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 exporting Transcripts compiles all the captions into one concise text file, with or without timecode. 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, QT Text, and SUB to convert to other supported formats.
Now that Final Cut Pro 7 can import SCC files, creating Line 21 captions just got easier as well. Just import the SCC file MovCaptioner creates into Final Cut Pro when printing to tape and you're done!
Alert to Snow Leopard users! QuickTime X, the default QuickTime Player that is installed with Snow Leopard is not fully functional and will not work with MovCaptioner. Instead, use the QuickTime 7 installer that comes with the Snow Leopard install disk. It will install QuickTime Player 7 in your Applications/Utilities folder where MovCaptioner should be able to find it.
Requirements:
MacIntosh OSX only (sorry, no Windows yet)
QuickTime Pro 7.0 or higher required for embedding caption tracks (not required for creating transcripts, SMIL, or Flash XML files, etc.)
Flip4Mac plugin (free) required for loading Windows Media movies to create SAMI captions
Perian plugin (free) for QT required for loading FLV movies
Make closed captioned movies for YouTube, iPhones, iPods, DVDs, and Broadcasting!
What's new in this version:
Fixed a bug that caused MovCaptioner to crash if it was not installed properly. It will now
create a Temp folder (for Undo/Redo/Revert) in whichever folder the application is
installed. It is still highly recommended that it be installed in its own folder in the
Applications folder, however.
You can now select which row you want SCC captions to start on. Default is row 15. A
pulldown menu in the Text Properties area allows you to select the row, then click the
Change button next to it to change the selected caption's starting row.
Under the Edit menu, you can use Change All SCC Rows To Current Selection to move
all SCC rows at once.
SCC caption export will automatically find and replace characters such as smart quotes,
apostrophes, ellipses, and em-dashes that can cause errors in SCC exports.
New option under Export menu allows you to export only the SCC file without importing
it into QuickTime. It is still recommended to use the Sonic Scenarist (SCC) option to check
timing and adjust with Shift All Start Times option under the Edit menu.
Split Caption button now recognizes when timecode has been changed to 1 HR start time.
