Thread Subject: Re: teitac-video Captioning Definition

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From: Jagbell
Date: Thu, Mar 15 2007 12:15 PM

We need to include that they should appear in the lower third of the
screen.


On Mar 15, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Jasionowski, Tony wrote:

> AV Subcommittee,
> As we discussed yesterday, since "captioning" significantly impacts
> our
> AV subcommittee I pulled this "Captioning" definition from the
> Subpart A
> subcommittee for our review and comments rather than draft our own
> definition:
>
> "Captioning
> Captions are synchronized text display(s) of information that is
> presented on the screen in an audio format. Captions appear as written
> representation of onscreen audio narration or spoken dialogue,
> Captions
> are similar to subtitles, but also convey non-dialogue auditory
> information that is important to the video, such as on- and off-screen
> sound effects, music, and laughter that are synchronized with the
> images
> on the screen."
>
> Tony Jasionowski
> Panasonic
>

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