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Sunday, December 10, 2006

Subtitling and Captioning

Some people may wonder why I list subtitling companies as well as captioning companies. The answer is simple: there is little difference. Subtitling software will frequently support closed captioning also. The skills involved are the same - putting words on the screen. For a prospective customer seeking open captioning services, a company that does subtitling probably could do the work.

Including subtitling services providers greatly expands the pool of potential services to select from when doing competitive shopping for captioning services.

2 Comments:

Joe Clark said...

You really shouldn't encourage the misapprehension that subtitling and captioning are so similar that subtitlers can do captioning and vice-versa.

These subtitlers doing open captioning you envisage – won’t they just use invariant bottom-centre positioning, limit titles to two lines no matter what kind of editing it requires, and leave out speaker IDs and non-speech information? In other words, won’t they simply impose their subtitler ideology on the separate field of captioning, which they look down on anyway?

3:15 PM  
Actos said...

nice post, it's really interesting for me today, thx

12:48 PM  

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