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Import/Export Text &
Caption/Subtitle Files
MacCaption can import variety of files as described below.
Sample files are included on the MacCaption distribution CD.
ASCII Text (unformatted)
MacCaption can import plain unformatted text as shown below.
I'M AT THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN. SO CAPTIONS OF WHAT I SAY APPEAR AT THE LEFT
OF THE SCREEN, TOO. NOW I'M AT THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN, SO MY CAPTIONS APPEAR
AT THE RIGHT. NOW I AM GOING OFF-SCREEN.
Here you can choose how you want your text broken up into individual captions. For those who
insert special characters into their transcripts to indicate where captions start and end, this is
where you can you specify those particular characters. This is also where you can do some
Treat each line of text as one caption.
(Text may include an optional tab delimited in and out time code)
Combine text lines to form captions.
o Maximum number of text rows for each caption: 1
o Maximum number of characters for each line of text: 29
o Begin caption with the following sequence of characters: >
o End caption with an end of sentence punctuation: (.?!)
o End caption with the following character: }
o End last row with a comma (,) or semi-colon (;) if applicable.
o Square up text if more than oneline of text in a row.
Default Display Mode Pop-On
Convert UniCode characters such as open quote to straight quote.
Read text as Unicode (UTF-16)