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captions from the current caption to the last caption is to option-shift click two times in the
current caption. To select all of the captions from the current caption to the first caption simply
option-shift click in the first caption and then option-shift click in the caption immediately above
it.
Moving Caption Text in the Movie Window
When displaying text as captions, the captions may be moved directly in the movie window in a
number of ways.
In the movie window
1. Click in the caption text and drag it to a new position.
2. Double click on a caption row to highlight it and drag that row to a new position or shift
click on more than one row and drag the selected rows to a new position.
3. Click once in the movie window to select it. The selected movie window will have a
highlighted border. Then…
1. Use the arrow keys to move the caption text one text space at a time.
2. Use shift arrow keys to move the captions to the left, right, top and bottom edges.
3. Use the ‘l’, ‘r’, ‘t’ and ‘b’ keys to move the captions to the left, right, top and
bottom edges.
Suggested Styles and Conventions
Caption Media Program (National Association of Deaf) has created a style guide, which is
available from www.cpcweb.com/download/CaptionKey.pdf.
This is a very helpful guide to understand the styles and conventions used to caption a video. We
strongly encourage you to read this document before producing captioned video.