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 | 
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Choose the dialog tracks
Click OK |
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The tool will start indexing and create the captions |
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To modify all the captions looks and placement follow these steps: Put the timeline indicator on the first caption in the timeline
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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 50 >Double click on the Color Box to get the Select Color dialog |
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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
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Also might want to add an Outline Weight and set that to 300 |
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Next Set Anchor Position >X = 0 >Y = 400 Fixed Width Wrap setting is default but leave it | |
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
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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
Lastly export the captions here is how to do that | |