AVID - How to Import Captioning Text and Use the Subcap Tool

Make .mxf exports of the reels or sequences using this wiki

AVID - How to export a timeline as a MXF OP1a .mxf file

Send files off to get captioned to 

https://wikis.utexas.edu/pages/resumedraft.action?draftId=390797783&draftShareId=202c2311-fce4-4942-807e-95229f82dc5c&

FOR use in AVID Media Composer REQUEST A .stl file

Once the request is full-filled you will get an .stl file

Or if you do not get an .stl file you can convert it to .stl using this wiki

How to convert a .srt to a .stl file that will import in AVID Media Composer as Closed or Open Captions

Open your project in AVID and make sequences for the reels and or

Duplicate your timeline that you already exported and load the timeline

by double clicking it to load

Then right click in the record side of the composer window.

Choose Sequence Report.

Make a new video track

>Timeline>New>Video Track

Go into "Effects" mode by clicking on the left hand tabs and choose "Effects"

The Filters tab will open on the left hand side of the interface

>Choose Generator>Subcap and drag the effect down to the new

video track

The SubCap Effect parameters

Choose >Caption Files and expand the choices 

the sub menu will have "Import Caption Data. . .

Click that and navigate to where you saved the caption file

In our case we saved it to "desktop"

Then choose Open

To modify all the captions looks and placement follow these steps:

Put the timeline indicator on the first caption in the timeline

When you place the timeline indicator on the timeline you can then select the "effect editor"

That will load the caption effect parameters

Under Text Appearance

>Choose Arial as the Font

>Font Size choose 100

>Double click on the Color Box to get the Select Color dialog

Choose the light yellow as shown here (optional) you can leave the captions white

Then click OK

Choose > Basic Shadow

>Center Align

Next set Box Appearance

Turn Opacity to 0

Anchor to Bottom of Text

Anchor Center

Next Set Anchor Position

>X = 0

>Y = 400

Fixed Width Wrap setting is default but leave it

Then choose the Synchronize tab and on the >Sequence column select all the dots that apply to all the parameters that were changed on the clip and apply to the Sequence - Use the slider to navigate down the list.

Then once every parameter that you changed on the clip is applied to the Sequence click OK

The caption style will be applied to the entire timeline now

The next step is to watch the timeline and edit the captions so they are accurate and make any modifications to characters like music notes or parenthesis that look like this example - music notes are displayed as boxes we need to fix this

To modify the text click on Caption Text and modify here

The music notes show up in the text but they do not display correctly

Displayed like this is better

Go through the entire timeline and fix the captions

The captions become master clips that you can move on the timeline just like any other video clip in AVID

This next part is optional but useful to know

Then go to Stylesheets tab

Then to apply to other timelines in the same project apply captions to the timeline

Choose Edit Global Properties

You will see the Style Sheet that was saved

Click Apply to apply it to the timeline

Then choose the Synchronize tab and on the >Sequence column select all the dots that apply to all the parameters that were changed on the clip and apply to the Sequence - Use the slider to navigate down the list.

Then once every parameter that you changed on the clip is applied to the Sequence click OK

Now the caption style is applied to the new timeline