| New | Create a new MAGpie project. |
| Open | Open an existing MAGpie project. |
| Save | Save changes in MAGpie project. |
| Save as | Save a MAGpie project under a new name. |
| Properties | View MAGpie project properties, including formatting options for captions and caption segments and identification of base media resource. |
| Exit | Quit MAGpie. |
| Create new track | Create a new caption or audio description track. |
| Import track | Import a new caption track from text, RealText, QuickTime Text, or SAMI, or import text to be used for the transcript in a new audio description track. |
| Delete current track | Remove a caption or audio description track. |
| Track properties | Modify the name or language of a track. |
| Copy timecodes | Copy timings from one MAGpie track to another. |
| Select track (by name) | Select the name of a existing track to edit a different track. |
| Copy/cut/paste | Text manipulation options within the caption and audio description editing grids. |
| Find/replace | Locate and replace text within the caption and audio description grids. |
| Check spelling | Correct spelling errors in the current track. |
| Insert Music Note | Insert a musical note (♪) at the current cursor position. Musical notes are only supported on export to SAMI and DFXP. |
| Bold/italic/underline | Format text in individual captions. |
| Align left/center/right | Align caption text. |
| Red/Green/Blue/Black | Common foreground text colors for captions. |
| Set start time | Set caption start time from media player timeline. |
| Set end time | set caption end time from media player. |
| Unset caption time | Remove caption start time for selected row. |
| Go to caption time in media | Synchronize media player to selected caption start time. |
| Find caption from media time | Locate caption with start time that matches the current media player time. |
| Inset new row below selected row | Create a new caption row. |
| Delete selected rows from table | Removes one or more contiguous rows. |
| Move selected row up | Move one caption one row up in the grid. |
| Move selected row down | Move one caption one row down in the grid. |
| Comment/uncomment selected captions | Temporarily exclude caption rows from caption timing and exports. |
| Insert captions from file | Insert captions from a plain text document. |
| Segment Manually | Open segmentation panel and create caption segments at selected points in a caption. |
| Segment by sentence | Open segmentation panel with each sentence in its own segment. |
| Segment by line | Open segmentation panel with each caption line in its own segment. |
| Segment by word | Open segmentation panel with each word of the caption in its own segment. |
| Discard segments | Remove segments for a single caption. |
| Set start time from media player | Set audio description start time from media player timeline. |
| Set media end time from player | Set audio description end time from media player timeline. |
| Go to media time in player | Synchronize player with start time from selected audio description row. |
| Unset media start time | Remove start time from selected audio description row. |
| Unset media end time | Remove end time from selected audio description row. |
| Record audio description | Record audio description and insert the filename into audio resource column of selected row. |
| Select Audio file | Choose an audio resource and insert the filename into audio resource column of selected row. |
| Set audio start time from audio player | When using an audio resource that is longer than needed for a specific audio description, set the start time within the audio resource. This is equivalent to the clipBegin (clip-begin) attribute value in SMIL. |
| Set audio end time from audio player | Set the end time for an audio description within a longer audio resource. |
| Go to audio start time in audio player | Synchronize audio player time with audio description row. |
| Unset audio start time | Remove value from audio start column for current row. |
| Unset audio end time | Remove value from audio end column for current row. |
| Insert audio transcriptions from file | Insert audio description transcript from plain text file. |
| Insert new row below selected row | Create new audio description row. |
| Delete selected row(s) from table | Remove audio description rows from the table. |
| Move selected row up | Move one audio description one row up in the table. |
| Move selected row down | Move one audio description one row down in the table. |
| Plain text | Export a text file, with or without timecodes and commented entries. |
| QuickTime - SMIL 1.0 format | Export files for all tracks for QuickTime. |
| Real - SMIL 1.0 format | Export files for all tracks for RealPlayer. |
| Windows Media Player - SAMI format | Exports a SAMI file for Windows Media captions. |
| Adobe Flash - W3C DFXP | Exports a DFXP file for Adobe Flash via supported components and players (e.g. NCAM's "CC for Flash" component and ccPlayer). |
| Play | Start playback of media player. |
| Pause | Pause playback of media player. |
| Reverse | Play media in reverse. |
| Step forward | Move media player timeline ahead one increment. |
| Step backward | Move media player timeline back one increment. |
| Fast forward | Play media quickly. |
| Fast backward | Player media quickly in reverse. |
| Slow forward | Play media slowly. |
| Slow backward | Play media slowly in reverse. |
| Show player | Make player window visible. |
| Hide player | Remove media player window from screen - useful when captioning an audio-only file. |
| Player window on top | Check the box on this menu item to place the media player in front of the main window. |
| Export changes on playback | When captioning very long files (more than 20 minutes), uncheck this option while captioning. This prevents delays from the frequent rewriting of the MAGpie project file. To see changes made to the captioning grid in the media player window, select 'Export changes now' or turn this feature on again. |
| Export changes now | Forces an update of the MAGpie project file. See 'Export changes on playback', above. |
| Play or pause | Plays or pauses the media player. |
| Stop playback | Stops the media player. |
| Set start time from media player | Sets the caption or audio description start time from the media player timeline. |
| Set end time from media player | sets the caption or audio description end time from the media player timeline. |
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