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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• Windows Media Player file SAMI (version 6 or version 7, 8, 9 and 10), use Windows
Media Player.
• Timed Text DFXP file for Flash, use the Flash XML for CS3 [Timed Text DFXP] (.xml)
file option.
• Flash Captionate plug-in, use the Flash XML for Captionate (.xml) file option.
• Flash text file with timecode, use the Flash Text (.txt) file option.
• SRT for YouTube or Google Video, use the YouTube (.srt) file option.
• QuickTime SMIL and Text file, use the QuickTime (.txt, smi) file option.
• Tab delimited plain text file, use the export Plain Text file option and select the
appropriate settings for tab separators.
Multi Language Export
• Merge import template for translators and editing text in a word processor, use the For
Multiple Language file option.
Caption Formatted Video Files
• MPEG-2 (DTV/ATSC) movie, use ATSC DTV 608/708 Closed Captions (to MPEG2).
(for transport stream multiplexing select the Manzanita option in the pop-up window,
Manzanita multiplexer must be installed in your Applications folder).
• DV, use DV/DVCPRO 720x480 (25/50) Closed Captions file option.
• DV (open caption), use NLE >> Video with Open Captions.
• Add SD closed captions using Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Media 100 or TARGA
hardware, use Black 720x486 NLE Movie with Closed Captions. (editing timelines in the
non-linear editing system must be set to 720x486 for this option).
• 720x486 NLE QuickTime Movie directly, use CCIR 601/4:2:2 P@ML Video with
Closed Captions.
• MPEG-2 (DVD) movie, use DVD closed captions (to MPEG-2).
• MXF file for playback on an XDCAM HD Sony VTR, use HD>Material eXchange
Format (.mxf) file option.
• 4VANC closed captions to a QuickTime video file for playback on the Matrox MXO2,
use the HD>Matrox 4VANC Closed Captions file option. (MacCaption can add an 8
th
audio track to your existing QuickTime video file with the proper 4VANC closed caption
data)
• 4VANC audio file for importing into a Final Cut Pro timeline, use the HD>Matrox
4VANC Closed Caption option and de-select “create closed caption output movie using
currently opened movie”.
• 608/708 QuickTime Closed Caption Track to QuickTime Video File for playback on the
AJA Kona cards, use the QuickTime DTV 608/708 Closed Caption Track file option.
• Add 608/708 closed caption data to a DVCPRO HD (100) QuickTime file compatible
with a FireWire DVCPRO 1400 Panasonic VTR or Omneon Server, use the
HD>DVCPRO HD (100) .mov closed captions file option.
• Add 608 closed captions to any QuickTime file for playback on QuickTime Player,
iTunes, iPod/iPhone, use the Web/Podcast>QuickTime Closed Caption (Podcast/Web)
file option.’