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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13. Select “Embed in SDI Line 21 (SD) if you are printing to an SDI compatible VTR (such
as Digital Betacam or DVCPRO50 deck).
14. Select “Embed in analog Line 21 (SD) if you are printing to an analog compatible VTR
(such as Betacam SP, Umatic, or SVHS deck) via composite, component, or S-Video.
15. Close the Matrox System Preferences and go back to Final Cut Pro.
16. Print to tape with closed captions. (no rendering required)
The sequence timeline in Final Cut Pro can be in either SD (720x486 or 720x480) or HD (720P,
1080i, or 1080p). The Matrox MXO2 will support closed caption data for any codec or
resolution that is compatible with Final Cut Pro and the Matrox MXO2. Some of these include:
DV25, DV50, DVCPRO HD, ProRes, XDCAM HD, Uncompressed 8bit and 10bit.
Furthermore, changes can be made to the video on the timeline such as color correction and
graphic lower third additions without affecting or deleting the 4VANC captions.
Upconverting and Downconverting video with closed captions using the MXO2
The Matrox MXO2 can upconvert and downconvert closed captions from SD to HD and vice
versa along with the video. For example, If there is a 1080i video clip on the Final Cut Pro
timeline It can be output to HD-SDI with VANC closed captions, or the video output can be set
from the Matrox MXO2 to downconvert the video signal to SD 720x486 with Line-21 closed
captions without any rendering. The Matrox MXO2 can output to HD-SDI and its SD analog
outputs (composite, component, S-Video) simultaneously with closed captions. The MXO2 HD-
SDI outputs will carry the 1080i signal with VANC closed captions, while the analog outputs
will carry the line-21 respectively. Although the Matrox MXO2 has two SDI outputs that can
both be set to output HD-SDI or standard definition SDI, they cannot be set to output
independent formats. The MXO2 user must choose to output either HD-SDI or standard
definition SDI from both outputs. However, HD-SDI can be output simultaneously with SD
analog using the settings seen below: