D. Review captions or subtitles

After formatting and timing the text, you can review the captions or subtitles along with the media file from within MAGpie, making corrections to text and timing as necessary.

D1. Position the cursor anywhere in the first row of the editing grid, then press <F6>. MAGpie will automatically play the media and display captions or subtitles at the appropriate intervals.

D2. To make corrections or changes to the caption text, press <F5> to pause the media, make the changes in the editor, press <F4> to synchronize the player to the corresponding point in the stream and press <F6> to play the media with the corrected text. If you need to make changes to the timecode, you can either press <F9> at the appropriate time while the media is rolling, or you can pause the media by pressing <F5> and then press <F9> to insert the new timecode. If you want to type in timecode corrections by hand, see Section I Part C .

By default, MAGpie will display any existing captions or subtitles when you play the media. If you find it confusing to see the captions or subtitles playing while you are retiming them, you can temporarily toggle them off by choosing PLAYER, Show Captions, or by unchecking the Captions box at the top of the player window. Be sure to recheck the Captions box or choose PLAYER, Show Captions again to display the captions or subtitles after you are finished retiming.

D3. If your project contains multiple streams, you can review each one in turn by first selecting the appropriate stream and then repeating steps D1 and D2.

Note: When you press F6 to play the media and display your captions or subtitles, MAGpie will automatically check the timing of the stream to make sure the timecodes are sequential. If it finds timing errors, it will flag them for you. You must fix the errors before you can display the text. If you do not assign a timecode to a particular block of text, MAGpie will just ignore that caption or subtitle and not display it when you are playing the media file.

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