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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-help - Output a brief command line summary
-s - Silent – suppress most processing status messages
-m - Invoke MacCaption program after processing
-tcmode=mode - Time code calculation mode: where mode can be one of:
23.976, 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97df, 29.97ndf, 59.94
Default is 29.97df
-codec=codec - Choose output codec:
Valid codecs: animation, appleprores422, appleprores422hq, uncompressed8bit422, uncompressed10bit422
-codecdepth=[24,32] - Specify the codec depth: 24 (millions) or 32 (millions+)
Default is 32
-displaymode=[caption,subtitle] - Choose the display mode: use ‘caption’ for 32 columns, use ‘subtitle’
for 48columns
Default is ‘caption’
-onleprimaryrow=[0-484] - NLE black movie export primary row
-ostartingcolumn=[14-39] - NLE black movie export starting column
-osmallQuickTime=[TF] - NLE small QuickTime enabled (True), disabled (False)
-ousenativeycbcrlevels[TF] - NLE black movie export use native YCbCr levels
input_parameters
-import=type –ioptions=options –input=input_file
where type is one of the following kind of files to import
assemblecaptions_applexml - Assemble captions from an Apple Interchange Format
XML file
captioncenter_tds - Caption Center .tds file
cca - MacCaption .cca file
cheetah_asc - Cheetah .asc file
cheetah_cap - Cheetah .cap file
cpc_onl - CPC 715 .onl file
dv - DV 720x480 video
mcc - MacCaption .mcc file
nci_cap - NCI .cap file
nle - CCIR 601 720x486 video
plaintext - Plain text file
scc - Scenarist .scc file
subrip_srt - subrip .srt file
ultech_ult - Ultech .ult file
options follows the following format
[ABCD] - Specifies which Program (A, B, C or D) receives import
- Default is 'A'
[123456789] - Specifies which type of caption to import
- Use 1, 2, 3, and 4 for CC1, CC2, CC3 and CC4
- Use 5, 6, 7, and 8 for CC1, CC2, CC3 and CC4 in DTV
- Use 9 for 708 captions in DTV
- Default is '1'
[abcd] - Specifies source Program A, B, C or D when importing a
.cca file
- Default is 'a'
output_parameters
-export=type -encodecc=encode_options –output=output_file
where type is one of the following kind of files to export
apple_xml - Apple XML Interchange Format
black601 - Black CCIR 601 720x486 movie
dv - DV movie
dv_ksc5601 - DV movie with Korean captions
matrox4vanc - Matrox 4VANC file for MXO2
mcc - MacCaption .mcc file