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107Compressor User Guide
View captions in the preview area
You can preview the appearance and timing of captions in Compressor in the preview
area. And you can navigate from caption to caption in the Closed Captions inspector or
Subtitles inspector.
1. In the Compressor batch area, select the captions filename (in the row under the
Captions heading).
2. In the preview area, click the Captions button
,
then choose On.
Captions will now be visible in the preview area.
3. To view captions in the preview area, do any of the following:
• Click the Play button to watch the captions appear in real time.
• Drag the playhead to move from caption to caption in the video.
• At the bottom of the Closed Captions inspector or Subtitles inspector (if the
inspector isn’t visible, click the captions filename in the batch area), click a caption
row in the list.
The playhead moves to the timecode start point of the caption you selected, and the
caption appears in the preview area.
View caption error warnings
When a set of captions has timing conflicts or other formatting errors, Compressor
highlights the problem captions in red in the Closed Captions inspector or
Subtitles inspector.
1. In the Compressor batch area, select the captions filename (in the row under the
Captions heading).
2. In the Captions inspector or Subtitles inspector, click the warning button at the top of
the Captions list or Subtitles list.
The warning button is highlighted, and captions without errors are temporarily removed
from the list.
3. Click the error icon to the left of a red caption in the list.
The Errors & Warnings window appears, showing all errors in the job.