User`s guide

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Using International Character Sets with MacCaption
MacCaption supports 16 bit Unicode and can be used with 16 bit International character sets.
To enable International character input on Mac OS X:
1. Go to System Preferences and choose International.
2. Under the Input Menu select all of the International input methods you wish to enable.
3. Select "Show input menu in menu bar" at the bottom of the International dialog box.
To use a file with International Characters, you need to set select it from the flag menu at the top
right side of the monitor screen. Each input method behaves differently.
To use the Japanese input method:
1. Select "Show Character Palette" and "Show Japanese Kana Palette" from the flag menu.
2. In the Character Palette View menu select Japanese.
3. Start MacCaption.
4. Click on the Subtitles button in the Display As selection box.
5. Under the Display/Edit Text Font menu select the Japanese font that ends in "Pro W3".
6. Under the Subtitle/Font menu select the same font.
7. Highlight the uppermost text input box in MacCaption
8. Double click on a Japanese Kanji character in either of the character palettes to enter it
into MacCaption.
Preparing Foreign Language Text
Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Hebrew
1. Open your document (make sure the text ‘reads’ properly)
2. Go to File>Save As
3. Save the file as “Encoded Text (*.txt)
4. Name your .txt file and click ‘Save’
5. A window will appear telling you that: “the formatting will not be saved…Is this OK?”
Click ‘Yes’
Another window will appear asking you to specify the encoding
Select “Unicode (Big-Endian)”
Click ‘OK’
IMPORTANT – When importing this file into MacCaption, check the box next to “Read text as
Unicode (UTF – 16)”.