scc2vtt

Translates Scenarist SCC closed captions to WebVTT

Requires Python3

• This is a work in progress,
• The times and text are accurate, however no formating or positioning is retained .
• Rollups are removed.
• Sys.argv[1] is the input ,
• if sys.argv[2] is present it's the output, else the output file is call out.vtt

How to use

• Full working example.

• Create conv_scc.py

• Write this to conv_scc.py

import scc2vtt
import sys


def name_files():
	if len(sys.argv) > 1:
		infile=sys.argv[1]
		try: outfile=sys.argv[2]
		except: outfile="out.vtt"
	return infile,outfile

if __name__=='__main__':
	infile,outfile=name_files()
	scc2vtt.scc_decoder(infile,outfile)

• Run it like so.

python conv_scc.py  my_in.scc my_out.vtt