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4. The Assemble Captions window will pop up and you will have the following options:
a. Conform .scc time codes to 00:00:00:00
b. Conform final result to sequence starting time
c. Erase current program data before adding new captions
d. Force caption erase at clip boundary
e. Preserve MacCaption decoded caption data as .scc files
f. Remove clip boundary captions that display less than 1 second
g. Use specific decoded data file location and the “Set Location” button
5. Once you have set your desired Assemble Caption Setting press OK and the captions for
the edited clip will now sync up to the final edited video.
There are several options that should be set according to different needs. This manual will cover
all the options associated with the Assemble Captions menu below:
Decoding Final Cut Pro QuickTime video assets for Assemble Captions option
Go to Caption>Decode Preferences… and you will find 3 options for decoding closed caption
information from a QuickTime File. Select “Remove erase if caption blanking is less than __
frames” if you would like MacCaption to keep all the captioning data that comes after an edited
cut in the Final Cut Pro timeline. Otherwise, MacCaption will automatically delete captions that
are less than the specified frame time.
The following options will appear in the Assemble Caption windows:
a. Conform .scc time codes to 00:00:00:00 – This option allows MacCaption to decode SCC
files from captioned QuickTime video files and offset them to a starting time
00:00:00:00. The resulting SCC file can appear in either the same folder as the
QuickTime video by default, or in a user selected folder location.
b. Conform final result to sequence starting time – Selecting this option will conform the
starting timecode of the captions to the starting timecode of the Final Cut Pro sequence.
If the FCP sequence starts at 01:00:00:00 then the decoded captions will also start at this
time. When deselected, the starting timecode of the captions is set to 00:00:00:00 by
default.
c. Erase current program data before adding new captions - This option erases any captions
currently opened in your MacCaption application prior to importing the new assemble
caption from Final Cut Pro. This feature saves the extra step of starting a new project in
order to clear the caption project of caption data before doing the Assemble Caption
function.
d. Force caption erase at clip boundary – Depending on the caption data, there may be times
when a cut in the video may break the caption timecode that extends beyond the length of
the cut. In addition, there may be captions that come in before the dialogue starts and the
Final Cut Timeline may have edited out the rest of the dialogue. This option
automatically deletes these captions in order to accurately represent the edited timeline.