User`s guide

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To watch a real time analog TV broadcast with captions on your computer, connect the analog
video and audio output from a VCR (connected to the broadcast signal) to the analog video and
audio input of your DV camera or DV VCR and connect the Digital/FireWire output of your
camera to your computer.
You may use the retrieved caption data to edit the captions or create a DVD video with captions
or export caption files for video-on-demand Webcasts for QT, WMP or RealPlayer.
Roll-up Captioning
A Roll-up Captioning Exercise: Since Roll-up captioning is the easiest mode of
captioning, the following section is devoted to all the information you need to caption a
video in Roll-up mode.
Roll-up captioning is a good starting point because it is the easiest method to learn and use. With
a minimum of time and effort, you can actually do some real captioning using the Roll-up mode.
We will use the same the text file, demo.txt, and the video file demo.mov for this tutorial.
In Roll-up captioning, each row in the Work Area equals one caption line of up to 32 characters.
First, enter the dialogue that is on the video into any word processor. Save the file as a text file.
MacCaption can import a text file.
Next we will show how the text is broken up into individual captions automatically, with each
new caption starting at the end of sentence punctuation points (.?!).
To have MacCaption automatically break the text so it can be used for Roll-up captioning,
choose the following Text Import Options.
 Check the Maximum number of text rows box. Choose 1 text row for Roll-up.
 Check the Maximum number of characters box. The usual number of characters per line
is 29 for Roll-up.
 Check the End caption at end of sentence punctuation: (.?!) box.
(32 is the maximum # of characters per line. See note below why choose 29)
Note on formatting: The selection of Each Row made of [1 ] line(s) of text is
extremely important. You must always select 1 line per row (cell) when captioning in the
Roll-up mode.