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MCC to CSV converter, without the upload.

Turn MCC captions into CSV. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.

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How to convert MCC to CSV

  1. Add your MCC captions

    Drop MCC (MacCaption) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.

  2. CSV is already chosen

    Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.

  3. Download

    Save the CSV, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.

Why ToAny

  • Private by construction

    The MCC to CSV converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your captions are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.

  • No upload, no queue

    Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.

  • Free, without an account

    No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.

MCC to CSV: what to expect

MCC is a hex dump that most players, and people, cannot read. CSV is plain text that every spreadsheet, database and script can read. MCC is at home in closed captions for broadcast and streaming delivery that carry CEA-708 as well as CEA-608; CSV is the usual choice for moving tabular data between systems.

The text is read as UTF-8 or UTF-16, whichever the file is. An older file in another code page is read using the charset it declares, or as Windows-1252 if it declares none, so accented letters in an unlabelled legacy file can come out wrong. A file that is not text, such as the picture-based subtitles of a DVD, is refused instead of being converted to nonsense. The CEA-608 caption data inside each packet is read, as for SCC. Captions that exist only as CEA-708 service data are not read. The result has the columns index, start, end and text, with times as HH:MM:SS.mmm, and starts with a byte-order mark so Excel reads accented letters correctly.

MCC vs CSV

MCC

MCC closed captions

MCC is MacCaption's caption file: one line per video frame, each a caption distribution packet in hexadecimal that can hold both CEA-608 and CEA-708 data. It exists so that captions can follow the video's own frame rate, 24 to 60 fps, and so that one file serves analogue and digital caption decoders.

Opens in MacCaption, CaptionMaker, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve

MCC converter
CSV

CSV spreadsheet

CSV is a table written as text: one row per line, values separated by commas. Every spreadsheet and database can import and export it, but it holds one sheet only and no formatting, formulas or data types.

Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, databases and any text editor

CSV converter
MCC compared with CSV
MCCMCC closed captionsCSVCSV spreadsheet
Stands forMacCaption Closed CaptionsComma-Separated Values
TypeSubtitlesPlain-text table
CompressionNone (hex text)None
IntroducedThe 2000s, by Computer Prompting and Captioning Company (CPC)The 1970s, by no single author (described in RFC 4180)
Opens inMacCaption, CaptionMaker, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci ResolveExcel, Google Sheets, Numbers, databases and any text editor
Best forClosed captions for broadcast and streaming delivery that carry CEA-708 as well as CEA-608Moving tabular data between systems
File extension.mcc.csv

Questions

Are my captions uploaded anywhere?

No. The MCC to CSV conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.

Is anything lost when converting MCC to CSV?

The content is carried over as faithfully as CSV allows; features that CSV does not have are left out.

Can I convert several MCC files at once?

Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.

How do I convert MCC to CSV on Windows, Mac, iPhone or Android?

The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the MCC file, press Convert and save the CSV. There is nothing to install.

Is there a file size limit?

Yes, but a subtitle file is small. Files up to 50 MB are accepted, far more than any real subtitle file. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.