AVID - Transcript Tool - How to add captions or subtitles to a timeline

To add captions or subtitles to a timeline load timeline into the timeline window >Right click one of the audio tracks and choose >Transcript>Create SubCap
Choose the dialog tracks Click OK
The tool will start indexing and create the captions
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 All the following settings are optional choose what you think looks good
Under Text Appearance >Choose Arial as the Font >Font Size choose 60-80 >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 > No Shadow >Center Align
Next set Box Appearance Turn Opacity to 0 Anchor to Bottom of Text Anchor Center
Also might want to add an Outline Weight and set that to 300 range
Next Set Anchor Position >X = 0 >Y = 400 Fixed Width Wrap setting is default but choose >Each Row as Wide as Widest
Choose Edit Global Properties
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
Change to something like this
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
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 Option to export the captions as an .srt or an .stl here is a wiki link on how to do that AVID - Captions - How to Export Out of SubCap Tool
To burn in the captions on the export Select all the tracks in the timeline including the top most track (subcap) track
Export as normal File>Output>Export to File
Choose >Options
For export as choose >MXF OP1a >Use Marks and selected tracks >Stereo out most common or 5.1 if you have surround sound
Choose a name and where to save the file >Click Save The resulting file will be an .mxf that can be played with VLC QuickTime Player will not open it.