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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Google guidelines for videos accepted: Goggle accepts AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real, and
Windows Media. If your video file is over 100 MB, please use the desktop uploader.
Create an *.SRT (Subrip)
From MacCaption, use the Export >> Webcast >> Google (*.srt) option to create an .srt file like
below.
0:01:23.000,0:01:25.000
Text shown at 1 minute 23 seconds into the video, for 2 seconds
0:02:20.250,0:02:23.8
Text shown at 2 min 20.25 sec, until 2 min 23.8 sec
0:03:14.159
Text shown at 3 min 14.159 sec for an undefined length of time.
Upload subtitles on Google video event viewer page
https://upload.video.google.com/Status
It is not necessary to do an upload of the UTF-8 file. You may also cut and paste the text into a
window if the upload feature is not working. Please allow Google a few minutes to format the txt
for flash CC and also to compress your video to Flash.
For more detailed information directly from Google please click on the link below:
http://video.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=26577
Sample of Google video with captions
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5827384524886853570
QuickTime Text Track
MacCaption produces QuickTime text track captions directly from the text in the Caption Text
Area. Choose File > Export > Movie with Text Track to export a QuickTime movie containing
a text track. The exported movie is a movie that consists of the text track itself and pointers back
to the original movie's video and audio tracks. To make this movie totally self contained use
QuickTime Pro's Save As feature and save the movie as a Self-contained movie.
Re-sizing Video and Text Track
Choose the desired Font type from Display > Font before starting the following steps.
File > Export > Movie with Text Track
Name file and click Save