Captions made on a Mac

The following images illustrate what captions will look like when they are made on a Mac in one of three sizes, and displayed in three different viewing environments.

Caption height set to 60 pixels.
Caption height set to 75 pixels.
Caption height set using 'Best Fit'.

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Caption height set to 60 pixels

Displayed on a Mac
3 line caption displays with no extra space

Displayed on a Windows machine with small fonts (Windows default)
caption too large for space, 2.5 lines shown

Displayed on a Windows machine with large fonts
caption too large for space, only 2 lines shown

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Caption height set to 75 pixels

Displayed on a Mac
3 line caption displayed, with room for 1 more line

Displayed on a Windows machine with small fonts (Windows default)
3 line caption displayed, with .5 lines of extra space

Displayed on a Windows machine with large fonts
3 caption lines displayed, but large font size creates a 4th line

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Caption height set using 'Best Fit'

In these examples, QuickTime set the 'Best Fit' height at 48 pixels.

Displayed on a Mac
3 line caption displays ith no extra space

Displayed on a Windows machine with small fonts (Windows default)
caption too large for space, 2.5 lines shown

Displayed on a Windows machine with large fonts
caption too large for space, only 2 lines shown

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