C. Time captions or subtitles
After transcribing and formatting text, you must assign each caption or
subtitle a specific time to appear on the screen.
C1. Position the cursor anywhere in the first row of the editing grid.
C2. Press <F6> to play the media.
C3. When it is time for the first caption or subtitle to appear, press <F9>.
MAGpie will automatically read the timecode, insert it into the first Timecode
cell and move the cursor to the next row in the editing grid. With the media
still playing, press <F9> again when it is time for the next block of text to
appear. Generally, you can anticipate the timing of the next caption or
subtitle by pressing <F9> when the last word of the current caption or subtitle is
being spoken.
C4. If there is a long pause in the audio (say, more than one or two
seconds), press <F10> to insert a blank caption row and timecode which will erase the
text display. Press <F9> again when it is time for the next caption or subtitle
to appear.
C5. If you make a mistake in timing, press <F5> to pause the media. Move the
cursor to the appropriate cell, move the media back to the corresponding point
in the timeline, press <F6> to start playing the media and press <F9> to
retime the text. You can automatically synchronize the player to any point in the
stream file by pressing <F4> or by choosing PLAYER, Sync Player to Stream.
Conversely, you can synchronize the caption stream to the media position by
pressing <Shift+F4>, or choose PLAYER, Sync Stream to Player. In either case, press
<F6> again to start the player.
Since the timecode also appears visually at the bottom of the media window,
you can also make timecode adjustments by hand. Simply delete the appropriate
numbers and type in the new ones. Be sure to follow the timing convention
HH:MM:SS.FF (hours:minutes:seconds.frames), paying attention to the use of two colons
and one period in the timecode notation.
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