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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the Change to box and click Change. To change all occurrences of the word in the caption text
click Change All.
To ignore the specific word click Ignore. To ignore all occurrences of the word click Ignore All.
MacCaption maintains a dictionary of user supplied words. To add the current word to the User
Dictionary click Add. To create a new User Dictionary or change the current User Dictionary
click Dictionary. The MacCaption User Dictionary typically has a file name that ends with the
.ccd suffix although this is not required. Words are stored in the User Dictionary as 16 bit
Unicode wit one word per line. The User Dictionary can be edited with a text editor that supports
16 bit Unicode.
To switch the language that the dictionary is using choose the appropriate language with the
Language pop up in the Spell Check dialog box. To restart spell checking at the beginning of the
caption text after choosing a new language click on Cancel and reenter the Spell Check dialog.
Content Advisory Information
MacCaption has the capability to generate Content Advisory Information and V-Chip Program
Rating Data.
Content Advisory Information is specific information about the program material. The Content
Advisory Information is sent along with video and close caption information to the end user. You
can enter any, all, or none of the information in the Content Advisory Information dialog box.
Select Include Content Advisory Information to generate Content Advisory Information.
The window allows you to enter information about your program, including; Program Name,
Length (hours and minutes), Keyword Group and Details.
In the United States the Television Parental Guide rating system should be used for all
productions that are not motion pictures.
V-Chip
V-Chip Program Rating Data
The V-Chip is a small electronic part in a television receiver that implements a program rating
system and controls whether or not a specific television program can be viewed. The V-Chip
supports the Television Parental Guidelines, the Motion Picture Association of America
Guidelines, the Canadian English Language and the Canadian French Language rating systems.
Only one rating system can be specified for a program.
The V-Chip program rating information is sent along with the video and close caption
information to the end user.