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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Set Caption Data Lower Limit
This allows you to set the lower limit for caption blocks. Captions before the lower limit (LL)
mark will not be encoded.
Set Decode Channel
Set the channel to CC1, CC2, CC3, or CC4 for decoding line 21 captions. Set the channel to
“CC1 in DTV” through “CC4 in DTV” to decode 608 captions from DTV encoded files. Set the
channel to “708 in DTV” and then select a service number in the “Set Decode Channel Service
Number” menu to decode 708 captions. Captioned videos that you are importing from the
Import menu will then be decoded according to the channel you have selected.
Attributes
Display Mode
The Display Mode menu item opens a submenu, which offers the following options for caption
appearance: Pop-On, Paint-On, Roll-Up 2 lines, Roll-Up 3 lines, Roll-Up 4 lines.
Subtitles can only appear as Pop-On.
Text Color
Used to change the color of the text.
Bold/Flash
Makes the selected text bold. Bold text is not supported for captioning. Bold text can only be
used for subtitling. Flashing text is not supported for subtitling. Flashing text can only be used
for captioning.
Italic
Makes the selected text italic. Italics are used to indicate off-screen speakers in captioning, or
untranslatable and/or stressed words in subtitling.
Underline
Underlines the selected text.
Horizontal Justification
There are three possible horizontal justifications: Left, Center and Right
Horizontal Position
In captioning, there are only 32 possible horizontal positions. They are numbered 1 through 32. 1
also means L (left).