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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closed captions. Once you have captured the QuickTime file, go to File>Import DVCPRO HD
(DV100) Closed Captions.
Similarly, DVCPRO HD QuickTime files with closed captions captured through the Omneon
Spectrum server are able to be decoded using MacCaption File>Import> DVCPRO HD (DV100)
Closed Captions option.
QuickTime HD files containing the DTV 608/708 closed caption track can also be decoded using
File>Import>QuickTime DTV 608/708 closed captions option.
QuickTime HD compatible Podcast files containing 608 closed caption track for QuickTime can
be decoded using the File>Import>QuickTime/Podcast Closed Captions (.mov, .m4v).
QuickTime HD files captured through the Matrox MXO2 containing 4VANC audio caption data
can be decoded using the File>Import>Matrox 4VANC Closed Captions. When capturing
closed captioned HD video through the HD-SDI input of the MXO2, go to the Mac system
preferences and select the Matrox options to include the closed captions in audio track 8. Once
in Final Cut Pro export a reference QuickTime Movie to the desktop to decode the HD closed
caption data in MacCaption.
Capture Video
(Creating a QT movie)
Connect the FireWire cable to your hard drive and to the DV converter (DV in/out).
Connect the video player outputs to the DV converter's inputs (R, L and Video) and turn on the
DV Converter. Cue your video tape to about 10 seconds before you want to start recording.
Go to File>Capture Video... The MacCaption Capture Window will appear.
Note - If the Capture Window does not appear and you receive an error message, check all of
your connections (FireWire, inputs, outputs, power on the converter and the player).
Click on the Record button at the bottom of the Capture Window. MacCaption will then ask you
to name the file that you are about to create. Name the file, select the location and click save.
Press play on your player and you will see a multi-colored progress wheel spinning.
This means that MacCaption is now capturing the audio and video that you are sending through
the converter. You will also see the video, from your player, in the Capture Window.
You will not be able to hear the audio from your drive, that's OK.
When your video is completed, simply click anywhere in the Capture Window to end the
capture. Then minimize MacCaption and open the movie that you created to check the video and
audio.