Open SCC files in your browser
The closed captions of American TV, as broadcasters and editors trade them. Drop an SCC with its video to watch it on it, or open it alone to read every line. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your subtitles show on the video they're dropped with, or open alone as a table of every line with its time.
- Shown on the video they're dropped with
- Alone, every line with its start, end and length
- Search • Every match counted
- Export • Save as CSV, Excel or JSON
About SCC
SCC files come from Scenarist, a DVD authoring tool, and became how broadcasters, streaming services and editors like Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro trade the CEA-608 closed captions of American TV, the ones a TV draws itself.
An SCC is text, but not readable: each line is a timecode, then pairs of bytes in hex, like 9420 9452, the very codes sent to a TV in line 21 of the picture: the letters, their colors, where a caption sits and when it shows.
Filepeek works through those codes as a TV would, pop-on, roll-up and paint-on captions alike, into lines with their times. Dropped with a video, an SCC named like it shows on the picture. Alone, it opens as a table of every line with its start, end and length, to search and save as CSV.
Scenarist Closed Captions
.scc
Format
- MIME type
- text/plain
- Made by
- Sonic Solutions' Scenarist
Inside the file
- Holds
- CEA-608 caption codes
- Times
- Timecode at 29.97 frames a second
- Captions
- Pop-on, roll-up, paint-on
- Markup
- Pairs of bytes in hex
Opens in every browser
Filepeek shows SCC captions on videos and as a table in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers show them as lines of hex.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open SCC
- WindowsPremiere Pro and Subtitle Edit
- MacFinal Cut Pro and Premiere Pro
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I read what an SCC says?
Drop it on this page. Its codes become lines of text with their times, to read, search and save as CSV.
How do I show an SCC on a video?
Drop the video and its captions together, or the folder that holds them. A file named like the video shows on it at once, and the Subtitles button picks another or turns them off.
Why do my captions show an hour late?
Broadcast SCC files often count from 01:00:00:00, the timecode the program started at on tape. The table shows each line at the time the file gives, and Subtitle Edit shifts every line back an hour.
Why are a few letters missing?
CEA-608 has its own small set of letters, and a caption made with a character outside it loses that character in any player. The rest of the line shows as the TV would draw it.