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Version 7.0.7 Release Notes

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About This Release

iMacCapition version 7.0.7 supports Desktop, Pro, and Enterprise licenses provided by

Telestream.

iUsers with Mac OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) or older will need to upgrade to Mac OS version 10.11 (El Capitan) or later to use all features of this version of MacCapition. iUsers who are upgrading from version 6.0 or previous versions of MacCapition should take a brief look at the User Manual, Quick Start Guide and video tutorials to learn about the latest changes to the user interface. We hope you ifind these improvements useful and we welcome your conitinued feedback on the changes. iNOTE: Please test before upgrading your producition environment, especially if you're in the middle of any projects. It is always advisable to test the new version before updaiting your producition systems. Telestream can provide you with a limited license in order to conifigure and qualify this new release in a test environment prior to upgrading your producition systems.

Installation Instructions

iMacCapition Installaition and Acitivaition Instrucitions: htttp://www.telestream.net/capitioning/resources.htm (see under Documentaition) iTo use the Auto Time Stamp (ATS) feature, you must install a version of Java that is compaitible with your Mac OS version. There are two opitions (please pick one): oBest soluition - download "Java JRE 8" or "Java JRE 10" from Oracle ( htttp://www.java.com ). You can use either the "JRE" or "JDK" versions of Java 8 or 10. Java 9 is not supported. oEasiest soluition - download this update from Apple: htttp://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572 This works ifine for Auto Time Stamp, however, it installs Java 6 which is an older version of Java and is no longer maintained by Apple.

System Requirements

iOperaiting System: oMac OS 10.11 (El Capitan)

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MacCaption oMac OS 10.12 (Sierra) oMac OS 10.13 (High Sierra) iNote: When running MacCapition on MacOS update 10.13.4 or later, you will see the message "MacCapition is not opitimized for your Mac. This app needs to be updated by its developer to improve compaitibility." the ifirst itime you open a new version MacCapition, even if you are using the most recently released version of MacCapition. This issue will not afffect the use or performance of MacCapition at the present itime. This message will only appear once, and can be safely dismissed. No further acition is required and you can conitinue using MacCapition as usual. For more informaition, please refer to the ariticle "MacCapition compaitibility warning atfter installing Mac OS 10.13.4 update" in the MacCapition KB knowledge base. oNote on Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave): Currently, we have conducted a limited amount of tesiting of MacCapition 7.0.7 using macOS Mojave, and we have not found any major problems, however our tesiting is not yet complete. As always, we do not recommend making major changes such as OS upgrades if you are in the middle of a capitioning project, and you should always make a full system backup in case anything goes wrong atfter the upgrade. If you run into any problems, please contact our support team and provide details so we can invesitigate. iIntel Processor iQuickTime 7.6 or later i2GB RAM i5GB free hard disk space iMinimum screen resoluition: 1280x720 (720p) iOne free USB port (only if using a dongle based license) iInternet access required for Timed Text Speech (transcripition) and some online features iAuto Time Stamp requires Java Runitime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) version 6, 7, 8, or 10.

Fixed in Version 7.0.7

iFixed a crash that could occur when running Auto Transcripition (MACCAP-1841) iFixed "Save Project" was someitimes grayed out unitil you ifirst did a Save As (MACCAP-1840) iFixed "Save Project" would default to the locaition "Macintosh HD" (the root directory) which is a read-only directory, instead of the user's Documents folder (MACCAP-1838)

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MacCaption iFixed some Save or Export dialogs would not properly add the default ifile extension such as .cca for project ifiles or .mp4 for video ifiles, etc. (MACCAP-1837) iFixed a crash when exporiting Cheetah ASC using speciific source projects (MACCAP-1848) iFixed a crash when imporiting certain project ifiles (MACCAP-1839) iFixed changes to start, end, or duraition itimes were not saved if you clicked out of the cell to another itime code cell (MACCAP-1847) iFixed an issue where the MacCapition 7.0.6 install disk image (.dmg) was formattted using the APFS ifile system which could not be opened on macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) (MACCAP-1842)

New Features and Improvements in Version 7.0.5

iThe export "Movie with Combined Subititles" (burn subititles into a movie) has been completely rewrittten to use Telestream Media Framework technology. The export is faster and produces higher quality results than before. Addiitionally this export now works correctly on Mac OS 10.13 (High Sierra). You can export a movie with burn-in subititles to H.264 .mov or Apple ProRes

