missing EIA 708 Presence detection Missing textual content CC decoding error detection Effected Services Effected Caption Services Page 22

23 Triveni Digital Sales Contacts Ruben Araza Sr. Sales Engineer Team Lead Mobile # Charley Hamilton Sr. Sales Engineer Ralph Bachofen VP of Sales & Marketing RBachofen@trivenidigital.com Eric Knapik Director, Broadcast Sales EKnapik@trivenidigital.com Office# CHamilton@trivenidigital.com Mobile #

24 Thanks for Attending! Triveni Digital Trained Series CC Best Practices with StreamScope

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