Thread Subject: Re: teitac-video Captioning Definition

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From: Jagbell
Date: Thu, Mar 15 2007 1:05 PM

Producers need to stop thinking of the lower 1/3 as available real
estate. :) The Producers would never put "important video content"
across someone's face so nor should they captions. It is also very
hard on someone's eyes to have captions bouncing around the screen.
Also, the person who requires the captions is typically not in the
room by themselves so it also irritating to others in the room. Let
Producers move the important content around the captions. :)

Janice
Janice L. Schacter
Executive Director
Deafness Research Foundation

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On Mar 15, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:

> Can you explain your thinking behind this? It seems that there are
> times where there is important content that appears at the bottom
> of the
> video display screen so it is important for the captions to not
> overlap
> this content. Similarly, the important video content in the
> program may
> require captions moving up above the bottom third in order to ensure
> that the caption and the video are not conflicting with each other.
>
> It seems that what you are concerned with (and rightly so) is caption
> quality. Captions shouldn't be covering important content is one
> specific requirement that might be possible to introduce somewhere in
> the standards, but limiting captions to only appear in the bottom
> third
> will result in issues for users.
>
> AWK
>
>> 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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