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Musical notes

Captions often feature a little musical note to indicate that a song is playing in the audio track.  How do you add this note using Amara, and is this symbol preserved in the srt file? 

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Hi Matt,

There are Unicode key combinations to produce these notes, which you'll find in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_note and yes, the result is preserved in the .srt file.

But  as I make lots of typos, rather than using the key combination, I just copy the symbol from that Wikipedia page and past it in the subtitles. Like this: ♪.
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Great, thanks Claude!  And for others following this thread who are fellow Mac users, I found this clear explanation online of how to set your system up to use Unicode: http://www.poynton.com/notes/misc/mac-unicode-hex-input.html

Thank YOU for the Unicode tutorial, Matt.

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Claude

 

To give the suggestion of music, using either one or two quarter notes (with a bar) I created an AutoCorrect shortcut for each of them and used as appropriate. Using this has seemed to be more -- aesthetic.



 Thanks a lot, Alan - this is a very cool solution.

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