422 .mov formats. If you need to export a movie with burned-in subititles to a diffferent format,

you can transcode the results using Telestream Switch, Vantage, Telestream Cloud, or other video conversion tools. (MACCAP-1701) iAll TTML-based exports (e.g. IMSC, SMPTE-TT, etc.) now allow you to set the xml:lang language tag to indicate the subititle language in the header of the document, both in the GUI and CLI exports (MACCAP-789, MACCAP-570)

iSeveral operaitions that apply to a range of selected text cells now leave the cells selected atfter

the operaition, so you can perform mulitiple operaitions to the same range of cells (MACCAP-905,

MACCAP-1670 through 1680)

Fixed in Version 7.0.5

iFixed a crash when "Open last .cca ifile on program launch" was enabled, but the previous project ifile had been deleted (MACCAP-1767) iFixed disappearing words when using "Pull word up" in some cases (MACCAP-1739) iFixed exporiting SCC would be missing the clear command for the last capition (MACCAP-1765) iFixed a crash when exporiting to MCC with a 708 service number set to encode Program B (MACCAP-1804) iFixed a missing space between italic and non-italic text when imporiting DCP XML (MACCAP- 1753)

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MacCaption iFixed some capitions were missing posiitioning informaition when imporiting from a CCA ifile (MACCAP-1752, MACCAP-1667) iFixed imporiting capitions from certain customer-provided .TS ifiles was returning an error message (MACCAP-1668) iFixed a crash which only occurred in Mac OS 10.13 when closing the MacCapition project window atfter making changes (MACCAP-1790) iFixed using "Pull word up" will no longer allow a roll-up capition to exceed 32 characters (MACCAP-1606) iFixed a crash when exporiting to MCC with two languages enabled in 608 (MACCAP-1771,

MACCAP-1778)

iFixed CC3 capitions were someitimes delayed more than necessary due to 608 bandwidth limitaitions (MACCAP-1772) iFixed imporiting MCC V2 with 59.94 DF itimecode was imporiting as NDF (MACCAP-1758) iFixed the itimecode duraition ifield was displaying as HH:MM:SS:FF when clicked, instead of SS:FF (MACCAP-1757) iFixed a crash when using the ATSC DTV 608/708 export (MACCAP-1746)

iFixed seièitièing the subititle drop shadow angle was seièitièing the correct angle but did not sitick in the

UI (MACCAP-1742)

iFixed import of TTML ifiles using % for the font outline size now imports the correct relaitive size

(MACCAP-1705) iFixed imporiting MacCapition CCA project ifiles would someitimes change the current selected program to Program F (MACCAP-1644) iFixed using Undo would not undo some capition posiitioning changes (MACCAP-1504)

New Features in Version 7.0

iTimed Text Speech & Transcripition Mode - Automaitic Transcripition using speech-to-text technology The Timed Text Speech feature in MacCapition will create a text transcript of speech in a video and populate it directly into the capitioning project with the correct itiming.

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MacCaption The Transcripition Mode can be used to rapidly ifind and correct any mistakes in the transcript, whether it comes from Timed Text Speech or any other text that you have loaded into the project. MacCapition uses the Timed Text Speech service of Telestream Cloud to analyze the audio track of a video ifile and transmit text and itiming informaition directly into the text edit cells as it becomes available. Timed Text Speech currently works with English, French, Brazilian

Portuguese, and Spanish language video content.

Timed Text Speech processing operates from servers in Telestream Cloud. You need to set up a Telestream Cloud account to use Timed Text Speech, and when using Timed Text Speech, MacCapition must be connected to the Internet in order to create the transcript. Only the audio porition is transmittted to Telestream Cloud, so your Internet speed only needs to accommodate that scope of ifile size. For more informaition on how to use Timed Text Speech & Transcripition Mode, please refer to the Quick Start Guide and the User Guide available via the Help menu in the sotftware.

