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CAPTION MACHINE v1.00
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by Andrew Ives 1993
This program is freely distributable. You may copy this program
but all textfiles must remain intact and along with the main
executable program. You can use this program on any video, film
or whatever with no credit to the author.
This program may be included on a PDCD if you wish, but
I would like to be informed. It can also be used on a magazine
coverdisk, but again I would like to know.
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About the program:-
After using Dpaint for all my DTV captions, I began to realise
that this wasn't really the way to do it. Seeing as Scala and
other pro-video programs were beyond my pocket, I decided to
write an easier/quicker way of doing it.
Although you could do anything Caption Machine does on Dpaint,
it would take some loading and you would probably accidentally
tape the menu or something.
Using the program:-
This version of Caption Machine has 5 caption pages. On these
pages you can type your caption (up to 54 characters over 3 lines).
When doing this, you can change the colours, foreground and
background, the backing - 0%, 50% and 100%, the font, the
position and also the outline around the whole caption.
All of these attributes are stored along with the text in memory.
When you change between these pages, these attributes will
automatically change back to their settings. This is so that
all 5 captions don't have to be the same colour/place/font etc.
Everything can be clicked on by the left mouse button to toggle
its contents. Alternatively, everything but the colours, can
be activated by pressing a key which is highlighted in red on the
panel. From the main panel, pressing space will give further
instructions in more detail.
A Quick Rundown -
P - "P"lay
C - Position "C"hange: top, middle or bottom.
T - "T"ype in a caption, ESCape escapes.
All the regular keys then type. <- backspace
deletes, comma and full stop work, * on the
keypad is a special char from the particular
font you are using and ENTER on the keypad is !.
SEE NOTE BELOW
S - "S"waps over the background/foreground colours.
^Up vDown - Moves the fonts up and down through the 10
built-in fonts.
<left >right - Moves through the pages. The number is in the
bottom right and the red triangles next to it
can be clicked on with the mouse to duplicate
this keyboard command.
F1-F5 - Changes directly to page 1-5.
0 - makes backing 0%
5 - makes backing 50%
1 - makes backing 100%
G - "G"enlock sync on and off. Press this if your
screen is rolling.
O - "O"utlines on and off. This draws a border around
your whole caption.
The six triangles above and below the colours are for clicking on
with the mouse, to change the RGB values of the fore/background
colours. This is the only way to do this (I didn't know which keys
to use)
NOTE: During (and only during) type mode, pressing * on the keypad
gives an asterisk (or special character) from the font you are
using. ENTER on the keypad is for exclamation mark. This is all
stated on one of the information pages shown by pressing space.
What this doesn't say however, is that A600 (no-keypad) owners
can press apostrophe (top-left, below ESC) instead of * and
also the real return key instead of Enter on the keypad.
Anyway, all of this is quite obvious and doesn't need to be
remembered from this list. You should find it easy and quick to
use.
DURING PLAY:-
When playing, the function keys 1-5 display captions 1-5 while
space clears the screen. You should press each one to see if
everything is correct before recording your video. It is easy
to accidentally hit one of the mouse gadgets on exit and not
notice. ESCape exits from play mode.
FURTHER DETAILS-
You should find that playing your video over the blue (col0) screen
in play mode is perfectly still and pressing F1-5 will bring your
caption up instantly over your film. Press G on the menu if it
rolls.
[On Dpaint, pressing J only swaps between 2 screens,
and using an anim would take 10 pages to do what Caption Machine
does. Also, jumping between captions4 then 1 then 3,2 and 5 and
3 again would be impossible in Dpaint without getting some rubbish
up you don't want recording. Otherwise you will have to stop your
video again and that is an annoyance you can do without. I know.
This was written to do "Lap 1", "Lap 2" etc over a film, without
stopping the video every five minutes.]
Look out for further updates to this program. There are likely
to be at least a few more versions, when I get around to writing
them. I have an enhanced version for my use which you can get
from me by sending me 5 disks of PD (AGA/HAM pictures, CGfonts,
game demos, anything like that - bearing in mind I have an A1200.)
Like I say though, this is my version, and I have written it
especially for my A1200 (although no AGA bits), so if you have
some different Amiga, don't come crying to me if it's incompatible.
It should work if this version works, but you never know.
My version has more fonts and pages, and perhaps will have more
features by the time you read this. PD to the following address:-
Andrew Ives,
4 Sandpiper Close,
Haverhill,
Suffolk.
CB9 0JH.
PS If you wish you had some great font you've drawn available on
Caption Machine, send it to me as shown on ExampleFont.Lo2 on this
disk, and when you send me 5 PD disks as above, I will incorporate
it into the program for you. You can send me up to 4 if you want.
These will be added to the fonts already in it. You won't lose any.
NOTE: You can only have , . ! and one more for punctuation. All
are 16 x 16, but the actual letters should be 15x15 or they will
join together when typed in words. Also, I may want to use your
font in further versions, so say so if you don't want me to.