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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AutoSyncing
To check your work – formatting, positioning, time stamping, you need to check the Autosync
button as shown below:
The video will start playing and you will see the captions displayed on top of the video at the
time you assigned.
If, after checking the placement of the captions, you notice any timing or positioning is not
correct, click the Stop button under the Movie Area. Then click on the caption block before the
one you need to fix and press the Time Stamp button. When the movie starts to play again, you
can assign the new time code by pressing the in button again. You can repeat this step as many
times as necessary until the caption appears at the desired time. The time code can also be
adjusted manually by clicking in the time code field and entering the desired time code with the
number keys.
Exporting Video with Captions
After you create a caption/subtitle file, you are ready to export caption or subtitles to multiple
media. To export, go to the file menu and click Export. Choose the desired format and select the
desired options.
MacCaption can export closed captions and open captions for a number of different uses.
Caption Formatted Files
• CPC-715 ".onl" file use CPC-715 ".onl" File. This file can be used with the Windows
based CPC CaptionMaker® software.
• MacCaption Closed Caption “.mcc” document that contains both 608/708 closed caption
data for HD/SD equipment such as the Harris Nexio server, use the MacCaption VANC
data file (.mcc) file option.
• Cheetah “*.asc” file, use Cheetah International (.asc) file option.
• Cheetah “*.cap” file, use Cheetah International (.cap) file option.
• DVD closed caption data file, use DVD File (.scc) file option.
• Caption Center “*.tds” file, use Caption Center (.tds) file option.
• Caption, Inc. “*.cin” file, use Captions, Inc. (.cin) file option.
• Evertz Procap text file, use Evertz Procap (.txt) file option.
• Ultech “*.ult” file, use the Ultech (.ult) file option.
Webcast Group
• RealVideo RealText file use RealText ".rt" File.