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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Draw Vertically
This allows you to align the caption vertically so that the letters are displayed from top to bottom
instead of left to right. The mapping of vertical captions is based on the positions of the captions
in normal horizontal mode. Which means captions placed closer to the bottom will appear on the
right side of the screen when drawn vertically and vice versa. So for positioning with vertical
subtitles the Left side is equivalent to the Top and Right side is equivalent to the Bottom of the
screen. This function is mostly used for character based foreign languages like Chinese,
Japanese.
Time Code Menu
MacCaption has two situations where it deals with time code. One of these is when it matches
the current movie frame with a given caption or subtitle time and the other is when it displays the
current time code for a caption or subtitle.
The Time Code > Mode menu sets the basic frame counting and time code display algorithm for
MacCaption. If the mode is set PAL all time codes have a maximum of 25 frames. If the mode is
set to NTSC drop frame all time codes will correspond to the NTSC drop frame specification.
When MacCaption plays a movie and displays its associated caption, the software looks for the
closest caption whose time code is less than the current movie time. The manner in which it does
this is to calculate an absolute frame offset starting from time code 00:00:00:00. The frame offset
for the movie as well as the frame offset for the caption is performed in the current time code
mode. MacCaption will warn you if the current movie's time frame is different from the current
calculation mode and if you are going to eventually put captions into your movie, MacCaption's
time code mode should be set to your movie time code frame display rate before you begin to
synchronize caption or subtitle text.
The options under Time Code > Convert Time Code can be used to change imported captions in
one time frame to another. The Convert Time Code function also changes the current time code
calculation mode to the target time code calculation mode.
Mode >>
Set Blank Frames…
Convert Time Code…
Fill-In All Caption Times…
Movie Time…
Reading Speed…
Ripple Time Code…
Stretch/Shrink Time Code…