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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Font Size: 14
Style: Default
Justification: Center
White Font on Black background
If the style is set to Default each caption text's style is taken from the style of the caption itself
instead of from the style pull down menu. If the justification is set to Default the justification of
each caption is taken from the position of the caption text itself instead of from the justification
pull down menu.
The default settings are as follows:
Horizontal size: 720
Vertical size: 160
Offset from left: 0
Offset from top: 480
Adjust the size and/or location of the text box and click Apply
When you are finished adjusting the text placement click Done
Open the exported smi file in QuickTime Player and play the movie while viewing the caption
text.
The following is an example of a ".txt" file generated by MacCaption.
{QTText}{font: Arial}{size: 24}{plain}{justify: center}
{textcolor: 65535, 65535, 65535}{backcolor: 0, 0, 0}
{timescale: 100}{width: 720}{height: 160}
[00:00:00.00]
[music][music]
[00:00:07.40]
I'M AT THE LEFT
OF THE SCREEN.
[00:00:09.17]
SO CAPTIONS
OF WHAT I SAY
[00:00:10.50]
APPEAR AT THE LEFT
OF THE SCREEN, TOO.
When you open the.smi file with QuickTime Player the text will display when your QuickTime
movie plays.
Sample examples are available on the MacCaption distribution CD.
Real Video
MacCaption produces text captions for RealVideo directly from the captions in the Caption Text
Area. Choose the RealText File option in the File Export Menu to export captions for RealText.