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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You may also download the most recent manual and project files described below from the
downloads page: www.cpcweb.com/download/mac-download.htm to get a complete picture of
how MacCaption works from start to finish.
You may download the files below to get a complete picture of how MacCaption works.
a. Overall picture - Installation - Import/Exports:
www.cpcweb.com/demo/MacCaption_demo_Instructions.pdf
b. Step by step instructions to prepare a caption file:
www.cpcweb.com/demo/Prepare_Captionfile_MacCaption.pdf
c. Demo text and completely prepared caption files (5 KB)
www.cpcweb.com/download/MacCaption/Demo.zip
d. Complete MacCaption manual (in PDF format)
www.cpcweb.com/download/MacCaption/MacCaptionTutorial.pdf
e. Sample DV_720x480.mov (295 MB)
www.cpc-usa.com/1ccaption/DemoDV720_480_MOV/Demo_DV_720x480_CC.mov
To get an idea of how the text is broken up into individual captions or subtitles, you may open
the project demo.cca and invoke AutoSync. To accomplish this,
Run the MacCaption software.
1. Drag the demo.cca file to anywhere inside the MacCaption application.
2. Click on the Autosync button in the Control Mode section under the Movie Area
You will see the video being played on the screen and captions will appear on the video. You
will notice
1. Captions are placed at different locations on the screen
2. Captions in Italics
3. Three different modes of captions – Pop-on, Paint-on and Roll-up
4. All available accented characters for Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and
Dutch, and a few special characters
The video is about a minute and a half long. There are about 30 captions in all. This project is a
very complex one covering almost all possible scenarios you will encounter in captioning your
videos. We did this to illustrate the capabilities of MacCaption.
If you follow the instructions below, you will be able to create a project like demo.cca in an hour
(we hope). After you master it, it should not take more than 6-10 minutes to caption a very
complex 1-1/2 minute job such as this demo.
To caption a video, you must have the script of the video in hand before starting the caption
processes. To format and time Roll-up captions, (since it does not involve any positioning),
typically it takes about 2 to 3 times the length of the video. To format and time Pop-on captions,
it can take anywhere between 6 to 8 times the length of the video.