User`s manual

Updates since version 2.25 9

Captioning Related

Insert Music Symbol

You can insert a single music symbol or a pair of music symbols surrounding a line of text.

To insert a single music symbol at the cursor location,

1. press Ctrl+M or,

2. click on Attribute → Insert Music Symbol(s) → Single Music Symbol or,

3. click on the

icon from the Misc. Control panel inside the preview window area.

To insert two music symbols to surround a single line or a multiple lines of text, highlight the

area and then

1. click on Attribute → Insert Music Symbol(s) → Surrounding Music Symbols or,

2. click on the

icon from the Misc. Control panel inside the preview window area.

The CaptionMaker shows the music symbol in the Preview Window but not in the Work

Area. We use the section mark (§) to represent the music symbol. When this character is sent

to the caption device it produces the music symbol.

Reformat Caption(s) to Roll-Up

A new item was added to the “Format” menu: “Reformat Caption(s) to Roll-Up”. This

converts all selected pop-on and paint-on captions to roll-up captions (existing pop-on

captions are not touched). Multiple row captions (including multiple pop-on captions with

the same start time) are broken into separate roll up captions (one line per roll-up caption),

and the “fill in time codes” function is automatically performed as needed.

Caption Retrieval using Adrienne PCI/USB TC/L21 Readers

Implemented the capability to read time code and retrieve captions simultaneously from the

Adrienne PCI/USB readers. Note that only the Adrienne model PCI-L21 series cards and

USB-21VL/RDR has the caption retrieval capability. If your Adrienne USB reader is a

different model, CaptionMaker will still read time code from it properly, but caption retrieval

will not work.

Virtual Encoder Device

Added a new caption encoder device, called “Virtual Encoder”, which functions as if a

“standard” caption encoder device were connected to the system, but it never opens any ports

(serial or LAN) and therefore never causes any device communication errors.