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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Check the End caption at end of sentence punctuation: (.?!) box for all caption modes
Pop-on/Paint-on/Roll-up.
For this tutorial, check the box.
For Pop-on/Paint-on captions, check the End a row at a comma (,) or semi-colon (;) if
applicable box. For Roll-up, leave this unchecked.
For this tutorial, check the box.
Check the Square up text box. It makes the captions of more than 1 line squared up.
Click OK
Before we start formatting, positioning and time coding the individual captions, let’s get familiar
with the most frequently used icons used in that process. All of these icon operations can be
accessed from the menus and almost all of these operations can also be accessed via keystrokes.
With the knowledge of all the operations described above, let’s format the text, and assign time
codes to each caption.
After you import the text file, the file will be automatically formatted per your instructions as
follows:
Cells
Captions
1
I'M AT THE LEFT
OF THE SCREEN.
2
SO CAPTIONS OF WHAT I SAY
APPEAR AT THE LEFT OF THE
3
SCREEN, TOO.
4
NOW I'M AT THE RIGHT
OF THE SCREEN,
5
SO MY CAPTIONS APPEAR
AT THE RIGHT.
6
NOW I AM OFF-SCREEN.
7
TO INDICATE THAT I'M
OFF-SCREEN,
8
WHATEVER I SAY IS ITALICIZED.
9
NOW MY NAME APPEARS
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN,
10
WE PUT CAPTIONS OF WHAT I
SAY AT THE TOP,
11
SO THAT MY NAME IS NOT
COVERED BY CAPTIONS.
12
UP UNTIL NOW, WE HAVE
BEEN USING POP-ON
13
CAPTIONS.
14
WHEN A NEW CAPTION POPS
ON,
15
THE OLD CAPTION DISAPPEARS.
16
THIS IS A
PAINT-ON CAPTION.