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 To begin using MovCaptioner, the first thing we're going to do is to click the Load Movie button, find the movie on our hard drive, click Open, and we'll be asked to save our project. This is so the automatic save feature can work. Now, before I begin, I'm going to turn the movie down here, or you won't be able to hear me speak. And, I'm going to adjust this Repeat Interval to 3, because I happen to know that there is 3 seconds of music at the beginning of this movie. So, instead of hitting the Play button, I'm going to instead hit the Start button, and all I do is type what I hear. And like I said, there is just music at the beginning so I'm going to put in parentheses "( music )" and I'm going to hit my Return key. That will set the first caption. And you'll notice that the movie went on to the next 3 seconds of the movie, whatever is set in the Repeat Interval. I can adjust this anywhere from 1 to 11. I'm going to set it to 4 now. And if you change that, you're going to have to hit the Start button again. So, I'm going to hit the Start button again, and all I'm going to do is type what I hear.          And I'm just going to go ahead and set all the rest of the captions. Okay, I've gone ahead and set all my captions, as you can see over here on the right. This is a short movie; it's only a minute and 20 seconds long. I can click on any of these and see the captions and you'll see that they're not very evenly spaced. There's only three words on the second line. I can do something about that, though. If I go to edit up here I can type a pipe symbol, it's the key right above your Return key, and you'll have to hold the Shift key down. If you type one of those as a marker for a carriage return, you'll see that it forces a carriage return. We can't use our carriage return (Return key), because we use that to set the captions for the best speed. So, we're going to use the pipe symbol. So, I can go through and I can just visually see about halfway is for each of these, and break up each caption. Now I can type the pipe symbol as I'm typing, but I prefer to have all the text in, and set them afterwards. So, I can go through and set all the line breaks for all these captions to make them a little more readable. And at any point I can preview my captions in QuickTime just by going to the Preview in QuickTime button. It'll launch the QuickTime player and begin playing the movie. And you'll see that the pipe symbol doesn't show up in your final export. Now... at some points I put a blank caption in so that the captions would expire. You'll see it coming up here. Okay, that's a blank caption. Otherwise the last caption would still be up. So, if I'm done previewing I can just close that movie If I need to do more editing, I can, if you happen to be stopped editing at any point, go to the last caption that you set, click on it and then click the Cue Next button, and that will reset everything to the next point where a caption would come in. That's what the Cue Next button is for. Also, when I'm previewing, if I decide I don't like the text, the font, or size, I can go ahead and reset it in the Text Window Properties. Let's say I want yellow text and a blue background. Once I set that, they're not set yet. I have to click this button, and that will change all the captions to those settings, and it'll tell you once you do that. So, let's preview it again real quick and you can see we now have blue background and yellow text and a little bolder font. If you're doing larger DV movies, you might need to set the height of the background where the text is. I can set it anywhere from 20 to 100 pixels. We'll set it to 80 real quick so you'll see what that does. You can see it's a much larger text window. So, that's how you control that. That's really the basics of how to use it. At any point I can delete one of these captions by selecting it and click the Remove Caption button. I can insert a caption by clicking a caption and then clicking the Insert Caption button. That will insert a blank caption right before that caption. I can split one in two if I think the words are too long if they're not fitting, if they're running 3 lines or something, I can select anywhere within a caption and I'll say split caption and you'll see it made it into 2 different captions. Once you're all done setting captions and you're happy with the preview, you have a lot of different options for exporting. You can also import text in paragraph and line form and then you'll get this button Set Timecode. Once you import everything, just click the Set Timecode every time the new caption is spoken in the movie, and it'll automatically time everything for you. Or you can insert a blank caption the same idea as what we see down here to make a caption expire. So, that's how to use MovCaptioner If you have any questions, there's a How To Use MovCaptioner, which you will probably see on the demo that keeps popping up and that will go away once you purchase the product. And you can also email me at support@synchrimedia.com if you have any other questions. Thanks for trying MovCaptioner and good luck with your project.