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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Spanish: ¿Dónde está el
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niño?
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Está en la casa.
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And in French: Parlez-vous
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français?
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Répétez, s'il vous plâit.
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THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL
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CHARACTERS ARE ALSO
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AVAILABLE.
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THE MUSIC SYMBOL AND
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ACCENTED CHARACTERS.
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For instructive purposes, we purposely inserted two sections in which the text should be further
refined to improve the appearance of the captions. The top of the file does not need any
refinements. The bottom of the file is further refined from lines 35 through 50 using Push and
Pull functions as shown below.
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Spanish:
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¿Dónde está el niño?
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Está en la casa.
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And in French:
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Parlez-vous français?
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Répétez, s'il vous plâit.
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THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL
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CHARACTERS ARE ALSO
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AVAILABLE.
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á é í ó ú à è ì ò ù
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ä ë ï ö ü â ê î ô û
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THEY INCLUDE THE MUSIC
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SYMBOL
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AND ACCENTED CHARACTERS.
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ç ã ñ õ å ¿ ¡ ¢ £
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¥ © ® ™ ° ß ∫
We also need to change the Display Mode to Roll-up. Select the cells, click on the Display Type
and choose Roll-up 3 Lines. This will change all the cells to Roll-up 3. This selection will display
a maximum of 3 lines of captions on the video at any given time.
Notes on Roll-up captioning
1. Pop-on and Paint-on captions can be placed in any of 15 rows on the video screen and
can have a maximum of 32 characters. But Roll-up captions can be placed in only the
bottom 4 rows and top 4 rows on the video screen. To place Roll-up captions anywhere
within these allowable rows, you need to select the cell(s) and change the display mode to
Roll-up.