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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SO THAT MY NAME IS NOT
COVERED BY CAPTIONS.
Note: If you do not have a Tab character inside the text line, the line would break into multiple
lines according to the choice of Max characters per line.
Time Code In and Text (Must Be Separated by Tab)
Import text files with time code in and text separated by Tab characters.
Here is a short example of the file with time code in and the individual caption separated by a
Tab character. The tab still marks the desired line breaks.
01:03:31:08 NOW I'M AT THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN,
01:03:33:07 SO MY CAPTIONS APPEAR AT THE RIGHT.
01:03:35:13
01:03:36:13 NOW I AM GOING OFF-SCREEN.
After opening the file in the CaptionMaker software, it will look like the following.
01:03:31:08
NOW I'M AT THE
RIGHT OF THE SCREEN,
01:03:33:07
SO MY CAPTIONS
APPEAR AT THE RIGHT.
01:03:35:13
01:03:36:13
NOW I AM GOING OFF-SCREEN.
Time Code In, Out and Text (Must be separated by tab)
You can also import a text file with time code in, time code out and text separated by Tab
characters.
Here is a short example of the file with time code in, out and the individual caption separated by
a Tab character. The Tab character separates lines of caption.
01:03:31:08 01:03:33:05 NOW I'M AT THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN,
01:03:33:07 01:03:35:15 SO MY CAPTIONS APPEAR AT THE RIGHT.
01:03:35:17 01:03:36:11
01:03:36:13 01:03:38:06 NOW I AM GOING OFF-SCREEN.
Caption Center Files (.tds)
You can import/export Caption Center .tds files from File >> Import/Export menu.