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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• Then under Skin choose any skin that begins with the word Captioned
• If you want your captions to appear over your video, choose a skin that contains the word
External. If you want your captions to appear below the video, choose a skin that
contains the word Over. In either case you can choose to auto-hide the video control
panel by setting the Parameter skinAutoHide to true.
• After that you can go to Control >> Test Movie to see a sample of what your video will
look like.
• Press the CC button to turn your captions on or off
• Once you are ready to create the final files go to File >> Publish Settings to confirm the
names and types of files you want to export
• Then go to File >> Publish to actually create them
Playing your finished captioned flash videos
• Make sure all 4 of the following files are in the same folder:
1. The .flv video
2. The .swf file for your video
3. The .html file (for those who exported .html)
4. The .swf file you chose as your skin
• Then just double click the .swf file to bring up a player in flash, or double click the .html
to bring up the flash player inside your web browser (IExplorer, Firefox, Safari, etc)
Note
It is extremely important to remember that when you are building your project in Macromedia
Flash that you do not include the entire path to your .flv in the Content Path section of the
Parameters tab. Doing so will make the video work perfectly fine on your computer, but it will
not work for anyone else.
Sample Flash video with captions:
http://www.cpcweb.com/Webcasting/Webcast_Samples/All/Flash_CPC_Demo_Video.html
YouTube/Google Video
This feature provides a direct workflow to export a .srt file for Google video.
Register with Google Video
Register with Google video at http://video.google.com. Once you register, your username will be
your current e-mail address. The e-mail address is not necessarily a gmail.com address.
You will be sent a confirmation email once you finish registering. Please confirm through this e-
mail before you upload any video.
Compress video file for Google Video Upload