MAGpie Part 1 - Attach Time Codes

  1. Open MAGpie by double clicking the MAGpie icon.
  2. After startup screen, choose menu item File->New Project. This should open a dialog box.
  3. In the "Base Media" area of the dialog, click "Browse" to find the QuickTime video file, "CSUN2006.MOV". Look in the "csun2006" folder in the "MAGpie" folder.
  4. Click OK. The "Create New Project Track" dialog should appear.
  5. Leave the default for an American English caption track and click OK. The video window should appear (the first frame of the movie is the title frame).
  6. Choose menu item Captions->Insert Captions from File to open a dialog box. Select file "csun2006_captions_raw.txt" and click OK. The caption text should appear in the MAGpie working window.
  7. Save the project in the MAGpie folder with the file name "csun2006_captions_proj".
  8. Wait for presenter to describe the MAGpie interface (see below).

    9. [MAGpie screen shot] d

  9. Press the F9 key to insert 00:00:00 as the start time for the first caption to make it visible at the start of the video.
  10. Be ready to begin video playback using play button. See the graphic below. Use the GREEN play button, the middle of the three play buttons.

    11. MAGpie toolbar

  11. Now press the play button to play the video; insert caption sync points using the F9 key. At the point a caption should appear in the caption area, press F9. A time code should appear in the time code cell and the cursor should move to the next caption text.
  12. Insert time codes to the end of the video.
  13. Save the project (menu File->Save).
  14. Replay video to check your timings. If your timing is off, you can click on the line to change, replay the video to the correct place, and press F9 to insert the correct time code. To be more accurate, you can pause the video at the correct time and then press F9.
  15. Save the project.
  16. You may want to make the "[Applause]" line disappear to show no sound is coming from the video. Click on line 3. At the menu, select Captions->Insert New Row Below Selected Row to create a blank row in row 4. Make sure row 4 is selected. Play the video to a place where where the caption should be erased and press F9. Play the video to check your timing.
  17. Save the project.

MAGpie Part 2 - Export Files

    For QuickTime:

  1. Choose menu item Export->QuickTime SMIL 1.0 format.
  2. If all goes well, you should get a dialog confirming export of both QuickTime text file and SMIL file. Note the save location. It should be in the MAGpie project area where you saved your project. Click OK at the dialog box.
  3. If you get "Export Error" you probably have a time code out of sequence.

    4. For Windows Media Player:

  4. Choose menu item Export->Windows Media Player - SAMI format
  5. If all goes well you get a dialog confirming export of the SAMI file. Again, note the save location. Click OK at the dialog box.
  6. If you get "Export Error" you probably have a time code out of sequence.
  7. You can now open the exported files using a text editor (TextEdit on Mac). Navigate to the folder where you saved your project file, probably the MAGpie folder in the presentation folder. Look at the Index file for the workshop CD. You can compare your output files with the MAGpie output files under Demonstration on the Index page. Compare files "Caption file for QuickTime" and "SAMI file for Media Player".

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