User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Overview
- Hardware Requirements
- Software Installation
- Caption/Subtitle Preparation
- A prepared final project
- The Captioning Process
- The Edit Window
- Now Let’s Get Your Feet Wet
- Retrieve Captions
- Roll-up Captioning
- Suggested Styles and Conventions
- Special Topics
- Import/Export Text & Caption/Subtitle Files
- ASCII Text (unformatted)
- ASCII Text (formatted)
- ASCII Text Files (Tab Delimited)
- Caption Center Files (.tds)
- Captions, Inc. Files (.cin)
- Cheetah Caption Files (.asc)
- Cheetah Caption Files (.cap)
- CPC-715 Online Files (.onl)
- DVD Caption Files (.scc)
- QuickTime/Podcast Closed Caption File (.srt)
- EBU Subtitle File (.stl)
- Ultech Files (.ult)
- Exporting ASCII Text Files
- Using International Character Sets with MacCaption
- Preparing Foreign Language Text
- Exporting Captions/Subtitles
- DV – 720x480 video
- NLE 720x486 Videos
- Avid Media Composer
- Notes on Animation Codec
- Add Captions using Avid ABVB Hardware
- Add Captions using Avid Express Pro
- Add Captions using Avid Meridien Hardware
- Add Captions using the Media 100
- Add Captions using Pinnacle Systems
- Add Captions using Pinnacle TARGA 3000 & Adobe Premier
- Add Captions using Blackmagic Design DeckLink Extreme
- MPEG-2 (DVD) 720x480 Video
- MPEG-2 (DTV/ATSC)
- HD Tapes
- HD/SD Captioning using Matrox MXO2
- HD/SD Captioning using AJA Kona
- Add Subtitles to Digital Videos
- Adding Captions to Videos for Webcasts
- Flash Video.
- YouTube/Google Video
- QuickTime Text Track
- QuickTime Movie
- Real Video
- Windows Media Video
- Importing Captions
- Captioning with an External Encoder
- Menus
- Preferences
- File Menu
- New Window/Close Window
- Edit Menu
- Display Menu
- Font
- Program A, B, C, D, E, F
- Show Caption Grid
- Show Safe Titles
- Show Time Code
- Display as Subtitles or Captions
- Caption Menu
- Encode Preferences
- Decode Preferences
- Set Caption Data Lowest Limit…
- Set Caption Data Lower Limit
- Set Decode Channel
- Attributes
- Convert Illegal Caption Characters
- Device
- Properties
- Initialize Device
- Close Device
- Send Caption
- Erase Caption
- Live Caption
- Live Caption Options
- Subtitle Menu
- Time Code Menu
- Format Menu
- Special Menu
- Windows Menu
- Help Menu
- Suggestions for Breaking Lines
- Selecting Multiple Caption Text Boxes
- Moving Caption Text in the Movie Window
- Suggested Styles and Conventions
- Copy to Program A
- From To
- Trouble Shooting
- Appendix
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Captioning DV Video
If your original digital video is a DV video, and you transfer the video to a tape via FireWire,
then the DV function will work well. MacCaption can create a copy of your 720 x 480 DV video
file with the caption data in the VAUX data area. You would need a caption compatible DV deck
or a Sony DVMC-DA2 digital to analog (in case you want a BetaSP or Digibeta) converter to
dump the DV video on a tape.
For details on compatible hardware for DV video, visit
www.cpcweb.com/dv/dv-hardware.htm#Sony_DVMC-DA2
You can then use the MacCaption’s “print to video” function to get a closed captioned version of
the video out to tape.
Captioning MPEG-2 (SD & DVD) Video
You can also add captions to the data area of all SD (720x480 or so) and DVD MPEG-2 video
directly, without using an NLE system. After adding captions to a DVD MPEG-2 video you can
burn a DVD.
After adding captions to a SD MPEG-2 video, you can store the video on your video data server,
and transmit the video to a different location. Captions are going to stay in the data area of the
video.
Captioning MPEG-2 (HD) Video
MacCaption (including the demo version) can decode/retrieve both 708 and 608 captions from
MPEG-2 transport streams, including ATSC DTV broadcast streams. You can verify that your
stream is compliant with FCC regulations and that the 708 captions are encoded properly.
MacCaption-HD ties into Manzanita’s multiplexing software to generate 708/608 closed captions
in CableLabs-compliant HD MPEG-2 transport streams (requires Manzanita software to be
installed separately) for tapeless delivery to networks and VOD.
Users without Manzanita software can add captions to generic MPEG-2 Elementary and Program
streams. The MPEG-2 can be SD or HD. Captions can be formatted in any one of the following
styles: ATSC DTV 608/708, DVD, CCube/LSI DVx 608 Linear or CCube/LSI DVx 608
Temporal. SCTE20-style 608 captions can also be decoded.
Captioning NLE Video
The advantage of a non-linear solution is that you can work with your 720x486 uncompressed
video and add captions without losing any quality.
The editing software package that you use to create the video is not as big of a concern as the
hardware path used to get the video off of your system and onto the tape. Some hardware boards