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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Save the new Captioned MXF on your desktop, and when prompted select the original MXF.
Once the new MXF with captions is generated the user can simply drag and drop into the
mounted professional disc using the OS X finder. Make sure that the file is placed in the clips
folder inside the professional disc.
The Sony VTR XDCAM HD 1500 must be set up with specific settings in order to support
closed caption data in MXF files. Also, MXF files that are 1080 HD cannot be added to a disc
that already contains 720P HD video and vice versa.
To write a file to the PDW-HD1500, you must write the high res MXF file to the Clip folder.
You also need to make sure of the following:
You must set the XDCAM machine's REC FORMAT menu (item 31) to match the file you are writing
(ie 1080 / 59.94i, 720 / 59.94p, etc).
The deck's red REC INHIBIT light is off
Currently, you cannot mix the following MXF file types on the same disc:
A. Cannot mix 1080i and 720p MXF files
i.e. Writing 720 / 59.94p MXF file to disc with 1080i clips on it
B. Mixing files of different system frequencies (frame rates)
i.e. Writing 1080 / 50i MXF file to disc with 1080 / 59.94i clips on it
Notes:
1. The following frame rates are "related" and can be mixed together on the same disc:
A. 29.97p / 59.94p / 59.94i
B. 25p / 50p / 50i
2. You do not have to format a disc to use a certain MXF file type. The first MXF file copied to the
Clip folder determines the "disc type" (i.e. is it a 1080i/720 disc, etc). So if you erase all of the
files in the Clip folder, you can copy anything to the disc
The FTP daemon of the PDW-HD1500 will give you better information about why it won't allow the file to be
written (especially if it is a simple configuration problem).
Within the deck inputs and output menus the following settings should be set:
652 and 653 (UMID SD and HD VANC Lines) - They should be set to 17H
658 and 659 (EMK SD and HD VANC Lines) - They should be set to 17H
Alternately, XDCAM HD content can be closed captioned within Final Cut Pro using the Matrox
MXO2 board and the Matrox 4VANC audio file that MacCaption can generate and export for the
Final Cut Pro timeline. For more information about the MXO2 and closed captions go to
www.cpcweb.com/mxo2.