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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• Add a QuickTime Text Track to a QuickTime file, use the Web>QuickTime Text Track
file option.
Exporting Video with Subtitles
To export, go to the file menu and click Export. Choose the desired format and select the desired
options.
MacCaption can export subtitles for a number of different uses.
• For Final Cut Pro, use Apple XML file to be
• For single frame per subtitle movie use Black Movie with Single Frame Subtitles
• For multiple frame per subtitle movie use Black Movie with Multiple Frame Subtitles
• For DVD subtitle for DVD studio Pro, Spruce, Scenarist data file use DVD Subtitles File.
• For MPEG movie use MPEG Movie with Subtitles
• For QuickTime file, use the Web >> QuickTime Subtitle Track file option.
• Texas Instruments DLP file for Cinema viewing, use the Texas Instruments DLP Cinema
XML (.xml) file option.
Check the online help and also the Chapter on Exporting Files in the later part of this manual for
details.
Retrieve Captions
MacCaption can display and decode video and its associated closed captions, plus capture the
closed captions as a text file with timecodes from a
• 720x480 DV video residing on the hard drive
• 720x486 NLE video residing on the hard drive
• MPEG-2 Transport/Program Stream video residing on the hard drive
• DV tape via FireWire
• DVD-Video VOB file or MPEG-2 ripped from DVD-Video.
• DVCPRO HD QuickTime File (Captured FireWire or through Omneon Server)
• MXF XDCAM HD File
• MXF Harris Nexio Teletext DV File
• SD/HD video via Matrox MXO2 4VANC Audio File
• QuickTime/Podcast 608 Closed Caption Track
• QuickTime File with Text Track
• SD/HD via AJA Kona 608/708 QuickTime Track
• HD via BlackMagic 10 bit uncompressed QuickTime file