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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In addition to clicking on these buttons, you can use your keyboard to do the same things.
To go forward or back by 1 frame: press right or left arrow keys.
To go forward or back by 10 frames: press Control + right or left arrow keys.
To go forward or back by 30 frames: press Shift + right or left arrow keys.
Video Control Hotkeys
You can also use the standard J, K, and L keys to control playback of the video. The “J” key will
rewind the video at a progressively faster rate the more you press it, the “K” key will play and
pause the video, and the “L” key will forward the video at a progressively faster rate the more
you press it.
The Caption Text Area
The Caption Text Area occupies the right side of the Edit Window. By dragging a text file or a
data file into the Caption Text Area you can import caption text into MacCaption.
The upper part of the Caption Text Area displays the Starting Time, Horizontal and Vertical,
Justification and Display Mode of the currently selected caption. You can set the Horizontal
Position, Vertical Position, Justification, or Display Mode of the currently selected caption or a
range of captions with these controls.
Located below the status information for the currently selected caption are a number of controls
that allow you to format a caption. Starting at the left side are three controls with the letters L, C
and R. Each of these controls can be set to one of three justification modes with its associated
pull down menu. These controls along with their respective pull down menu will format the
current caption or a selected range of captions to be Left, Center or Right justified, and within
the caption the individual lines will be left, center or right justified. The respective L, C or R
buttons are grayed when the justification of the currently selected caption matches the
justification associated with the button.
The and controls to the immediate right of the R button move caption text to the top and
bottom of the caption area.
The and controls will respectively change the current caption's selected text to Italic and
Underline.
The , , , and controls will respectively insert, delete, split and merge captions.
There are also in and out buttons, which are used to assign time codes to each caption.