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From: L Snider
Date: Sep 8, 2015 11:41AM

Hi Jay,

Thanks! Luckily in this case, it is just one speaker on screen and the
other is off screen! Having them both in one frame would have been
interesting, must be much tougher to get that right.

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Wyant, Jay (MNIT) < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Lisa,
>
> DCMP's Captioning Key may provide you a good reference:
> http://captioningkey.org/speaker_identification.html
>
> In some instances, if the speakers are on the left and right of the
> screen, you can move the captions (referenced in the link as "placement")
> by justifying to left and right. But take care not to create a ping-pong
> effect, and preferably retain name identification.
>
> Jay
>
>