iCaption 4+

Okay. Well, it works fine on my Mac Book Pro, but doesn't work on my Mac Pro. They both have Lion OS, so I don't know what to make of this development. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app on the Mac Pro, without success. But when it works, it does a nice job.

I teach a class where being able to put captions on video clips is essential. In the past I've used Inqscribe. I bought this because I thought students might like less expensive.
However, when I tried it I had a terrible time. It doesn't seem possible to easily move around by sliding through the bottom the way you can in Movie Player. I found setting start and end points cumbersome. I probably didn't understand its interface but I kept having to go back to the beginning to play through to try and pause on an end point. I imagine this would get better if I used it more but it didn't have the clean, transparent way of moving through the clip that I expected.
Inqscribe exports a self-contained move with the captions wherever you want (I typically put them under the clip) and you can adjust font and size, etc. (though you can't add bold or italics). iCaption produces a separate file that you have to load with you clip into your movie player (I use QuickTime Player 7). I couldn't figure out how to do this. Again, there is probably a clear simple way but I gave up.

For the past several days I have been frantically searching for a usable subtitling program for Mac. Nothing I downloaded worked at all. I even created my own spreadsheet which, at least, did the job, but it was cumbersome to use. Then, just about two hours ago, I searched FreeCode (the successor of FreshMeat, for those who might remember that). After some fiddling, I suddenly saw iCaption for the first time. I was directed to the Apple App Store, and within about 15 minutes I was fixing the errors in my prior, not-very-accurate .srt file.

This program just makes it easy and fun. Thanks to the author for doing such a great job on this.

My only suggestion is to get the word out, somehow or other, because I needed this badly and it took too long to find.

Wait, I do have one other suggestion: Like Play, Preview could turn into a Stop or Pause button while video is running. That way I could stop the preview without having to look at the screen or move my mouse.

Good luck, and I will make a donation.