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734Final Cut Pro User Guide
• Add captions to the export: In the Captions section, select the caption formats you
want to export, then click the Timing pop-up menu and choose an option:
• Relative: Calculate the caption start time by subtracting the project’s start time.
• Absolute: Use each caption’s actual start time, regardless of the project’s start
time.
Final Cut Pro will create a separate “sidecar” caption file for each language subrole
in the selected caption formats and place the files in the same folder as the exported
MXF file.
For information about adding captions to your project, see Intro to captions in
Final Cut Pro and Create captions in Final Cut Pro.
• Save a preset: Click the “Roles as” pop-up menu and choose Save As in the Presets
section.
11. Click Next, choose a location for the exported files, then click Save.
You can monitor the progress of the transcode in the Background Tasks window, and you
can continue to work in Final Cut Pro while the file is transcoded.
When transcoding is complete, a notification appears. You can view and locate shared
projects in the Share inspector. See
View the status of shared items in Final Cut Pro.
For more information about creating MXF files, see Create a multi-channel MXF file with
Final Cut Pro.