TABLE OF CONTENTS
Shortcuts
Meta's Online Editor comes with a comprehensive list of available keyboard shortcut commands available via the Options/Shortcuts menu.
There are a set of default shortcuts already assigned but you can customise these and add new ones. By assigning commonly used functions to shortcuts, users can save time navigating through the different modules and functionalities, thus reducing the need to constantly switch between the keyboard and mouse.
For more details, see: Keyboard Shortcuts - Overview, Keyboard Shortcuts - Detail
Preferences
Opens a screen which has various default and user definable settings for the operation of the software.
Please note, certain values can be toggled between Seconds and Frames:
Basic
Show toolbar - Shows a formatting toolbar at the top of the software
Default Time Input Focus Field – Select whether seconds or frames should be the default editable field within the time field.
Text appearance - Allows you to choose editing text size for various fields
Player
Update player on active title – Choose whether this is active or not. Active as default
Lead time for play active title function - Set the desired video pre-roll amount
Playback speed - Set the default video play speed
Subtitle Preview position - Set the percentage height from the bottom of the screen. For preview only, has no impact on final positioning.
Subtitle Preview Size - The size text appears in the Player
Subtitle Preview Style - Options for viewing text in the Player
Subtitle Preview Field - The text editing field which will display in the Player
Audio preview - Will play a predefined section of audio whenever you go to the next title
Audio preview time - The amount of time audio preview is played
Edit
Update edit module on preview – True as default
Edit Mode - Choose how the list behaviours. Sticky List - fixed position of the active title or standard List with no fixed position..
Display italic text in blue - Choose if italicised text is displayed in blue. This is to aid visibility as to which text is italicised. True as default
Spellcheck - Choose if spellcheck function is active or not.
Show Duration - Choose if the subtitle duration is displayed.
Show Open - Choose if the 'Open' check box is visible within each Subtitle. To be used for quick reference for any subtitles that you may wish to come back to, or have outstanding comments associated.
Black background - The colour of the text editing module background. Black background with white text or white background with black text.
Align text - ‘False’ will align the text to the left and ‘True’ will align the text centre within the editing module
Switch between add-title and add-title-after. if called subsequently
Default duration of title - choose the default duration of any new subtitles that are added.
Default focus field - Choose between Text, second text or none.
Focus behaviour: place caret at start or end of text - This relates to where the cursor goes when you click in a title edit box.
Add-after end time calculation - maximum - The maximum difference of current media time to start time at which the Add-After function takes the player time as the outcue of new title.
Edit mode - ALL-STICKY keeps the Player, Timeline and Editing modules in sync
Fields – Choose what to show in the editing module
Autocorrection
Options for what should be active for autocorrection
For more details, see: Title Validation and Autocorrection
Timeline
Options for what is displayed, or hidden, on the Timeline
Title validation
Options to choose parameters for error checking etc.
For more details, see: Title Validation and Autocorrection
Privacy
Options for what to save for the next session.
Here you can choose to have the browser delete selected data. This can't be undone.
Info
Provides detailed information and data about the task you are working in