Known Issues in 7.0.6

iWhen using Timed Text Speech on Mac OS 10.11 or older, and Safari has not been updated to the latest version, opening links to the Telestream Cloud website may result in a blank or broken

page. This can be ifixed by updaiting to the latest version of Safari or by switching to a diffferent

default web browser (e.g. Chrome, Firefox). (MACCAP-1574) iWhen running at the minimum 1280x720 or lower screen resoluition, some UI controls may not be visible on the screen, for example the buttton at the botttom of the screen which toggles between Capition and Subititle mode. You can sitill toggle between capition/subititle modes via the Display menu. iWhen using a Macbook with a 13" Reitina display with the display set to "Larger Text" (larger than normal scaling), the efffecitive screen resoluition is lower than 1280x720 and thus does not meet the minimum screen resoluition requirement for running MacCapition. This can be ifixed by

going to System Preferences > Display, and seièitièing the resoluition to "Best for display." Another

opition is to use an external monitor that meets the minimum required screen resoluition. iWhen imporiting certain EBU-STL ifiles containing right-to-letft Hebrew, text may import number sequences in right-to-letft order (opposite of intended) resuliting in reversed numbers. (MACCAP-1048)

iWhen using Ruby subititle formaièitièing, languages other than Japanese are not oiÌifiÌicially

supported. (MACCAP-1023)

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MacCaption iUsing the "Add to File" export only works with input .MOV target ifiles that are on HFS+ formattted local storage devices or AFP mounted network shares. Using Add to File on ifiles stored on non-Apple network shares or other types of storage systems may result in invalid outputs. (MACCAP-1029) iWhen using the Ruby annotaition dialog window, cut/copy/paste of Ruby annotaition text does not work using keyboard shortcuts. The workaround is to right-click with the mouse or trackpad and use the context menu to cut/copy/paste. (MACCAP-1059) iWhen copying and pasiting a block of capition cells, MacCapition may paste the previously selected text content of the system clipboard. Users must specify the inserition point by changing focus to the Text Panel itself (EX. Click below the itimecode ifields) and not the Text (Ediiting) Cell within the panel. See p.31 of the User Guide for Text Panel details. (MACCAP- 1067)
iWhen in Display as Capitions mode and using the default display font, music notes that are italicized will appear in italics in the movie preview area, but may appear as un-italicized in the text ediiting area. This is because the default display font for the text ediiting area does not include an italicized version of the music note character. A workaround is to change the display font via Display > Font. Changing this display font only afffects the text ediiting area of the MacCapition window; it has no efffect on the capition/subititle font used for rendering the preview display or for exports. (MACCAP-1041) iImporiting subititles TTML ifiles when in Display as Capitions mode causes MacCapition to atttempt

to re-format the subititles to ifit closed capitioning rules (e.g. max of 32 characters per line). To

prevent unwanted reformaièitièing of the subititles, please switch to Display as Subititles mode prior

to imporiting a subititles TTML ifile. (MACCAP-1247, MACCAP-1292) iDisconneciting a disk while MacCapition is wriiting to it during an export may cause MacCapition to crash or stop responding. If exporiting to a network shared folder or removable hard drive such that the drive could become disconnected during export, it is recommended to save your project prior to export to avoid any potenitial loss of data. (MACCAP-1127) iMacCapition does not support imporiting, exporiting, or previewing projects with itime codes greater than 24 hours or which roll over from 23:59:00:00 to 00:00:00:00. You will need to manually treat the segment up to 23:59 separately from the segment atfter 00:00. (MACCAP- 1155)
iWhen imporiting and exporiting IMSC 1.0 Subititles, font outlines are limited to 10% of the base font size per the speciificaition. Font outline sizes larger than 10% will be truncated to 10%. (MACCAP-1228)

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MacCaption iWarning: The "Encode 708 capitions for 16x9" opition in Capition > Encode Preferences is intended only for tesiting consumer TV sets and set-top box hardware. This opition should not be selected when delivering to professional broadcast mechanisms and faciliities. (MACCAP-1310)

iWhen seièitièing a capition horizontal posiition and then clicking in the itime code ifield to edit the

itime code, pressing Undo will not undo the change to horizontal posiition. (MACCAP-1504) iUsers have reported that MacCapition cannot embed capitions into XDCAM .MXF ifiles created in Vantage with the opition "Preserve SMPTE 436 Ancillary Data Track" in the MPEG-2 secition of the Flip XDCAM encoder" enabled. Workaround: Transcode the ifile in Vantage without this opition enabled and then insert capitions using MacCapition; or, perform the capition inserition using Vantage instead of MacCapition. (MACCAP-1500) iWhen exporiting SMPTE-TT with PNGs and a movie is loaded in the preview window, the resoluition of the movie will be used to set the SMPTE-TT document extent, even if a diffferent resoluition was speciified in the Subititle Resoluition drop-down menu. Workaround: If you need to export SMPTE-TT with PNGs with a diffferent resoluition than the open movie, you can close the movie prior to export and select the desired Subititle Resoluition via the drop-down menu, or, load a movie which is the same resoluition that you want to export. (MACCAP-1535)

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