You'll need to get a text document manipulation software, Word, Pages, anything that's out there, for a simple text edit will suffice, anything that's gonna lay your words out that you can copy and paste, because the second thing you'll need is a piece of software called text wrangler, and that's free, for PC and Mac, and what it's going to do is, it's going to tailor your text so that you don't get any gibberish, any kind of stray ampersands, or anything along those lines put into your close caption. 