Synching and Publishing in MAGpie
The previous page introduced captioning
and segmenting captions using Media Access Generator (MAGpie).
Note: MAGpie only works
after downloading in a specific order. Please refer to the MAGpie website
for detailed documentation on
Installing
MAGPIE 
This page discusses some techniques specific to synching
and publishing using MAGpie including:
After you have loaded the video file and created the
captions, you need to synch the two together.
To synch the captions:
- In the 'MAGpie Captionator Window', start with the first row by selecting the number 1 under
the row column.
Note: When a row is selected, it is highlighted in a different
color (purple) than the other rows (cream) (see
Image
32)
.
- Start the video by selecting the 'Play' button from the playback toolbar.
Note: It is a good idea to have one hand on the mouse to start the playback
and another on the F9 button, because it is possible that the captioning
begins at the very beginning of the video.
- Select F9 at the beginning of where each caption is spoken; this inserts the synchronization marks (time)
into the tracks (see Image
33 ).
Note: Try to get the
synch timings as close as possible but do not worry if they are not
exact; you can edit the synching later.
- Once you have finished inserting the synchronization
marks, you can view the playback by selecting the play button.
- Select the stop button.
- Remove the time from the Start Time column for that row that needs editing by two options:
- Selecting and editing the Start Time cell for that row.
- Or, right-clicking on that column and selecting the "Unset Caption Time" option.
- Use the slider to back up the video a little.
- Select the play button and press F9 again.
Note: The "End Time" column is not used as often as the "Start Time" column, but is useful when captioning needs to be removed from the
screen. For example, when there are long periods of silence between captions.
The End Time of a caption should be greater than the start time of that
caption, but less than the Start Time of the next caption.
While the video is stopped, there are several options available to edit
an individual row.
- Select the stop button.
- Right-click on a row to be edited; a drop down menu will appear with
a list of options (see Image
34).
- Choose one of the following options from the drop down menu.
- Set start time from media player: Change the starting time for this
row to be that of the current position of the slider. You can see the
exact time in the label next to the slider.
- Set end time from media player:
Changes the ending time for this row
to be that of the current position of the slider.
- Unset caption time:
Clears the start time for the row.
- Unset caption end time:
Clears the end time for the row.
- Go to caption time in media:
Adjust the video time to that of the
row. In other words, the scroll bar will adjust to the time of the row,
which can be useful for achieving exact synchronization.
- Find caption time from media:
Checks the slider for its time
and will determine which row that time falls into (ultimately highlighting
a row). Moving the slider to the right will select a later row, while
moving it left will select an earlier row.
- Insert new row below selected row:
Useful for when you accidentally
skipped a caption, and need to shift down all the other rows.
- Delete selected rows from table:
Removes captions from the table.
- Move selected row up/down:
Re-adjusts the order of the caption.
- Insert captions from file:
Insert captions from a file at
the specified row, potentially shifting other existing captions down.
This option is useful if your captions are separated into multiple files.
- Segmenting:
Refer to Segmenting Captions for more information.
Once you are happy with the synching of the captions, it is time to
publish your work.
To publish in MAGpie:
- Go the the File menu, then select Save or Save As.
- Save the project in the same directory as the media files in the project.
- Go to the "Export" menu.
- Select the kind of file you wish to save as (either QuickTime SMIL, Real-Player
SMIL, or Windows Media Player SAMI).
To edit after publishing:
- Open the MAGpie project that needs to be edited.
- Make the appropriate changes.
- Go to the "Export" menu.
- Select the kind of file you wish to save as (either QuickTime SMIL, Real-Player
SMIL, or Windows Media Player SAMI).
The next page offers a Lab for
Media Access Generator (MAGpie) to facilitate a better understanding of
the techniques involved in using this video editing software and its captioning
capabilities.
College of Architecture (COA)
Video
Synch/Publish in MAGpie
Image 32
Previous Page
