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MovCaptioner keeps repeating a segment of the movie until you are done typing what you hear. Just hit the Return key and it will save your caption and automatically advance to the next few seconds of the movie, allowing you to zip through your captioning tasks in no time flat.

You don't need to be a QuickTime guru, either. The caption track is added automatically with the click of a button. And clicking the Transcript button compiles all the captions into one concise text file. If you can type, you can make your movies and YouTube videos accessible!

Already have transcripts and just need to add them as captions to your movies? MovCaptioner will allow you to import the text as captions, making the job a snap! It will also import other caption formats such as SCC, STL, XML, SRT, and SUB to convert to other supported formats./p>

Creates:

bullet Embedded QuickTime Caption Tracks
bullet YouTube Captions
    (SubRip SRT and SubViewer SUB)
bullet SMIL Captions
bullet Flash XML Captions
bullet JW Player Captions
bullet Common Look and Feel (CLF) Captions
bullet Spruce STL
    (imports into DVD Studio Pro)
bullet Adobe Encore Captions
bullet SAMI Captions
    (for use with Windows Media)
bullet Transcripts in Paragraph Form or
    Line-by-line With Timestamps

What's new in this version

Version 2.5.5

  • Added Reset Current Caption(s) button for ease of changing captions' text properties
  • Can now use Ctrl+Left Arrow and Ctrl+Right Arrow to adjust the Repeat Interval on the fly while creating captions.
  • Fixed a bug with SCC import
  • As always, free upgrade for previous purchasers
New in recent versions
  • Preview (SMIL) and embedded captions should now work with German, French, Dutch, Polish, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, and Chinese system languages.
  • Added a time shift capability under the edit window that makes it possible to adjust all start times for captions in a project. This was necessary to make imported SCC files export to other formats more accurately.
  • Can change all imported 1 hour-based timecode (first caption starts at 1 hour instead of 00) to 00 hour-based timecode.
  • Can now use Ctrl+Spacebar to start and stop movie.
  • Can now use Ctrl+O to toggle Overlap button
  • Added support for JW Player
  • Now has Find/Replace feature
  • Can import Sonic Scenarist (SCC) caption files
  • Can now create translucent backgrounds for text over the lower portion of the movie for embedded QuickTime captions. See sample -->
  • Split To Next Caption button sends all text after the cursor to the next caption
  • Can now Undo many changes (except for Split To Next Caption button - haven't worked this out yet.)
  • Can now import text in 13 different encodings to better support special characters
  • Importing text in paragraph form now breaks captions at spaces instead of within words
  • Text Track Location settings now part of Preferences window and can be saved
  • Can now output timecode in NTSC (30 FPS) or PAL (25 FPS) for STL and Encore exports

 spacer Create Closed Captions for your YouTube videos!
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Translation: Français (not yet updated)

The video below was captioned using MovCaptioner and exported as
SubRip SRT for YouTube's new captioning capability. The SRT file is simply uploaded with your YouTube video and closed captions are created automatically.



Embedded QuickTime captions can now be displayed over translucent background that allows the video to show through. Great for creating open captions for iPods movies.

Requirements:

  • MacIntosh OSX only (sorry, no Windows yet, but working on it)
  • QuickTime Pro 7.0 or higher required for embedding caption tracks (not required for creating transcripts, SMIL, or Flash XML files, etc.)
  • Adobe Flash CS3 required for creating Flash movies that use XML captions
  • Flip4Mac plugin (free) required for loading Windows Media movies to create SAMI captions
  • Perian plugin (free) for QT required for loading FLV movies

"How can I make my captioned movies play
on an iPod Video?"

iPod Videos do not support text tracks per se. However, there is an easy work-around. First check the "Translucent background" box to maintain the movie's aspect ratio while showing the captions over a translucent background that allows the video to show through. Then click the Embed Captions button in MovCaptioner to add the captions. Once your captions are in place you have one more step to do. Go to the File menu in QuickTime Pro and choose "Export..." From there choose the "Movie to MPEG-4" option. What this will do is to combine the video track with the caption track so it will play on the iPod and not get stripped off. It will also save your movie as a ".mp4" file which is perfect for iPod Videos.

I am working on support for SCC format closed captions, which are supported by iPods and iPhones. Hopefully this will be available in the next month or so.

View a sample transcript in paragraph form

View a sample transcript in timestamp form


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