# Typical scenarios for handling captions
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Following are some sample use cases for captions in MediaLive. The use cases are ordered from less to more complicated. They are intended to illustrate many of the capabilities of MediaLive.

**Topics**
+ [Use case A: One input format to one output and not converted](use-case-one-input-format-to-one-output-format-not-converted.md)
+ [Use case B: One input format converted to one different format in one output](use-case-one-input-format-to-different-output-formats.md)
+ [Use case C: One input format converted to different formats, one format for each output](use-case-one-input-format-to-several-output-formats.md)
+ [Use case D: One captions output shared by multiple video encodes](use-case-one-captions-output-multiple-video-encodes.md)