User`s guide

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There are no settings or configurations you need to setup. The vPedal will operate the
play, pause, forward, and rewind functions of the video
When you hit pause, and then resume again, the video will skip back 1 second so you do
not have to rewind
To change this skip time to something longer than the 1 second default, go to vPedal
Player >> Preferences and change the value in the Auto-backup time field
To change how fast the video plays, change the Default forward/rewind rate field
Now open up a TextEdit file or a Word document and begin transcribing. If you want to,
you can resize the video and your Text Editing window so that the two or side by side.
Text file formats
You can use text files in one of the following formats.
1. The unformatted demo.txt file provided for this video looks like this
I'M AT THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN. SO CAPTIONS OF WHAT I SAY APPEAR
AT THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN, TOO. NOW I'M AT THE RIGHT OF THE
SCREEN, SO MY CAPTIONS APPEAR AT THE RIGHT. NOW I AM GOING OFF-
SCREEN. TO INDICATE THAT I'M OFF-SCREEN, WHATEVER I SAY IS
ITALICIZED. NOW MY NAME APPEARS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, WE
PUT CAPTIONS OF WHAT I SAY AT THE TOP, SO THAT MY NAME IS NOT
COVERED BY CAPTIONS. UP UNTIL NOW, WE HAVE BEEN USING POP-ON
CAPTIONS. WHEN A NEW CAPTION POPS ON, THE OLD CAPTION DISAPPEARS.
THIS IS A PAINT-ON CAPTION. ONE CAPTION BLOCK IS PAINTED ON THE
SCREEN, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, ONE CHARACTER AT A TIME. NOW THE
ROLL-UP MODE. THIS MODE IS NORMALLY USED FOR TV NEWS PROGRAMS.
CAPTION LINES ROLL UP FROM THE SCREEN BOTTOM ONE LINE AT A TIME.
Captions can appear in lower case, and also in Spanish: ¿Dónde
está el niño? Está en la casa. And in French: Parlez-vous
français? Répétez, s'il vous plaît. THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL
CHARACTERS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE. á é í ó ú à è ì ò ù ä ë ï ö ü â ê
î ô û THEY INCLUDE THE MUSIC SYMBOL AND ACCENTED CHARACTERS. ç ã
ñ õ å ¿ ¡¢ £ ¥ © ® ™ ° ß §
2. Formatted text where each line of text is formatted as one caption.
I'M AT THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN.
SO CAPTIONS OF WHAT I SAY
APPEAR AT THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN, TOO.
NOW I'M AT THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN,
SO MY CAPTIONS APPEAR AT THE RIGHT.
NOW I AM GOING OFF-SCREEN.
TO INDICATE THAT I'M OFF-SCREEN,
WHATEVER I SAY IS ITALICIZED.