MAGpie - 2.0

Pros: Not many. It's free. It's commendable. MAGpie works and it can move your client's media projects into the 21st century be providing captioning or audio descriptors. Lots of text formatting options and, once you make the huge effort to understand how it works, MAGpie will handle most of the caption segmentation for you.

Cons: A sloppy port from a Windows SDK, MAGpie looks and feels like it was developed by a committee of doctorate candidates who felt they had to creaate everything from scratch using only what they could remember from the good ol' days of DOS. The interface and operation follow no known paradigms; it's a complete disaster that no Macintosh OSX fan will ever want to use.

Open MAGpie at your peril. Useful and free, it is also inexusably frustrating and dull.
The output consists of two files but you will also need the original movie file so the output is really three files. One is an .smil file (that QT will not recongize until you manually truncate it to an .sml file). The other is a qt.txt file. When you open the .sml into QT Player, it marries the original QT movie file with the text file and dislays the text as an extension below the regular window.
Magic? Yes, but a waste of time for most media situations because, try as hard as could with QT Pro and Cleaner, the married files cannot be exported as a single, composited movie.

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