MacCaption is a tool that encodes captions onto video without going down a generation.

MacCaption requires a fully prepared, time coded caption file from another source, such as the CaptionMaker (Windows) or MacCaption (Macintosh), Cheetah (*.asc) among others.

With MacCaption you can easily enhance your video by adding a close caption.

Here are some key features of "MacCaption":

Closed-captioning features:
· Pop-on, Paint-on and Roll-up mode closed-caption encoding
· Italic, Underline, and Flash character attribute support
· Multi-color character support
· Drag and Drop closed caption decoding (MacCaption only)
· Input description files can be taken from a CPC CaptionMaker file
· Works with G3/G4 Mac computers as well as Avid, Media 100, TARGA

MPEG closed captioning and subtitling features (MacCaption only):
· Drag and drop closed caption decoding
· Direct insertion of closed captions into MPEG-2 video assets
· Automatic creation of subtitles for Spruce and DVD Studio Pro authoring systems

Real time features (MacCaption only):
· Real time closed caption decoding
· Real time display of DV video with closed captions using FireWire
· DV input and output over FireWire

QuickTime captioning features:
· Ability to select font type and size
· User control over caption placement
· Automatic caption insertion into QuickTime Text Track
· Input description files can be taken from a CPC CaptionMaker file

RealVideo captioning features:
· Automatic generation of RealText ".rt" description files
· Display times calculated from time codes in CCaption/MacCaption description file
· Input description files can be taken from a CPC CaptionMaker file

DVD closed captioning features:
· Automatic generation of .cc and .scc closed caption description files
· Compatibility with many DVD authoring systems
· Input description files can be taken from a CPC CaptionMaker file

Open-captioning features:
· Ability to generate single or multiple frame captions
· Ease of caption generation from a CCaption/MacCaption description file
· Input description files can be taken from a CPC CaptionMaker file

Enhanced TV support (CCaption only):
· Support for Advanced Television Enhancement Forum Transport A Triggers
· Creation of URL, LID, Type, Name, Expires, Script and View fields
· Allows for arbitrary user data input

V-Chip features (CCaption only):
· Support for the Television Parental Guidelines rating system
· Support for the Motion Picture Association of America rating system
· Support for Canadian English Language and French Language rating systems
· Program Name support

Advantages to using CCaption and MacCaption:
· A cost-effective solution which uses existing hardware, CCaption-NLE and MacCaption-NLE/Mpeg or no hardware, CCaption-DV and MacCaption-DV
· The ability to easily insert open and closed captioning into video programming and streaming media
· In-house control of caption text content and text placement
· Cost effective compliance with government regulations regarding captioning
· Rapid turnaround when modifying a previously captioned production.

Requirements:

· QuickTime 7 or later

Limitations:

· Can work with only 20 to 30 captions.
· Can not save the file.
· Random characters are replaced by question marks in AutoSync or Export modes.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed Find and Replace to accept Unicode characters.
· Added Import > YouTube .srt.
· Added Live > Text Output and Live > vBrick.