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Opening a Text File
Note: Besides opening a simple free format text file, you can also import many other
text files with time codes and caption files. For details, see the chapter entitled Importing
Text and Caption File.
In this section we will describe how to format the text for Pop-on captioning.
Roll-up Captioning: Since Roll-up captioning is the easiest mode of captioning, check
the end of this chapter for instructions to create roll-up captions.
Go to the File menu and select Import captions. Select Plain Text File format.
(You may also drag the text file demo.txt to the text area on the right side)
Select the file demo.txt. A Text Import Options window will pop up.
If you are working with English or any European languages, make sure you do not check the box
• Read text as Unicode (UTF-16)
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Treat each line of text as one caption.
(Text may include an optional tab delimited in and out time code)
• Combine text lines to form captions.
o Maximum number of text rows for each caption: 1
o Maximum number of characters for each line of text: 29
o Begin caption with the following sequence of characters: >
o End caption with an end of sentence punctuation: (.?!)
o End caption with the following character: }
o End last row with a comma (,) or semi-colon (;) if applicable.
o Square up text if more than oneline of text in a row.
Default Display Mode Pop-On
• Convert UniCode characters such as open quote to straight quote.
• Read text as Unicode (UTF-16)