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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EIA 608 closed captions for MPEG-2 streams can be encoded with 4 channels of alternate
languages these include CC1,CC2, CC3, and CC4 data respectively.
EIA 708 closed captions for MPEG-2 streams can be encoded with 6 channels of alternate
languages these include Service numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6. Because MacCaption has the world’s first
true 708 authoring software engineering it can include text style and opacity options as well as
Unicode Asian language settings in the encoding process.
In order to include multiple alternate languages in your encode please populate programs A
through F in your MacCaption project. These can be assigned to different closed caption
channels in the top menu Caption>Encode Preferences.
MacCaption can currently encode closed captions for the following MPEG formats:
• DVD Closed Captions (*.m2v)
• DVD Style Closed Captions (*.mpg)
• ATSC DTV 608/708 Closed Captions (*.mpg)
• CCube/LSI DVx 608 Linear Closed Captions (*.mpg)
• CCube/LSI DVx 608 Temporal Closed Captions (*.mpg)
• Sigma MPEG-2 line-21 720x512 (*.mpg)
MPEG-2 Video Codecs
If you do not have a good Mpeg codec on your computer, you may consider Main Concept
MPEG codec. The codec works well for MacCaption. You may get this codec from
www.mainconcept.com/products.shtml
.
HD Tapes
Panasonic DVCPRO HD
Captions can be added to DVCPRO HD QuickTime files. You need to use FireWire to send the
captioned video to a compatible VTR such as a Panasonic AJ-HD1400. This FireWire operation
must be done from MacCaption, and does not work with Final Cut Pro Studio 2. In addition,
MacCaption can capture DVCPRO HD video content from FireWire and decode the caption data
from it.
DVCPRO HD video content can contain both 608 and 708 caption data and so the process for
encoding closed captions to DVCPRO HD should be set for both 608/708. To ensure that the
encoding includes both 608/708 go to top menu Caption>Encode Preferences and enable both
608 and 708 options for encoding to DTV.