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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3. In the Closed Captioning setting of the Print to Video dialog box, select the QuickTime
movie with the 608 track that you exported in Step 7 above.
Kona SD workflow
1. MacCaption Export > Podcast/Web/QuickTime 608 > QuickTime 608 Closed Captions
(FCP/Podcast/Web).
2. To output via AJA TV: simply open this movie file in AJA TV and play it out through
your Kona card. (Make sure your Display setting is set to AJA Kona 525i29.97)
3. To output via FCP: select your original time line and make sure your View > Video
Playback is set to AJA Kona 525i29.97, then go to the Print to Video menu.
4. In the Closed Captioning setting of the Print to Video dialog box, select the QuickTime
movie with the 608 track that you exported in Step 7 above.
Add Subtitles to Digital Videos
DV
Digital Video format / DV format is video that is transferred in and out of the computer via a
FireWire (IEEE 1394) interface.
Use the Video With Subtitles, go to File > Export menu to add subtitles to video stored in DV
format (.dv). When processing Digital Video, MacCaption puts subtitles into a copy of the
currently open movie. (Only available if you purchased the subtitle option).
After you export the subtitles to the movie, the Print to Video option under the File menu can be
used to write the movie to a videocassette recorder (VHS, Beta SP, MiniDV, DVCAM, or
DVCPRO) with a DV Converter connected with a FireWire cable. Connect the outputs from the
converter to the inputs of your video recorder.
Go to File > Print to Video and open the movie that you created with MacCaption. Connect the
outputs from your recorder to a TV monitor so you can watch exactly what you are recording.
Play the movie to test your connection to your recorder. Once you have established the
connection (i.e. - you can hear and see the movie through the monitor), cue the movie at the
beginning of the movie. Press record on your recorder and then start playing the movie. When
you play back the video from the DV VCR, the VCR converts the digital video signal to an
analog video signal and puts the embedded subtitles onto the analog video signal.
Digital Video consists of video that is formatted with the DV codec and consists of video that is
720 pixels across by 480 lines high.